Global insurance brokerage Hub International is joining the cannabis craze with the launch of a new comprehensive cannabis insurance and risk services offering.

The Institutes RiskBlock™ Alliance announced today that 12 additional companies have joined the risk management and insurance industry’s first enterprise-level blockchain consortium, bringing the total number of member companies to 30.

Rate increases began to bolster the bottom line for reinsurers during the first half of 2018, and insurers saw added income from higher interest rates and a growing U.S. economy, say analysts surveying the sector’s second-quarter results.

A sinkhole that opened up at a Tanger Outlets parking lot in Lancaster County on Friday, has left some of its shoppers in a tough spot. A few of those whose cars were swallowed in, are now looking at pricey repairs.

A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages.

Eleven people from the Sicilian capital Palermo have been arrested, police said. They include a hospital nurse who would procure painkillers for the victims in order to lessen their screams as their bones were broken.

A six-car crash involving a big rig early Monday morning brought southbound traffic on Highway 99 to a total stop and resulted in one DUI arrest, the California Highway Patrol reported.

A U.S. federal district judge has given final approval on the $2 million settlement of a federal lawsuit brought by the estate of Autumn Steele, who was fatally shot by a Burlington police officer in 2015.

Eleven U.S. passengers who survived an Aeromexico crash in the northern Mexican state of Durango on July 31 filed lawsuits against the airline in Chicago on Monday, according to a statement by Chicago-based attorneys Corboy & Demetrio.

A trial in which a school groundskeeper alleged that his use of Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer caused his terminal cancer will go to a California jury after lawyers for both sides delivered their closing arguments on Tuesday.

Thousands of businesses across the nation breathed a sigh of relief on May 21, 2018, as the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision, ruled that employment contracts containing class-action waivers are enforceable under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA).

A federal judge on Thursday rejected a lawsuit by the developer of New York’s World Trade Center seeking to take a $14 million cut of a settlement between its insurer and airlines over the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Insurtech company REIN has launched DroneInsurance.com, with underwriting by Liberty Specialty Markets, providing usage-based insurance for commercial drone operators and simplifying the process of obtaining both base and liability coverage.

A federal judge in New Jersey has ruled that Amazon.com can’t be held liable as the seller of a laptop battery that allegedly caught fire and destroyed the customer’s home.

The families of four of the 17 people killed when a World War Two-style tourist "duck boat" sank on a Missouri lake during a storm this month have sued the tour operator, saying it recklessly allowed the vessel out in dangerous weather.