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Main Street America Insurance Exits Personal Lines
Main Street America Insurance said Thursday it will stop offering personal lines insurance in favor of a commercial lines strategy. The Jacksonville, Florida-based insurer founded about 100 years ago in Keene, New Hampshire said it is “tightening” its focus and … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreUnderwriters Wary of PFAS Amid ‘Superstorm’ of Litigation, Regulation
As litigation and regulation increase around per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), insurance underwriting is tightening across lines. Insurance professionals who specialize in PFAS say insurers are mandating coverage exclusions and, in some cases, declining to write liability policies at all … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreInvisalign Maker Reaches $27.5M Settlement of Consumer Antitrust Lawsuit
Align Technology, the maker of Invisalign clear teeth aligners, agreed to pay $27.5 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it entered an illegal antitrust conspiracy that drove up prices of aligners made by rival SmileDirectClub. The settlement would cover nearly … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreCrowdStrike VP Set to Testify to Congress on IT Outage
A senior member of CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.’s operations team is scheduled to appear before Congress to answer questions on the company’s global IT outage in July that disrupted industries around the world. In an advisory published on Friday, the House … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreCargo Theft Increases Heading into Labor Day Holiday, Report Shows
While workers are taking a break to celebrate a holiday that honors labor, crooks will be laboring to take advantage of that time off. Cargo theft activity typically spikes on the days preceding and following Labor Day weekend, according to … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreSunk Superyacht Likely to Cost Insurers At Least $150 Million, Experts Say
Insurers of the Bayesian superyacht that sank this month, killing tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and six others, could be on the hook for at least $150 million, according to the first estimates by industry experts. The British-flagged 56-meter-long (184-foot-long) yacht, … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreNTSB Report Faults Faked Trucking Company Logs in Fatal 2022 Bus Crash
A crash that killed three passengers on a party bus on a Virginia highway was caused by a fatigued truck driver working for a company that allowed its drivers to log excessive hours, a federal report concluded this week. The … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreCalifornia Advances Landmark Legislation to Regulate Large AI Models
Efforts in California to establish first-in-the-nation safety measures for the largest artificial intelligence systems cleared an important vote this week that could pave the way for U.S. regulations on the technology evolving at warp speed. The proposal, aiming to reduce … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreGM Must Face Big Class Action Over Faulty Transmissions
General Motors was ordered by a federal appeals court to face a class action claiming it violated laws of 26 U.S. states by knowingly selling several hundred thousand cars, trucks and SUVs with faulty transmissions. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreMusk and Tesla Beat Suit Over Promoting Dogecoin ‘Pyramid Scheme’
Elon Musk and Tesla Inc. won dismissal of a lawsuit claiming they pumped up the price of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin into a $258 billion “pyramid scheme.” Investors who lost tens of thousands of dollars investing in the token faulted Musk … Source: Claims Journal
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