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RT Specialty, the wholesale brokerage division of Ryan Specialty, announced that it has promoted Will Jacob to president, RT Connector, effective immediately. Jacob is based in Chicago. Jacob has been with Ryan Specialty for nearly 10 years and was most recently chief underwriting officer for RT Connector, joining the team during the infancy of the electronic platform. RT Connector has been built with speed, simplicity, and efficiency at its core, enabling users to streamline their marketing process and gain instant access to a wide range of products and services across diverse risks and carriers. Was this article valuable? Yes No…

Waymo is recalling thousands of robotaxis to fix a software issue that could cause the autonomous vehicles to drive on flooded roads. The recall affects 3,791 vehicles equipped with the company’s fifth- and sixth-generation automated-driving system, according to documents posted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s website. The Alphabet Inc.-owned robotaxi business has placed additional constraints on the system’s operations while it works on a permanent fix. The problem stems from an incident on April 20, when an unoccupied Waymo robotaxi encountered “an untraversable flooded section of a roadway,” according to the documents. Rather than avoid the potentially dangerous…

The U.S. government has filed charges against two Singapore firms and an Indian ship superintendent for criminal conspiracy and obstruction relating to the crash of the cargo ship Dali that caused Baltimore’s Key bridge to collapse in March 2024, killing six workers. The Department of Justice said a federal court unsealed an indictment today charging the three defendants with conspiracy to defraud the United States and with causing the death of six construction workers and $5 billion in economic losses, among other charges. Those charged are ship operators Synergy Marine Pte Ltd, based in Singapore, and Synergy Maritime Pte Ltd,…

Orion180 Insurance is opening a new service center in Salt Lake City, Utah. The office will serve as a hub for customer experience, inside sales, claims intake and technology support operations. The expansion is Orion180’s third major facility. Orion180 chose …

Recalls related to backup cameras have risen sharply, up by more than a million since the start of the year, according to CARFAX data. Nearly 7 million vehicles on U.S. roads have unfixed recalls on their backup camera system, which can reduce driver visibility and increase the risk of a crash. The recalls stem from a range of issues, including blank or distorted screens, frozen images, and intermittent camera failures. Last week, Tesla recalled more than 210,000 vehicles due to lagging rearview camera images, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Backup cameras increase vehicle safety by significantly…

Brown & Brown late last week received a measured victory when a Minnesota judge granted the broker a temporary restraining order against rival broker Howden US, who stands accused of taking hundreds of employees from Brown & Brown. According to court records from the Hennepin County (Minn.) District Court, the temporary restraining order bars 16 of Brown & Brown’s former employees, now at Howden, from soliciting customers or recruiting staff. The former employees must also adhere to confidentiality agreements with Minneapolis-based Hays Companies, which Brown & Brown bought in 2018. The order stopped short of stopping the former Brown &…

The family of a man killed in a 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in a U.S. court, claiming the shooter was aided by ChatGPT in planning the attack. The family of Tiru Chabba filed the lawsuit on Sunday in Florida federal court against the company and the man charged in the shooting, Phoenix Ikner. It is at least the second lawsuit filed in the U.S. accusing OpenAI of facilitating a mass shooting. The lawsuit claims ChatGPT served as a co-conspirator in the shooting, because Ikner planned and carried it out using information…

Munich Re said it has investments of as much as €2.5 billion ($2.9 billion) in private credit, an asset class that has been facing fund redemptions and scrutiny of underwriting standards. Private credit “is about 1% of the asset portfolio of our entire group,” Chief Financial Officer Andrew Buchanan said in an interview with Bloomberg TV. “It is between about €2 billion and €2.5 billion, which for us is an incredibly digestible amount.” Private credit has been rattled in recent months by concerns about overspending on artificial intelligence, the technology’s disruptive power and lending standards more broadly. Germany’s top financial…

New Jersey car accident victims cannot recover future medical expenses in a personal injury trial if the expenses do not exceed the state’s $250,000 no-fault personal injury protection (PIP) coverage limit, the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled in a unanimous opinion. The ruling came in a case where future medical expenses under $250,000 were presented to a jury and included in a jury award despite the state’s no-fault law that says expenses that come in under the limit are inadmissible in a personal injury trial. The court explained that the no-fault law seeks to prevent a double recovery. Even…

Passengers from the Hondius cruise ship are being repatriated under a patchwork of measures that reflect uncertainty over how this strain of hantavirus spreads, complicating efforts to contain the deadly outbreak. Some passengers are being placed in biocontainment units, notably in France, for at least two weeks. Australia plans to quarantine passengers in a purpose-built facility outside Perth. But in the Netherlands, most are being asked to self-isolate for six weeks, with short outdoor walks permitted under masking and distancing rules. The divergent responses come as health officials stress that the risk to the broader public remains low and that…