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Kim Plant Miller, an independent specialist (re)insurance broker headquartered in London, appointed Kim Plant as head of North American property. Plant joins Miller from Amwins, where he served as a director in its North American property division from 2020, where he formed relationships across the North American Property market in both the U.S. and Canada. He began his insurance career in the Property team at Lockton in 2015, following 13 years of military service in the British Army’s Grenadier Guards. At Miller, Kim will be responsible for leading the business’s North American property proposition out of London and Bermuda, working…

The Travelers Companies, Inc. announced this week that engineers and data scientists have developed TravelersLLM, a proprietary large language model tailored to its property/casualty business. According to a media statement released by the insurer, TravelersLLM was trained on millions of company documents. TravelersLLM “amplifies Travelers’ leading domain expertise by, among other things, enhancing underwriting analysis, accelerating research and model development, facilitating access to decades of institutional knowledge and improving workflows,” the company statement said. The development of TravelersLLM reflects the company’s long-standing strategy of deploying advanced technology with proprietary data, the company said. As a core component within the company’s…

The organizations that ended up in music licensing disputes almost never saw it coming. They were operating on assumptions that seemed reasonable at the time. The music was available in the app, so it must be cleared. They had been doing it for years without a problem, so the practice must be sound. The platform said yes, so that must mean they were protected. None of those assumptions are written into the law. Why Commercial Music Is Available on These Platforms at All Before we get to the legal exposure, it helps to understand why commercial music is available on…

This edition of International People Moves details appointments at the insurers Everest Group and Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK). A summary of these new hires follows here. Everest Global Wholesale & Specialty Names 2 Key Leaders, Buonpane and Stewart Everest Group Ltd., the Bermuda-based re/insurer, announced two key leadership appointments within Everest Global Wholesale & Specialty (GWS), effective October 1. Steve Buonpane Stephen Buonpane has been appointed global head of Construction, GWS, reporting to Jason Keen, executive vice president and chief executive officer of Everest Global Wholesale & Specialty. In this newly created role, he will lead Everest’s global construction business,…

Miller’s Grill, Inc., a Washington, Missouri restaurant, will pay monetary damages to a former employee and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced. According to the EEOC’s suit, the restaurant’s owner, Larry Miller, sexually harassed a female manager, Lisa Kelley, in 2017, by brushing up against her, grabbing her around the waist; touching her buttocks; making lewd and sexual comments toward her; asking her to go out with him late at night; and asking her for sex. When Kelley ignored Miller or refused…

Miller’s Grill, Inc., a Washington, Missouri restaurant, will pay monetary damages to a former employee and provide other relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced. According to the EEOC’s suit, the restaurant’s owner, Larry Miller, sexually harassed a female manager, Lisa Kelley, in 2017, by brushing up against her, grabbing her around the waist; touching her buttocks; making lewd and sexual comments toward her; asking her to go out with him late at night; and asking her for sex. When Kelley ignored Miller or refused…

Zurich Insurance Group is launching a dedicated life science insurance offering from July 2026, expanding its established U.S. capabilities across key European markets: Belgium, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Zurich explained that the product is needed because life science companies are expanding internationally at an earlier stage to support clinical development and global commercialization, exposing businesses to multiple regulatory regimes and more complex operational and supply chain risks. “Life sciences companies operate in an environment of rapid innovation, regulatory complexity and evolving risks as they scale,” said Luciano Ciriná, CEO Commercial Insurance International,…

The mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, has accepted a $275 million bid to redevelop the Gas Plant District after the Tampa Bay Rays Major League Baseball team leaves Tropicana Field for new digs in Tampa. Florida news outlets reported that a city councilman and others said that Mayor Ken Welch has approved the Burg Bid, submitted by Blake Investment Partners. The proposal, to be formally announced Thursday, includes some 3,600 income-restricted housing units for senior citizens, the Tampa Bay Times and Florida Politics reported. Tropicana Field, the home of the Rays since 1990, was heavily damaged by Hurricane Milton in…

Fees for insurance producers, continuing education providers, premium finance companies and more are going up in Alabama for the first time in years if new regulations are approved. The Alabama Department of Insurance announced it will hold a hearing at 10 a.m. on Aug. 6 to hear stakeholders’ input about the higher fees, which could increase by 30% in some cases. The hearing will be at the DOI offices in Montgomery. The new fees are in keeping with statutes that require fees to keep pace with inflation. The biennial license renewal fee for producers and service representatives, for example, was…

Amwins announced the acquisition of Jackson-Lloyd, a specialist MGA dedicated to occupational loss protection. Jackson-Lloyd will join Amwins Specialty Casualty Solutions (ASCS), an MGA and specialty insurance program creator, strengthening its growing accident + health portfolio with a program that has defined the non-subscriber insurance market in Texas for more than three decades. Founded in 1989 in Longview, Texas, by industry veteran Thomas Lloyd, Jackson-Lloyd is widely regarded as a pioneer in non-subscriber occupational accident programs. The company provides employers with comprehensive, cost-effective alternatives to the traditional workers’ compensation system for non-subscribers in Texas Texas and exempted employers in Kanas.…