BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — Rioters set a hijacked bus on fire and hurled gasoline bombs at police in Belfast in at least the fourth night of serious violence in a week in Northern Ireland, where Brexit has unsettled an …
These are turbulent times. In the last year, cities have experienced many episodes of civil unrest with significant property damage and loss, physical harm to people. For our purposes, “civil unrest” encompasses three types of conduct. First, spontaneous or planned …
An organization founded more than 40 years ago to combat arson as a method of insurance fraud decided that its mission has been accomplished and folded up shop last month. All of the resources of the Insurance Committee for Arson …
Nordstrom Inc. has filed suit against its insurers, seeking a court declaration that they must treat nationwide civil unrest last spring and summer as a single occurrence rather that separate events that would require the department store chain to pay …
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz proposed a $518 million capital investment package Monday that includes $150 million for rebuilding neighborhoods hit by unrest after the death of George Floyd last May and $43 million in security upgrades for the …
Alacrity Buys Fourseventy Claim Management Alacrity Solutions Group, a claims management provider based in Fishers, Ind., has acquired Fourseventy Claim Management. Fourseventy, based in Waco, Texas has a has a nationwide network of field and desk adjusters that serve residential …
A lawsuit filed by the owner of a Chicago hotel and its rooftop bar will put to test a request by the Illinois Insurance Department that insurers disregard any slowdown caused by COVID-19 when calculating business income lost due to …
Property and casualty insurer Travelers Cos Inc reported a jump in quarterly profit that beat analysts’ estimates on Thursday, helped by an increase in returns from investments and lower catastrophe claims. Travelers reported a core income of $1.26 billion, or …
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — War-like imagery has begun spreading in Republican circles after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters, with some elected officials and party leaders rejecting pleas to tone down rhetoric …
WASHINGTON — Two senior House Democrats overseeing aviation issues urged the head of the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday to work with U.S. airlines to prevent civil unrest from jeopardizing safety, according to a letter seen by Reuters. Representative Peter …