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The tanker crew gathered their courage and carefully navigated along a route designated by Iran, hugging the coastline and maneuvering their hulking vessel between island checkpoints through the Strait of Hormuz. The 330-meter-long Agios Fanourios I, laden with Iraqi crude oil and bound for Vietnam, had been bottled up off the coast of Dubai since late April. But on May 10 it set off for the strait after a direct deal with Iran overseen by Iraq’s prime minister. Iran’s orders to the tanker were part of a complex, multi-tiered mechanism that the country has deployed for clearing vessels through the…

Alex Murdaugh has filed a lawsuit against the court clerk whose behavior during his murder trial led the South Carolina Supreme Court to overturn his convictions and life sentence for the deaths of his wife and son. The suit filed Sunday in federal court accuses former Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill of violating Murdaugh’s right to a fair trial and seeks punitive and compensatory damages and attorneys’ fees. Murdaugh spent $600,000 on his trial defense, according to the suit. In a unanimous ruling Wednesday, the state Supreme Court said Hill “egregiously attacked Murdaugh’s credibility” by suggesting to jurors…

Virginia will remain as one of only two states where courts do not allow class actions. Gov. Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, has vetoed a measure that would have initiated a procedure to allow class actions in state courts. The legislature passed bills (House Bill 449 and Senate Bill 229) earlier this year but Spanberger returned them with suggestions for amendments that included limiting the courts where class actions could be brought and making it easier for courts to dismiss such cases sooner in the process. Democratic Senate Majority Leader Scott A. Surovell and Democratic Delegate Marcus B. Simon were the…

A US safety investigator said United Parcel Service Inc. decided not to take further action after reviewing a 2011 service letter from Boeing Co. that flagged failures of a key structural component in the type of plane that later crashed in Louisville, Kentucky. Investigators probing the 2025 accident found Boeing issued a service letter in 2008 informing operators of McDonnell Douglas MD-11F cargo jets of fractures in a component of the plane’s engine mount called the spherical bearing that helps uniformly distribute loads across the structure. At the time, however, the planemaker determined the problem wouldn’t result in a safety…

Risk Placement Services, Inc. (RPS) reports it has acquired McKee Risk Management, Inc., a King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based program administrator. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. McKee Risk Management provides underwriting, policy administration, claims coordination and risk management services with program focuses of construction, public entity and property. Clyde McKee III, Clyde McKee IV and their team will operate under RPS’s program administration division. RPS is the U.S. wholesale brokerage, binding authority and programs division of global broker Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. “McKee Risk Management brings a well-established platform and underwriting expertise that complement RPS’s programs offerings,” said…

Early fears that Anthropic’s new AI model, Mythos, could dramatically turbocharge hacking are looking overstated a month after its release. The company warned at launch in April that Mythos had uncovered thousands of software vulnerabilities — including flaws across every major operating system and browser — and said the fallout from its spread could be severe. Governments took notice. Officials in multiple countries huddled with banks to assess risks, and by early May the White House was weighing rules to control how new models are released after safety testing. But inside the cybersecurity world, the reaction has been more measured…

Gallagher Appoints Practice Leaders From Assured Partners Gallagher is expanding its US retail brokerage capabilities with the appointment of the new practice leaders. Alush Garzon Alush Garzon, managing director, manufacturing, brings extensive experience developing comprehensive risk management programs for manufacturers and has a firsthand perspective in the sector from his time as a manufacturing engineer. Trevor Gilstrap Trevor Gilstrap, managing director, energy, joins Mike Hogue as practice leader to deepen Gallagher’s expertise in the energy sector. Gilstrap advises energy clients across the risk and insurance spectrum, with a focus on upstream and midstream organizations and the contractors that support them.…

The United Arab Emirates for decades has advertised itself as a haven for international business in a Middle East awash in violent upheaval. Those waves have now crashed into this nation, testing its economic model like never before. The UAE, a close ally of the United States and Israel, faced more missile and drone attacks from Iran during the war than any other country. The attacks — and Iran’s chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz — have more than halved the Emirates’ exports of crude oil and natural gas. Its tourism and conference sectors have also suffered. The country, which…

The small plane that crashed while carrying four pickleball players to a tournament near Austin last month had problems with freezing instruments before it broke apart midair, according to a preliminary federal investigation report released Friday. The Cessna 421C took off from Amarillo on April 30 at 9:10 p.m. and crashed at about 11 p.m. in Wimberley, a city about 40 miles (64 kilometers) southwest of Austin. Pilot Justin Appling and passengers Hayden Dillard, Brooke Skypala, Stacy Hedrick and Seren Wilson died. The National Transportation Safety Board report said that during the flight, the pilot reported problems with the plane’s…

The UK government must provide clarity on the future of Flood Re or risk seeing its failure to do so feed through to the country’s housing market. That’s according to the Climate Change Committee, a group created back in 2008 under an act of parliament with the goal of ensuring the UK is ready for the fallout from global warming. “One of our top recommendations for government is to undertake a priority review of what is the future of flood reinsurance,” said Richard Millar, the CCC’s director of adaptation. There needs to be “a clear decision,” not just for the…