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A well-known Miami commercial litigation attorney, in practice for more than 50 years, and three family members were killed when the small plane he was piloting crashed into the sea after leaving the Bahamas. The bodies of Mario A. Lamar, 80, his wife, Lili, and their two adult grandchildren were recovered Tuesday after a search of the waters off Andros Island, near Great Harbor Cay in the Bahamas, the South Florida Sun Sentinel and other news sites reported. The family was in route to Miami after spending time at Lamar’s second home in the Bahamas. Lamar was an experienced pilot…

The Securities and Exchange Commission asked a federal court for an order compelling Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. to turn over detailed client-level voting data requested by the agency as part of an investigation into the proxy advisory firm. The filing by the regulator says ISS has refused to fully comply with an administrative subpoena related to the probe initiated in March to examine whether the company is adhering to securities laws, including its fiduciary duty to provide advice in the clients’ best interests. “It is wholly appropriate for the SEC to look into whether ISS’s investment advice to clients on…

I started my career as a writer. Not an insurance professional. Not an adjuster. A writer. When I eventually took a chance on claims, I assumed I was changing careers completely. I was wrong. The more claims I handled, the more I realized there was a lot of journalism in adjusting. A good journalist does not simply write down what people say. That is closer to a stenographer. A journalist asks questions. Then asks another one when the first answer does not quite add up. Chris Casaleggio They look for inconsistencies. They consider the source. They separate facts that matter…

Orion180 Insurance Group Inc., a specialty homeowners and flood insurer, is seeking to raise as much as $340 million in an initial public offering. The Melbourne, Florida-based company plans to market 20 million shares for $15 to $17 each, according to its filing Wednesday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. At the top of that range, the company would have a market value of about $1.7 billion based on the outstanding shares listed in its filing. Gregg Orion180 had net income of $13.2 million on revenue of $80.1 million for the first six months of 2026, compared with a…

UnitedHealth Group Inc. has sold an interest in some of its Optum Health operations in Florida to private equity company TPG Inc. as the health conglomerate is working to recover from a collapse in profits last year. “We didn’t need the dollars, we have the dollars to invest, but we needed the focus and somebody that could actually work with us locally,” UnitedHealth Chief Financial Officer Wayne DeVeydt said in an interview with Bloomberg News. Working with TPG will allow the business to grow more quickly than it would be able to if UnitedHealth were running everything while also executing…

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released more than 170,000 pages of records about the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, including documents showing officials were weighing potential liability from toxic exposure while trying to reassure the public about the safety of Lower Manhattan. The collapse of the World Trade Center’s twin towers in the attacks created massive dust clouds that enveloped much of downtown, covering highly populated neighborhoods with ash, debris and harmful particles, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fires in the towers’ debris piles burned for months after the attacks, releasing carcinogenic…

The US attacked more Iranian oil tankers overnight, with the worsening tensions over control of the Strait of Hormuz sending Brent crude beyond $100 a barrel. The American military said it “destroyed” five vessels in response to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeting one of its warships. The American vessel “successfully evaded the attempted Iranian attacks,” Central Command, which oversees US forces in the Middle East, said. “No American personnel were harmed.” Centcom said it hit four tankers in the Gulf of Oman and one near Kharg Island, which sits within the Persian Gulf and is Iran’s main oil-export terminal.…

Willis Re said it has hired Neil Eckert as CEO one day after Conduit Holdings announced Eckert would be leaving as CEO of Conduit Re. Willis Re said Eckert will lead its global broking and advisory strategy to drive growth across all platforms. Neil Eckert Eckert will join London-based Willis Re once he completes his contractual obligations at Conduit, which said Sept. 8 that Eckert will step down on Match 1, 2027. Eckert was a founder of the Bermuda-based reinsurer in 2020 and served as executive chair before being appointed CEO in May 2025. Eckert began his career as a…

Air travelers in the UK faced a second day of severe disruptions after a technical glitch at a key node forced Heathrow Airport and other hubs to cancel hundreds of flights, adding to similar incidents in recent years that have tested the resilience of the country’s aviation infrastructure. British Airways scrapped almost 200 flights on Wednesday because aircraft and crew were out of position, the UK flagship carrier said in a statement. In total, about 291 flights representing about 5% of the 5,869 scheduled, didn’t take place, according to Cirium data. On Tuesday, airports in the UK suffered more than…

Artificial intelligence use is surging on farms as growers look for some high-tech help in planning and managing operations after years of scaling back on spending, according to McKinsey & Co. Some 17% of the world’s farmers now use generative AI in farm-related tasks, making it one of the fastest-growing technologies in agriculture, McKinsey said in its Global Farmer Insights 2026 report, published Tuesday. The AI adoption follows a multiyear farm slump that crimped spending amid rising costs for agricultural inputs. Costs for labor, land, equipment, financing and fertilizer have remained elevated and volatile since farmer profitability last peaked in…