Today's Headlines National President Barack Obama endorsed key elements of a U.S. flood insurance reform bill passed by the House in the tax and deficit plan he ... President Barack Obama on Monday proposed to end a ``direct payment'' subsidy that gives $5 billion a year to farmers regardless of need, ... Automakers, including Hyundai Motor Co. and Subaru recalled more than 800,000 cars and trucks last week for defects including faulty ... Jacksonville-based MedMal Direct Insurance Co. has launched MedMal Direct University. MedMal Direct provides all of its insureds unlimited ... Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) and CNA's Construction unit have partnered to advance industry best practices in the field of ... Congress is poised to pass yet another short-term extension of the federal flood insurance program, giving it more time to consider two ... Current and former BP executives and directors won dismissal last week of one of several U.S.-shareholder lawsuits filed over last year's ... In an indication that the market may be hardening, commercial insurance prices in aggregate increased by nearly 1.5 percent during the...  East Lloyd's London's Syndicate 3500 filed a notice on Monday, Sept. 19, to voluntarily dismiss its federal lawsuit against Saudi Arabia over ... C. V. Starr & Co. Inc. Chairman and CEO Maurice "Hank" Greenberg is scheduled to host a fundraising event in New York on Tuesday, Sept. ... A group of business owners in the Vermont town of Wilmington, devastated by Tropical Storm Irene, are going to raise recovery money with an ... A Massachusetts truck driver has been convicted of insurance fraud in New Hampshire for lying about damage to his truck, according to ... The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled in favor of an insurance company in a closely watched legal case involving global warming. The high ... An eastern Pennsylvania jury has awarded more than $23 million to a woman who lost portions of both legs to infection almost three years ... Business property insurer FM Global said Vice Chairman Ruud Bosman will retire in November after 40 years with the company. Upon Bosman's ...  Midwest The Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that a political subdivision is immune from liability if one of its police officers is involved in a ... Authorities in Michigan said firefighters in Flint responded to five fires at vacant buildings during 4-hour span over the weekend. The ...  Southeast Florida residents who have sinkhole insurance through the state-backed property insurer will not have to pay a proposed statewide average ... SeaWorld Orlando is fighting $75,000 in penalties from a federal job safety agency following last year's death of a trainer who was grabbed ... While calls to volunteer fire departments are on the rise, the ranks of these volunteers are dwindling in Middle Tennessee and officials ... Workers' compensation provider Berkley Net Underwriters has created a new south central sales region and named Kevin Foushee as director ... South Central A wildfire that began more than two weeks ago in Bastrop County is 95 percent contained, according to the Texas Forest Service. The area is ... The former controller for a Houston-based property/casualty insurance company has been sentenced to 120 months in federal prison for her ... The Texas Department of Insurance – Division of Workers' Compensation announced that the maximum weekly benefit rates for workers' ...  West Mike Fitzgerald has joined insurance run-off consulting firm Devonshire as vice president of business development. His responsibilities ... A Montana judge has approved a $43 million settlement for people sickened by exposure to asbestos from a mine, with a large part of that ... A civil settlement in the 2007 oil spill in San Francisco Bay with the owners and operators of the M/V Cosco Busan was announced on Monday. ... Kevin Cummings has been named executive vice president/producer and leader of Kansas City., Mo.-based Lockton's Phoenix office, and Tom ... International More ship insurers are backing the use of private armed guards on merchant vessels at sea to combat Somali piracy as attacks and the ... Standard & Poor's downgrading of Italian debt hit the euro on Tuesday, although stock investors shrugged off the move to push European ... "Models are never done – they're evolutionary," said EQECAT's president Bill Keogh in an interview at the Reinsurance Rendezvous in Monte ... A U.S. appeals court reversed an order freezing enforcement outside of Ecuador of an $18 billion damages award against Chevron Corp over ... Specialty insurer Torus has confirmed that it has "entered into an agreement with Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings Limited to acquire ... Whittington Group, the Singapore-based international insurance investor, announced it has reached a definitive agreement to sell its London ...  Join the Insurance Journal Network Insurance Journal TV  | During his 25-year career in the property/casualty insurance business, Ross Buchmueller has... |  | Lord Peter Levene talked to the IJ on his balcony at the Hotel de Paris. His reign as... |
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