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This edition of International People Moves details appointments at W.R. Berkley Corp.’s Berkley Specialty London and Ariel Re. A summary of these new hires follows here. Berkley Promotes Enright as President of Berkley Specialty London, Succeeding Hastings W. R. Berkley announced the appointment of John Enright as president of Berkley Specialty London and chief executive officer of W. R. Berkley Syndicate Management Ltd., the Lloyd’s managing agent for W. R. Berkley Syndicate 1967, effective July 1, 2026, subject to regulatory approval. He succeeds James Hastings, who will continue to serve in a corporate role at Berkley and support the transition.…

Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 Security Technology has developed what it calls a domestic answer to Anthropic’s Mythos, it said on Wednesday, casting the U.S. model as a strategic cyber capability that China could not afford to lack. Mythos, previewed in April, is a system that detects software vulnerabilities, but cybersecurity ⁠experts have warned that it could supercharge cyberattacks. The U.S. this month ordered Anthropic to suspend exports of a less powerful version of the program, citing national security concerns. Speaking at the ISC.AI 2026 cybersecurity conference in Beijing, 360 founder Zhou Hongyi unveiled two AI security tools under the banner…

An attack on a container vessel sailing through the Strait of Hormuz has prompted some shipowners to review exit plans, but traffic continued to flow in both directions through the vital thoroughfare on Friday. Two fully laden tankers are heading out of the Persian Gulf, while four empty, inbound, very large crude carriers are among the vessels sailing along the Omani coast, ship-tracking data show. This southern route is managed by Oman and coordinated by the US. The strike on the Ever Lovely on Thursday — the first since an interim US-Iran peace deal was signed — has seen some…

A Massachusetts construction firm owner fraudulently misclassified subcontractors as siding workers or painters when they were performing riskier roofing work in order to avoid paying higher workers’ compensation premiums, according to the Massachusetts attorney general’s office (AGO). Massachusetts officials said that Edwin Santiago Bueno of Milford was indicted by a Worcester grand jury. He is scheduled to be arraigned in the Worcester Superior Court on July 14, 2026. By misclassifying his workers between June 2020 and May 2023, the owner allegedly evaded approximately $20,194 in workers’ compensation premiums owed to Ace American Insurance Co., which is administered by Travelers Insurance…

A Colorado grand jury indicted 11 defendants for taking part in an auto theft ring that reportedly targeted vehicles parked at municipal airports. Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and Denver District Attorney John Walsh announced the indictments this week on 52 counts for reported crimes that occurred between July 2024 and January 2025. It’s alleged that those indicted worked together to steal vehicles from municipal airport parking lots, nearby hotels and sometimes from businesses and residential areas in surrounding counties. Most of the stolen vehicles were full-sized pickup trucks, trailers, and recreational utility terrain vehicles. The stolen vehicles and trailers…

Orion180 Insurance has launched its FLEX homeowners insurance coverage in Colorado. FLEX Home Insurance is designed to give homeowners greater control over how they protect their property, allowing them to tailor coverage to fit their individual risk tolerance and budget. The product is powered by a hail and wildfire risk model built specifically for Colorado. The company’s underwriting and rating engine evaluates individual property characteristics to reflect actual risk exposure. Coverage A limits are available from $300,000 up to $2 million. Policyholders can select optional perils including wind, hail, tornado, and named storm coverage, as well as a variety of…

One person was killed and another injured in a fire at a mobile home in Woodstock, New Hampshire. According to officials, around 4:30 a.m. Thursday, June 25, 2026, members of the Woodstock Fire Department responded to Scenic View Drive after a 911 caller reported a home was on fire. When firefighters arrived, they found a single-wide mobile home actively on fire. Firefighters then learned that a neighbor had pulled an adult female from the home but was unable to rescue an adult male due to the growing fire. The female was transported by medical helicopter to a Boston-area hospital with…

Higginbotham, now ranked as the 16th-largest independent brokerage chain, has expanded into South Carolina with the acquisition of the well-known Turbeville Insurance Agency. Turbeville, founded in 1991 by William L. “Bill” Turbeville Jr., has 60 employees, with offices in Columbia, Lexington, Beaufort and Charleston, the companies said in a news release this week. It’s Higginbotham’s first foray into South Carolina, which Higginbotham considers to be one of the fastest-growing states. “A South Carolina presence has been our goal for a long time, and we didn’t want to tiptoe into it,” said Rusty Reid, chairman and CEO of Higginbotham. “Bill Turbeville…

The Trump administration on Wednesday reached a multi-state settlement with chemical giant Chemours Co. over years-long, illegal discharges of synthetic “forever chemicals” used to make products resistant to water, grease and stains. The settlement is the first by the federal government to resolve enforcement claims against a manufacturer of harmful chemicals known as PFAS. Under the agreement, filed in federal court in West Virginia, Chemours will pay a civil penalty of $22.5 million for alleged violations and spend $90 million over 15 years to mitigate PFAS discharges in three states: West Virginia, North Carolina and New Jersey. Chemours, a spin-off…

French oil major TotalEnergies must disclose the climate risks linked to emissions from its oil and gas products and set out plans to mitigate them, a Paris court ruled on Thursday. The ruling is a partial victory for climate change NGOs seeking to apply France’s 2017 corporate duty of vigilance law to climate change. However, the court stopped short of ordering specific measures such as limiting overseas exploration and production or setting binding emissions reduction targets. Climate litigation against oil majors has produced mixed results in recent years. A landmark Dutch ruling ordering Shell SHEL.L to cut emissions was later…