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A projection for when Corpus Christi expects to reach a water crisis was pushed back by three months after a wet April brought enough rain to delay an emergency but too little to quench a brutal drought. The city was initially bracing for a Level 1 emergency — the point when water demand is projected to be six months from exceeding supplies — to hit by September. Rain that the community has long prayed for fell last month, delaying the Level 1 projection to December and buying the city a few more months to plan for the expected emergency. Still,…

The US Army Corps of Engineers finalized an easement for a stretch of the Dakota Access pipeline that passes under a North Dakota lake, ending a years-long environmental review of the hotly contested oil conduit. The record of decision issued Thursday followed the US Army Corps’ December publication of an environmental impact statement that evaluated whether the pipeline could continue operating beneath Lake Oahe. Thursday’s result includes additional conditions including enhanced leak detection and monitoring requirements, according to a statement. The Dakota Access conduit began operating in 2017 and transports as much as 750,000 barrels of oil daily from North…

Church Mutual announced several leadership appointments to support its continued growth and operational focus. The company announced Daniel Kim has joined the company as senior vice president and chief financial officer, reporting to president and CEO Alan Ogilvie. Kim brings nearly two decades of insurance and financial leadership experience. Most recently, he served as Head of Planning & Performance Management for Zurich Cover-More, where he led enterprise planning, forecasting, and performance management. Prior to that, he served as CFO for Zurich’s Japan Property & Casualty business. Dewey Gantz, former senior vice president and chief financial officer, will transition into the…

A real estate broker says an organization denied her the opportunity to purchase land in an Arkansas development because of her Jewish ancestry, and because she has a Black husband and biracial children, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court. The lawsuit, filed in Arkansas on behalf of Michelle Walker, names Return to the Land, a development whose owners have said they must personally confirm that applicants are white before they are accepted, its Ozarks chapter and five officers. It says Return to the Land founders are “explicitly attempting to establish an all-white community.” The lawsuit also calls…

After the two Navy jets collided in midair, the planes sandwiched together, all four crew members were able to eject and deploy their parachutes, floating down to safety as the aircraft careened into a field, exploding into a fireball. The collision happened Sunday during the “Gunfighter Skies” air show at the Mountain Home Air Force Base some 57 miles (92 kilometers) southwest of Boise. Here are some things to know about the crash. Just One Crew Member Was Injured Only one of the four crew members on the two planes was injured and was being treated at a hospital, Cmdr.…

Washington Insurance Commissioner Patty Kuderer has been selected to chair the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ new Child Care Insurance Working Group. The new working group will explore possible solutions and make recommendations for state insurance regulators to use with the legislature or the childcare agencies in their state. It will also report on federal and state legislation and regulations that reduce childcare claims, specifically those affecting liability damages. The working group, vice-chaired by Commissioner of the New Hampshire Insurance Department D.J. Bettencourt, includes 12 additional members and will meet twice a month. Was this article valuable? Yes No Here…

Reaction to allegations that North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey sent suggestive texts to a staff member over several years has been muted. Causey declined to comment to Insurance Journal a day after the Raleigh News & Observer reported that a former Department of Insurance regional office director, April Taylor, had revealed the texts. “We are unable to discuss the article since it relates to a personnel matter of a former employee,” DOI’s deputy director of communications, Barry Smith, said in an email. Causey, 75, told the News & Observer that he did not recall sending inappropriate texts and denied…

Meta Platforms on May 21 settled the first case set for trial seeking to make social media companies cover the costs that school districts say they have incurred to combat a mental health crisis allegedly fueled by platforms. The agreement fully resolves a lawsuit brought by Breathitt County School District in eastern Kentucky, following earlier settlements by co-defendants Alphabet’s YouTube, Snap and TikTok. The case had been scheduled for a June 15 trial in federal court in Oakland, California. Breathitt is among roughly 1,200 school districts pursuing similar claims. Its case was selected as a bellwether, or test case, for…

Airbus and Air France were found guilty on Thursday of corporate manslaughter by a Paris appeals court over the 2009 Rio-Paris plane crash that killed 228 passengers and crew, three years after being acquitted in a lower court. “Justice has absolutely been done,” Daniele Lamy, president of the AF447 victims’ association, who lost her son in the accident, said outside the courtroom. Relatives of some of those who died when the Airbus A330 vanished in darkness and plunged into the Atlantic during a storm listened to the verdict in silence after a 17-year legal battle over responsibility for France’s worst…

Canopius Group, the London-based specialty and property/casualty re/insurer, announced the launch of a spoilage product, a cyber-triggered spoilage cover designed to protect businesses when a cyber incident renders their perishable stock unsellable. When cyber incidents impact the systems that manage temperature, quality controls or environmental storage conditions, the impact can go far beyond operational downtime – it can determine whether products remain safe, compliant and fit for sale. Canopius said the UK Prudential Regulation Authority’s latest Dynamic General Insurance Stress Test reinforces the growing relevance of this risk. Its cyber scenario specifically includes the spoilage of perishable stock, underscoring the…