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Prime Insurance Announces Strategic Addition of Fernando “Fernie” Alvarez to Support High Net Worth & Excess & Surplus Lines Growth

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Prime Insurance Announces Strategic Addition of Fernando “Fernie” Alvarez to Support High Net Worth & Excess & Surplus Lines Growth

Salt Lake City, UT — Prime Insurance today announced the strategic addition of Fernando “Fernie” Alvarez as President, High Net Worth & Specialty Programs, supporting the continued growth of Prime’s High Net Worth and Excess & Surplus Lines business. Fernie brings extensive experience in specialty insurance program leadership, including the design and oversight of solutions […]

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Trump’s Rollback on Greenhouse Gases to Cause Confusion, Could Add Costs

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Trump’s Rollback on Greenhouse Gases to Cause Confusion, Could Add Costs

The Trump administration’s decision to overturn an Obama-era legal analysis underpinning greenhouse gas rules will sow confusion and add costs for businesses and investors alike, shareholder advocates and portfolio managers say. U.S. President Donald Trump, who has called climate change a “hoax,” plans on Thursday to formally rescind the 2009 scientific findings that tied carbon

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Smart AutoCare Names Murphy President

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Hundreds May Have Been Exposed to Rabies in Grand Teton National Park Cabins

Smart AutoCare, headquartered in Richardson, Texas, appointed Christopher Murphy as president. Murphy has over 20 years of executive leadership experience and a strong record of operational excellence across the automotive and technology sectors. He joins Smart AutoCare from OptionSoft Technologies, Inc., where he has served as president since 2019, leading strategic growth initiatives and advancing

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Canada Police Name 18-Year-Old Suspect in Shootings That Killed Nine

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Canada Police Name 18-Year-Old Suspect in Shootings That Killed Nine

The deceased suspect in a mass shooting that left nine people dead in a small town in western Canada was named as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, who was known to police. Officers found Van Rootselaar dead after the shooting on Tuesday afternoon at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School from what they believe was a self-inflicted wound.

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Re/Insurer Canopius Launches Natural Resources Team

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Re/Insurer Canopius Launches Natural Resources Team

Canopius, the international specialty and property/casualty re/insurer, has announced the creation of its consolidated Natural Resources team in response to market demand. The team encompasses energy, heavy industry and construction to better reflect how brokers in these classes allocate business. They write across upstream, midstream and downstream energy, as well as power and renewables, mining,

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Bus Crash Involving Iowa College Baseball Team Leaves One Dead, 32 Injured

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Hundreds May Have Been Exposed to Rabies in Grand Teton National Park Cabins

A bus carrying an Iowa community college baseball team crashed and overturned in a ditch on Wednesday, Feb. 11, killing one person and injuring 32 others onboard. The crash involved a bus carrying Iowa Lakes Community College baseball team and no other vehicles. Authorities said that shortly after 11 a.m. the bus went off the

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New Mexico Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Failing to Protect Children

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New Mexico Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Failing to Protect Children

Meta has failed to disclose what it knows about the harmful effect of its platforms on children in violation of New Mexico’s consumer protection laws, a state prosecutor said Monday as a trial began over the dangers of child sexual exploitation on social media. It’s the first stand-alone trial from state prosecutors in a stream

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California Smoke Damage Act Would Enable Wildfire Victims to Expedite Claims

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California Smoke Damage Act Would Enable Wildfire Victims to Expedite Claims

A bill touted as the nation’s first public health and insurance standards to protect families from toxic smoke contamination is making its way through California legislature. California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and Assemblymember Mike Gipson on Wednesday introduced Assembly Bill 1795, the Smoke Damage Recovery Act. Related: ‘Structural Shift’ Occurring in California Surplus Lines The

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Fingerprints, Background Checks for Florida Insurance Execs, Directors, Stockholders?

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Fingerprints, Background Checks for Florida Insurance Execs, Directors, Stockholders?

Florida insurance company officers, employees, board members and even stockholders would have to undergo background checks and fingerprinting under a wide-ranging bill approved by a state House panel Wednesday morning. House Bill 1263, sponsored by state Rep. Linda Chaney, R-St. Petersburg, would authorize the Office of Insurance Regulation to require insurers and proposed insurers to

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