Government
Investigations to Legislation: Florida Lawmakers Weighing Insurance Industry Changes
Florida legislative leaders, facing increasing pressure from the public and the press, last week pledged to investigate property insurers' financial structures. And bills filed before the 2025 ...
Tariffs Will Negatively Affect Insurance Industry, Says AM Best
Analysts at AM Best warned that the planned imposition of U.S. tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, along with increased tariffs on China, will have a negative effect on the insurance industry ...
Wildfire, Hurricane Rebuilding Efforts Impeded By Tariffs: APCIA
American Property Casualty Insurance Association issued a statement on behalf of P/C insurance company members on Tuesday, the day that 25 percent tariffs on most goods from Canada and Mexico took ...
Progressive’s Margins Leave Room for Tariff Impacts; Others Ready Too
With its 2024 combined ratio falling comfortably more than 7 points below a targeted level of 96, Progressive has room to deal with the impacts of tariffs on car repair and replacement costs, the ...
Trump’s Threat to EV Trucking Rules Undermines Big-Rig Bets
Two years ago, Rudy Diaz made a gutsy bet. The 45-year-old owner of Hight Logistics, a trucking company that hauls containers from the bustling ports around Los Angeles, began adding some of the ...
EEOC Seeks to Drop Transgender Discrimination Cases
Signaling a major shift in civil rights enforcement, the federal agency that enforces workplace anti-discrimination laws has moved to dismiss six of its own cases on behalf of workers alleging gender ...
Reintroduced Legislation Seeks to Scrap OSHA
Republican Congressman Andy Biggs reintroduced a bill last month that, if passed, would abolish OSHA. H.R.86 also known as the Nullify Occupational Safety and Health Administration Act or the NOSHA ...
Consumer Finance Watchdog Chief Tells All Staff to Cease Work
President Donald Trump's newly installed chief of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau told all of the agency's staff on Monday to stay away from the office and do no ...
Google Scraps Diversity-Based Hiring Targets
Alphabet's Google is scrapping its goal to hire more employees from underrepresented groups and is reviewing some of its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, ...