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Burns & Wilcox, headquartered in Famington Hills, Michigan, hired Winston Rendall and Sandra Shambaugh as associate managing directors for the West region. Rendall comes to Burns & Wilcox with 10 years of experience. Most recently, he was vice president of sales, distribution and business development at Hull & Company, part of Bridge Specialty Group. Shambaugh has more than 15 years of executive leadership experience in the insurance industry, along with a record of managing, developing and growing teams. She previously served as vice president of insurance at AAA Hoosier Motor Club. Topics Talent Was this article valuable? Yes No Here…

The Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation has posted finalized rule changes in keeping with a recent court decision on physician dispensing of medication, along with new rules requiring the latest federal immigration status forms for workers. Six months after a Florida appeals court pulled the plug on state rules that had allowed physician dispensing, the DWC has revised its regulations to be in line with the court ruling. The new rules, which took effect Sept. 2, strike language that had stated flatly that physicians and nurse practitioners may dispense medication to injured workers and that insurers cannot disallow it. Dispensing…

U.S. lawmakers this week called for new rules to govern AI, after an Anthropic researcher went public with his concerns about the technology escaping human control. The reaction was broader than after previous statements from OpenAI and Anthropic staffers about safety concerns, drawing input from lawmakers who do not often forcefully engage in debates over how to govern AI. The lawmakers’ statements came in response to concerns raised this week by Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who accused OpenAI and Anthropic of ⁠racing toward AI advancements without acting responsibly. Coxon said he was leaving the AI industry, and his allegations spread…

A Louisiana man has pled guilty in federal court to committing arson in connection with the malicious burning of St. John Chapel in Caldwell Parish in the early morning of March 27, 2026. Anthony Dillon Jr., 19, of Columbia, faces a mandatory minimum of five years and up to 20 years in federal prison. According to court documents, Dillon and an accomplice entered St. John Chapel intending to steal electronic equipment, including multiple television sets. After stealing several televisions from inside the church, the two ignited a fire in the administrative area of the building, using a fire accelerant within…

Jencap Group announced that it has acquired Concorde General Agency (Concorde), a regional wholesaler specializing in personal lines, commercial lines, and farm and ranch insurance. Fargo, North Dakota-based Concorde will continue operating under its well-established brand as part of the Jencap Insurance Services Inc (JCIS) division, combining its regional expertise and strong market relationships with the expanded resources, capabilities, and national reach of Jencap. Topics Mergers & Acquisitions Was this article valuable? Yes No Here are more articles you may enjoy. Interested in Mergers? Get automatic alerts for this topic.

KingsCover Insurance Services, a specialty agency serving churches and ministries, has rebranded as Dominion First Insurance Services. The name change does not affect ownership, leadership, staffing, or client policies — the agency continues under the same team that built its book of business. Dominion First remains the agency partner of Texas Baptists and a premier partner in the KingsCover Underwriters program —KingsCover, a Risk Theory company. The agency operates exclusively in the church and ministry space, offering property and general liability, specialty liability lines such as crime, kidnap and ransom, EPLI, D&O, and abuse and molestation coverage, along with employee…

Lely North America, Inc., an international agricultural technology company headquartered in Pella, Iowa, agreed to resolve a discrimination charge filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced. The EEOC’s charge investigation found that Lely violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when it failed to provide a wage increase to a former employee on the basis of sex. The investigation also found that the former employee was harassed and constructively discharged on the basis of age, in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. Under the conciliation agreement resolving the charge,…

Oregon employers will pay 92 cents per $100 of payroll for workers’ compensation coverage on average in 2027, a rate that would be the second lowest on record. A proposal from the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services calls for the pure premium rate to increase by an average 2.1%. The pure premium per $100 of payroll will have declined by 36.5% from 2018 to 2027. The increase to the average pure premium rate would contribute to an increase in the average cost of workers’ comp coverage, from 89 cents per $100 of payroll in 2026 to 92 cents…

New York officials are moving to require auto insurers to receive prior approval before implementing any increases in private passenger insurance rates. The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has proposed a regulation amending the process for insurers filing private passenger auto insurance rates. The regulation is part of the effort to implement consumer measures included in a series of reforms passed early in the summer as part of the current budget to help bring down the cost of auto insurance in the state. The new rate regulation will require insurers to seek express prior approval from DFS…

Twenty-five years after 9/11, the surveillance infrastructure built and expanded in its aftermath has become part of a far larger digital ecosystem — producing tools that can collect and analyze information on a scale unimaginable in 2001. The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, did more than reshape the nation’s approach to terrorism. They changed the architecture of American intelligence and policing. They expanded how government agencies collect, share and analyze information, and brought national security tools deeper into ordinary law enforcement. The infrastructure built in the attacks’ aftermath has proved remarkably durable. Joint terrorism task forces and fusion centers…