The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it plans to weaken limits on some “forever chemicals” in drinking water that were finalized last year, while maintaining standards for two common ones. The Biden administration set the first federal drinking water …
Christian Dior Couture has been hit by a cyberattack, with hackers obtaining some of its customers’ data. LVMH’s second biggest fashion label said it recently discovered that an “unauthorized external party” accessed some of its customers’ data but no financial …
At last week’s RIMS RISKWORLD conference in Chicago, experts from risk and claims administration partner Sedgwick outlined a few key workers’ comp trends.
Hackers had near-constant access to some of Coinbase Global Inc.’s most valuable customer data since January, according to a person familiar with the incident who asked not to be named discussing company matters. The largest US crypto exchange disclosed earlier …
Zurich North America announced key leadership changes within U.S. national accounts and underwriting as Heather Fox has been promoted to lead national accounts and Peter Caminiti was promoted to chief underwriting officer. Fox was most recently chief underwriting officer for …
David Richardson, the new head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said on Thursday that states would in the future bear half the costs for responding to natural disasters, up from 25% under current cost-sharing levels. Richardson, who took the …
Rep. Scott Fitzgerald on May 15 reintroduced a bill to eliminate the subpoena power of the Federal Insurance Office (FIO). The Insurance Data Protection Act was first presented by Fitzgerald, R-Wis., to the U.S. House of Representatives in September 2023. …
Coinbase Global Inc. said hackers bribed contractors or employees outside the US to steal sensitive customer data and demanded a $20 million ransom, in one of the most high-profile security breaches of a crypto trading platform. The largest US crypto …
Workers’ compensation remained a healthy and profitable line in 2024 but claims severity grew with an increase of 6% for medical claim severity and 6% for indemnity claim severity. That’s according to the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI)’s annual …
With combined ratios for personal and commercial lines landing only 0.4 points apart last year, the property/casualty insurance industry’s aggregate 2024 combined ratio was 96.5—marking the lowest figure since 2013, a new report shows. Fine-tuning a slightly higher industry aggregate …
