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Coalition, the San Francisco-based cyber managing general agent and cyber-security firm, has launched Active Cyber Insurance for Enterprises in the UK, a solution designed to meet the complex cyber risk needs of large organizations. Following the announcement of Coalition’s expanded strategic relationship with Allianz Commercial, Coalition now offers up to £20 million in cyber limits to large businesses in the United Kingdom. “Our innovative enterprise solution reimagines cyber protection for the complex risks faced by global enterprises,” said Shawn Ram, Coalition’s chief revenue officer. “As artificial intelligence amplifies attack sophistication, third-party dependencies expand attack surfaces, and regulatory requirements tighten worldwide,…

Texas is mobilizing emergency response crews in anticipation of expected flash flooding from a now fully-formed tropical storm that forecasters predicted would hit the southeast part of the state on Tuesday. Federal forecasters elevated a tropical depression in the Gulf of Mexico to Tropical Storm Edouard on Monday evening. The National Hurricane Center said the storm could approach hurricane strength as it approached the northwest Gulf Coast, bringing heavy rain and flash flooding potential to the eastern Houston region. The current National Weather Service forecast says the storm will likely drop 3 to 6 inches of rain in areas along…

A Warren County, North Carolina man has been charged with insurance fraud for allegedly seeking an insurance payment from a restaurant where he claims he found cockroaches in his food. Investigators say it was one of four similar cockroach complaints he has filed against eateries. North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey announced the arrest of Melvin Junior Jones of Norlina. Jones was charged with one count of insurance fraud and one count of attempting to obtain property by false pretense. Both are felonies. Special agents with the Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Division have accused Jones of falsely reporting that…

Actress Blake Lively will get just over $400,000 of the $8 million she sought in legal costs from actor and director Justin Baldoni after they settled their fight over the production of their 2024 film “It Ends With Us,” a federal judge ruled last week. Judge Lewis J. Liman explained in a written decision in Manhattan why Lively was not entitled to the full amount that her lawyers claim was spent after Baldoni and his production company, Wayfarer Studios LLC, filed their own claims in response to her December 2024 lawsuit. Acknowledging Lively and Baldoni had “waged fierce battle against…

Small business focused insurtech Foxquilt said it has launched an admitted errors & omissions product with a rollout to 10 states starting in September. E&O is Foxquilt’s second admitted product in the U.S. along with commercial general liability. “E&O is the first of several strategic additions to out platform as we continue building Foxquilt into a scalable, multiline commercial insurance business,” said CEO and Co-Founder Karim Jamal, in a statement. Early in 2024, Foxquilt, a managing general agent specializing in embedded insurance technology, announced a strategic capacity relationship with specialty insurer Markel. Foxquilt said its E&O product will expand opportunities…

Family Dollar Stores of North Carolina, LLC, a Matthews, North Carolina-headquartered retailer with a store in Greenville, violated federal law by refusing to provide a reasonable accommodation for an employee’s pregnancy-related limitations and then firing her, according to a lawsuit by U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, on Dec. 31, 2024, on her day off, a customer service representative experienced pregnancy-related medical issues, including vaginal bleeding, high blood pressure, swelling in her legs, and back pain. The employee notified the store manager that her doctor referred her to a high-risk clinic and wanted her off…

Guy Carpenter, the reinsurance arm of Marsh, has been rebranded Marsh Re — retiring a name that has been in the insurance and reinsurance market for more than 100 years. “A new name for an expanded vision,” said the promotional video accompanying the announcement. “Marsh Re brings together reinsurance and capital solutions, with the full strength of Marsh…,” the video continued. Dean Klisura “As Marsh Re, we are entering a new chapter that enhances how we serve clients in an increasingly complex risk environment,” according to Dean Klisura, president and CEO, Marsh Re, in a statement. “With the full strength…

Two air traffic controllers could be fired for leaving the tower at New York’s LaGuardia Airport about an hour early on the night that an Air Canada jet smashed into a fire truck crossing the runway, killing both pilots, according to a government official familiar with the investigation. The official was not authorized to publicly discuss the matter due to the ongoing National Transportation Safety Board investigation of the March 22 crash and spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity Friday. Because the two controllers left work early that night, there were only two people left in…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Established program manager, REInsurePro, expands insurance offering to increasingly popular rental strategy Kansas City, MO, September 1, 2026 – REInsurePro, a national program manager specializing in delivering real estate investment insurance solutions to independent agents, has launched a new product. REInsurePro’s Rent-by-the-Room offering is a property and liability package for single-family homes in which each bedroom is leased separately while tenants share common living spaces. This coverage package includes Dwelling, Premises Liability, and Tenant Liability. “Coliving rentals present heightened property and liability risks that most providers are unwilling to underwrite. Yet, shared housing is steadily increasing in…

Two oil supertankers were struck by unknown projectiles in quick succession while transiting the Persian Gulf’s Strait of Hormuz chokepoint, maritime security consultant Marisks said. The very large crude carrier Sidr, run by Saudi Arabia’s Bahri shipping company, was hit while sailing northeast of Khasab, Oman, the consultant said. The Senegal Prosperity, operated by Sinokor, was struck by three projectiles while traveling east of the same country, it said. Both were exiting the Persian Gulf, according to Marisks. Bahri and Sinokor didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. Earlier, the UK Maritime Trade Operations said that one tanker reported being…