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After a chemical leak at the Ames Goldsmith plant in Kanawha County killed two workers and injured dozens more last month, federal investigators quickly arrived in West Virginia to begin piecing together what went wrong. Now, the federal agency tasked with determining the root cause of the accident could be eliminated. President Trump is proposing to cut funding for the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, a small federal agency that probes chemical disasters and pushes for safety fixes. Worker advocates and former CSB members warn dismantling the agency could leave states like West Virginia — with long histories of…

The Georgia Insurance Commissioner’s office is offering a reward of as much as $10,000 for information leading to the culprit behind a vehicle fire, one of several suspicious fires in Cedartown in recent months. After local firefighters subdued the vehicle blaze on May 22, the state Fire Marshal investigators determined the fire had been deliberately set, Commissioner John King’s office said in a bulletin. The gasoline and the battery had been removed from the vehicle before the incident. It may be the latest arson in the same area in the last eight months, including a camper fire, an outbuilding and…

Vantage Group Holdings Ltd., the Bermuda-based specialty re/insurer, announced it has been successfully acquired by Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (HHH) for approximately $2.1 billion. The all-cash acquisition of Vantage anchors HHH’s strategy to transform itself into a diversified holding company, similar to Warren Buffett’s (now Greg Abel’s) Berkshire Hathaway. The deal, which was first announced in December 2025, closed after receiving all required regulatory approvals. “Founded in 2020, Vantage has scaled into a next-generation leading specialty insurer and reinsurer, offering a diversified portfolio of global P/C products supported by modern infrastructure and advanced analytics,” according to statements from Vantage and…

Year over year, average U.S. commercial premium renewals for May increased in all lines except workers’ compensation, according to the Ivans Index. However, month over month, commercial auto, business owners policy, general liability, and umbrella saw a decrease, while commercial property and workers’ comp experienced an increase, said Chicago-based Ivans. Premium renewal rate change by line of business for May 2026 highlights include: Commercial Auto: 4.96%, down from 5.24% last month. BOP: 6.07%, down from 6.43% at the end of April. General Liability: 5.28%, down from April, which was 5.70%. Commercial Property: 6.71%, up from 6.24% in April. Umbrella: 8.01%,…

The US and its “Five Eyes” intelligence partners issued what they said was an unprecedented joint notice warning about attempts by Chinese spies to use websites such as LinkedIn to recruit assets. “China’s military intelligence services are using an increasingly wide array of professional networking sites and online job platforms to target Five Eyes government and military personnel — and anyone with access to classified or privileged information,” according to a joint statement by the FBI, Britain’s MI5 security service and the domestic intelligence agencies of Australia, Canada and New Zealand. “These actors use an aggressive online recruitment strategy whereby…

Allianz SE is in advanced talks to buy Caravela Seguros after submitting an offer for the Portuguese insurer, according to people familiar with the matter. Allianz is currently discussing a potential acquisition of Caravela Seguros with company shareholders, said the people, who asked not to be named because the information is confidential. Deliberations are ongoing and talks may still not result in an offer, they said. London-based Toscafund owns a 48% stake in Caravela and has hired Mediobanca to advise on divesting the stake, Bloomberg News reported on Jan. 19. Caravela’s remaining shareholders — a group of more than 20…

The first officer on a United Airlines Holdings Inc. plane that struck a light pole while landing at Newark Liberty International Airport last month told safety investigators that he warned his captain that the aircraft was “slow and a little low” as they were approaching the runway. The first officer said he didn’t process the information fast enough to call for the plane to abort its landing and climb back into the air, according to a preliminary report released Thursday by the US National Transportation Safety Board. The NTSB has been digging into the cause of the May 3 accident,…

This article is part of a sponsored series by Amwins. M&A transactions are designed to mark a clean break — new ownership, new strategy and a new chapter for the organization. For directors and officers (D&O), however, liability does not end at closing. Decisions made in the months and years leading up to a transaction can be challenged long after control changes hands. That is why D&O runoff, or extended reporting period (ERP) coverage, is not simply an insurance technicality. It is the mechanism that protects former leadership from personal exposure once the transaction is complete. Where the gaps begin…

A commercial bus crash in Virginia that killed five people and injured dozens of others has raised questions about the driver, the company that employed him and the overall safety of the industry. It’s not yet clear what could have prevented last week’s crash because the National Transportation Safety Board investigation is just beginning. Still, it highlights the inherent dangers whenever a bus or semitruck crashes into other vehicles — even if riding a bus is much safer statistically than driving a car. While collision-avoidance technology and emergency braking systems are standard on many new cars, commercial buses still lack…

Spotlight PA and two other news organizations are suing leaders of the Penn State Board of Trustees in federal court, accusing them of violating the First Amendment by controlling what individual trustees can say to the public and the press. The lawsuit, filed last Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, challenges what it refers to as a “gag policy” embedded in the trustees’ bylaws. That policy, the filing argues, “unconstitutionally restrains” trustees, prohibiting them from making any negative or critical public statements about the board or the university. Instead, the bylaws state, trustees “shall…