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Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro on Tuesday signed an executive order that would require companies setting up AI data centers in the state to meet environmental and transparency safeguards and secure local community approval for the projects. The state has become a sought-after location for data centers due to its abundant natural gas from the Marcellus shale basin, existing power infrastructure and proximity to major population centers on the East Coast. But opposition to the rapid build-out of data centers has steadily grown across the U.S. this year. A June Reuters/Ipsos poll found that only a third of Americans approved of…

There’s a flurry of construction in Pacific Palisades, more than a year and a half after a wildfire ravaged the Los Angeles enclave in the most destructive blazes in Southern California history. There’s also a lot of frustration. At the community’s core, the luxury Palisades Village shopping center reopens Saturday after a $100 million restoration by billionaire developer Rick Caruso, marking a milestone in the area’s recovery. Partially dressed mannequins stand in the A.L.C., Brunello Cucinelli and Elysewalker boutiques. The Erewhon has stocked fresh produce for its signature smoothies. The freezers are chilled at McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams. “It’s a…

The Alabama Supreme Court has opened the window a little wider into insurance carriers’ claims-handling procedures, not only requiring them to be made available in some lawsuits but also to be shared with plaintiffs’ lawyers in similar litigation. The high court’s decision, in a side issue in Foor vs. State Farm, tempered a lower court’s order requiring State Farm to share closely held and trade-secret information on how damage estimates are revised or reduced. The Bullock County Circuit Court’s 2025 decision, in a homeowners’ roof claim dispute, is the latest skirmish in the years-long, multi-state war of words between adjusters…

The North Carolina regulator who raised the first red flags about now-imprisoned insurance executive Greg Lindberg’s business practices has decided to retire after 30 years with the state Department of Insurance. Jackie Obusek, who has been chief deputy insurance commissioner since 2022, will step down Oct. 1. “I am grateful for the dedication Jackie has given the department for 30 years,” Commissioner Mike Causey said in a statement. “Jackie’s depth of financial experience and leadership will be missed.” Obusek Obusek joined the department in 1996 as a financial examiner before moving into regulatory leadership roles, the DOI said. She was…

Someone will have to pick up the tab for the damage wrought by Europe’s increasingly volatile weather, and with the bulk of those economic losses uninsured, that will be the public purse unless immediate action is taken. This year’s wildfires in southwestern Europe and the severe flooding that hit Spain in 2024 and Germany and its neighbors in 2021 show how climate damage is adding to a list of strains on Europe’s finances that already includes higher defense spending and rising costs associated with an aging population. “The problem is that they’re becoming more recurrent,” Federico Barriga-Salazar, head of Western…

A car crash that claimed the lives of five teenagers in Ireland early Sunday has raised police concerns about the role social media plays in dangerous driving incidents in the country. The teenage boys were driving in a car on the wrong side of a motorway outside Dublin when they collided head-on with another vehicle carrying three women and a boy, according to a statement by the Gardai, Ireland’s police service. Garda Commissioner Justin Kelly said Sunday that in some cases of reckless driving it is “being done for social media likes regardless of the potentially devastating impact it might…

David Duffy Guy Carpenter, a business of Marsh, appointed David Duffy as global property leader and Chris Ross as global casualty leader. Based in New York, Duffy and Ross will report to John Trace, CEO of North America and chief broking officer, Guy Carpenter. In these newly created roles, Duffy and Ross will mobilize Guy Carpenter’s best practices to deliver risk transfer solutions for clients in the property and casualty (re)insurance market. Chris Ross Duffy and Ross each have more than 25 years of experience across a range of macroeconomic and (re)insurance market conditions and have led some of Guy…

ZestyAI said it looked at tens of thousands of home, auto, and commercial property rate filings in all 50 states and found just how long regulator objections can hold up the approval process. About 44%, or 8,776, of filings analyzed drew at least one objection from a state regulator, adding a median of 38 days to the approval process and delaying an insurer’s application for what it thinks is an adequate rate. “Every month a filing sits in objection is a month the carrier is writing business at a rate it has already demonstrated is inadequate,” Bryan Rehor, senior director…

Luigi Mangione’s New York State murder trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, which was slated to begin Sept. 8, has been postponed indefinitely as his lawyers seek to have the case thrown out on double jeopardy grounds following his guilty plea last week to federal charges. Judge Gregory Carro issued an order Monday canceling the trial and giving the Manhattan District Attorney’s office, which is prosecuting the state case, until Oct. 9 to respond to the defense’s double jeopardy claims. A hearing will be held on Dec. 10, Carro said, about a week before Mangione is scheduled…

A federal judge in New York has dismissed a racketeering lawsuit by ride-sharing firm Uber against several injury law firms, doctors and pain clinics alleging they conspired to extract inflated auto insurance claims payments through staged accidents, unnecessary surgeries and lawsuits. Judge Orelia E. Merchant in Brooklyn ruled that Uber failed to show that the defendants were part of a conspiracy to defraud Uber and failed to plausibly allege injury, as required to prove a violation under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). In order for RICO claims to survive a motion to dismiss, a plaintiff must…