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London Marine Insurers Widen High-Risk Zone in Mideast Gulf as Conflict Escalates
London's marine insurance market has widened the area in the Gulf it deems as high risk as the conflict in the Middle East escalates, according to an advisory issued on Tuesday. Guidance from the ...
Iran War Poses New Risk to U.S. Economic Resilience
A U.S. economy that has weathered a year of trade, immigration and other shocks now faces a new test likely to ratchet up uncertainty after President Donald Trump's decision to launch open-ended ...
How State Farm, USAA Boost Customer Retention: Historic Dividends
While competition in personal auto insurance is rising to levels high enough to dent customer retention at GEICO, a giant mutual insurer and a reciprocal exchange have both tapped into a ...
IIHS Seat Belt Calculator Shows How Improved Laws Could Boost Safety
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announced a new online tool that shows how specific changes to seat belt laws would affect belt use and fatality rates in each state. Using statistical ...
Delaware High Court Upholds Recent Corporate Law Overhaul
The Delaware Supreme Court upheld on Friday a 2025 law that overhauled the state's widely used corporate code to limit lawsuits against powerful business leaders, a measure that opponents had dubbed ...
Firefighter Warned Brush Fire Wasn’t Out Before Massive Palisades Blaze Ignited
A Los Angeles firefighter testified in a newly released deposition that he told colleagues the ground was still smoldering from a brush fire days before authorities say it reignited into the most ...
What Berkshire’s CEO Abel Said About Insurance
Berkshire Hathaway's chief executive had the unusual task of reporting lower 2025 underwriting and investment income for GEICO and other insurance and reinsurance operations in his first report to ...
AI-Generated Job Ads Discriminated Against U.S. Workers, Says Civil Rights Unit
The Department of Justice (DOJ) reported it has secured a settlement agreement with a Virginia information technology services firm that is says discriminated against U.S. workers by advertising jobs ...