Archive for June 2026

Marsh & McLennan Agency has filed suit against brokerage Patriot Growth Insurance Services and eight former members of a surety team over an alleged poaching scheme. Filed early June in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York … Source: Claims Journal

Nashville residents will likely remember the massive fire—one year ago this week—that destroyed the downtown library’s parking garage, totaled dozens of vehicles, and left the library closed for months. Travelers Excess & Surplus Lines, which had provided a multimillion-dollar policy … Source: Claims Journal

Cumulative trauma claims have risen sharply in recent years and they are driving changes in claim characteristics, costs and claim outcomes, a new report shows. The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California’s Emerging Patterns of Cumulative Trauma Claims report … Source: Claims Journal

El Niño conditions are present and expected to strengthen into the Northern Hemisphere winter of 2026–27, the U.S. Climate Prediction Center said on Thursday. Related: CSU Adjusts Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast Due to Emerging El Niño The U.S. government forecaster … Source: Claims Journal

A South Korean regulator fined the country’s largest e-commerce platform, owned by U.S.-listed Coupang Inc., a record 624.7 billion won ($409 million) for a wide-ranging cyber-intrusion that escalated into a diplomatic tiff with the U.S. The Personal Information Protection Commission’s … Source: Claims Journal

Honda Motor America is recalling 1,049,883 vehicles in the United States due to a defect in the tire repair kit, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Wednesday. The issue involves a faulty sealant bottle, in which pressure can … Source: Claims Journal

Tesla on Tuesday said supervised full self-driving has been approved in Denmark, and the rollout will begin soon, marking another European country to recognize the electric vehicle maker’s autonomous driving technology. The company has been banking on self-driving to boost … Source: Claims Journal

A former engineer at Elon Musk’s xAI in California who now heads a think tank focused on AI safety filed a lawsuit claiming he was fired from the SpaceX subsidiary for raising concerns about the risks artificial intelligence poses to … Source: Claims Journal

Jonathan Rinderknecht has been wrongly accused of starting the most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles history, his lawyer told a jury. Rinderknecht was watching New Year’s Eve fireworks on a hillside in the Pacific Palisades and called 911 just after … Source: Claims Journal

A federal judge won’t disturb a $256 million jury verdict in a long-running libel and RICO lawsuit against a plaintiffs’ lawyer who had charged an Alabama coal company with human rights abuses in Colombia. “Defendants’ claim that the jury was … Source: Claims Journal