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Midwest Floods Kill at Least 30; Shut Down Oil, Agriculture and More
Deadly flooding across the U.S. Midwest is disrupting everything from oil to agriculture, forcing pipelines, terminals and grain elevators to close. The floods have killed at least 30 people and shut ...
Britain Faces More Extreme Weather, Rising Flood Costs
Torrential rain and gale force winds battered northern Britain on Wednesday, cutting power to thousands of homes and forcing some to evacuate flooded streets in the third major storm in a month. The ...
U.S. Industrial South Braces for Flooding From Five Separate Rivers
Brace yourself, U.S. South. The Mississippi River is coming, and so are the Arkansas, the Red, the Ohio and the Missouri. The water on the Mississippi River is already so high that Missouri closed ...
Huge Workers Comp Issue: Premium/Payroll Misclassification
Premium misclassification or payroll misclassification is a significant issue for the workers' compensation industry, according to Bret Shroyer, a solutions architect for Denver, Colo.-based Valen ...
$1.2 Billion: Insured Loss Estimate Thus Far From Dallas Tornadoes
Texas is dealing with approximately $1.2 billion in insured losses so far from 9 confirmed tornadoes that struck the metro-Dallas area on Dec. 26 and killed 11 people, according to preliminary ...
Cargill Will Sell Its Crop Insurance Unit
Cargill Inc. agreed to sell its crop insurance unit, the latest move by the giant U.S. agricultural commodity trader and producer to reshape its business amid low crop prices. The insurance operation ...
Mississippi River Floods Disrupt Shipping
Floods after heavy rain shut 5 miles of the Mississippi River, the biggest U.S. inland shipping channel, and waters were forecast to climb to record levels in parts of Missouri and Illinois later ...
Zurich Insurance and the Other Top News Stories of 2015
What's ailing Zurich Insurance? That question was the focus of Carrier Management's top news story in 2015, a piece that drew enormous reader interest. Switzerland's largest insurer faced plenty of ...