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LP Insurance Services acquired the employee benefits consulting practice of Van Noy Consulting Group in Nevada. The deal includes the addition of Terry Van Noy as an employee benefits consultant. Van Noy has more than five decades of leadership and consulting experience across health insurance, managed care and employee benefits. Reno, Nevada-based LP Insurance Services is an employee-owned risk management, insurance services and employee benefits firm with business and individual clients throughout the Western U.S. The firm has offices in Nevada, California, New Mexico and Arizona. Topics Mergers & Acquisitions Auto Was this article valuable? Yes No Here are more…

You’d have to roll back the calendar a few decades to find a time when competitive moves by the nation’s biggest auto and home insurer were described with the phrase, “The big dog is off the porch.” Still, against the backdrop of competition surging in the personal lines insurance market, it was hard for this “mature” journalist not to draw a parallel to the price wars of the late 1990s and AI wars that seem to be revving up in 2026 when reading today’s State Farm media statement detailing the carrier’s “Next Gen Good Neighbor” vision. The statement, as well…

Hedge fund boss Crispin Odey has settled a handful of personal injury claims brought by women claiming sexual assault. Odey bought an end to the claims ahead of a London trial due to start next month, according to a lawyer for the claimants. Another high profile lawsuit for Odey would have aired further details of his alleged assaults spanning decades, while he was at the helm of Odey Asset Management. One of the women claimed she was groped at his mansion where he had invited her along with others for a shooting party just months after he was acquitted in…

For the first time in a generation, college-educated fathers are spending substantially more time on their homes and kids than they did just a few years ago, often cutting working hours to do it. Their changing behavior has revitalized a narrowing of gaps with women — in both unpaid and paid work — that had largely stagnated for more than two decades. Between the three-year period ending in 2019 and the three-year period ending in 2024, college-educated dads boosted time spent on housework and childcare by more than four hours per week, while reducing paid work by six hours, according…

Jed Daughton Lawley, headquartered in Buffalo, New York, hired John (Jed) Daughton to the newly created role of director of sales development. Daughton will lead the strategy behind Lawley’s sales growth in both property & casualty and employee benefits, building unified sales processes, improving prospecting and pipeline performance, and supporting producers through targeted training and coaching. Prior to joining Lawley, Daughton served as platform president for Upstate New York at Gallagher, contributing to commercial, personal, and employee benefits strategies. He also served as agency president under AssuredPartners Buffalo and as president of Vanner Insurance Agency. Was this article valuable? Yes…

More older adults are staying behind the wheel longer than ever. In the United States, there are more than 50 million licensed drivers age 65 and older, including roughly 5 million in Florida – one of the highest concentrations in the country. As this population grows, so does the need for simple, real-world ways to detect early cognitive decline before it leads to safety risks, according to researchers at Florida Atlantic University. Researchers are exploring whether subtle changes in everyday driving can signal pre-mild cognitive impairment (Pre-MCI) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Early evidence suggests these changes may appear before…

European Central Bank board member Frank Elderson on Wednesday urged banks in the euro area to quickly prepare for potential cyberattacks launched with the help of Anthropic’s Mythos AI model or similar tools. Elderson, who is vice chair of the ECB’s bank supervision arm, said in an interview in ECB publication Supervision Newsletter that euro area banks’ lack of access to Mythos added to the severity of the issue. “Lack of access is not an excuse for inaction. On the contrary, it makes it even more critical that banks step up and act now,” he said. Reuters reported this week…

A unit of state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company said on Wednesday that one of its tankers struck by Iranian drones last week has leaked a small amount of fuel off the coast of Oman, underscoring the ecological risks stemming from the Iran war. Tehran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has made navigating the vital shipping corridor a precarious task. Hundreds of vessels remain trapped in the Gulf. ADNOC Logistics & Services said it was monitoring the situation concerning its vessel, the M.V. Barakah, and was working “closely with the relevant authorities and specialist response teams.” Read more:…

A District of Columbia woman was sentenced last week to 32 months in prison for her role in a series of seven inside-job robberies of the Chinatown drug store where she was employed as a store manager, reported U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro. Pirro said London Teeter pleaded guilty in February to robbery. In addition to the 32-month prison term, the judge ordered Teeter to serve three years of supervised release. According to court documents, Teeter and three co-conspirators carried out armed robberies of the Walgreens store in Chinatown nearly once a month, beginning in July 2023, when either she…

A South Dakota mining company has canceled a drilling project in the Black Hills after opposition from Native American tribes and local groups. In a letter provided Friday by Indigenous advocacy group NDN Collective, Rapid City-based Pete Lien & Sons told the United States Forest Service on Thursday it is withdrawing its plan of operations for a graphite drilling project. It doesn’t intend to file another plan for this project, the letter said. Groups opposed the project because of its proximity to a sacred site called Pe’Sla, a meadow in the Black Hills where Sioux tribes hold ceremonies and pray…