Florida’s chief financial officer has named a Pensacola lawyer and businessman to the Citizens Property Insurance Corp. Board of Governors. Frank White, general counsel for one of northwest Florida’s largest car dealerships, and a former state legislator and former candidate …
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ATLANTA (AP) — A clean energy company is abandoning a plan to build a giant electric battery factory in Atlanta’s suburbs after it shifted to buy a solar panel plant in Texas. Freyr Battery told officials in Newnan last week …
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Smart Choice, a North Carolina-based firm that works with independent agencies, reported record growth, with more than 1,450 agencies joining the network in 2024. Last year marked the eighth-straight year with more than 1,000 agencies joining, along with new carriers, …
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Hawaii’s Supreme Court heard arguments last week over insurance issues that are tying up a potential $4 billion settlement over Maui’s catastrophic 2023 wildfire, the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century. The massive inferno decimated the historic …
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California has ended enforcement of its COVID-19 nonemergency standards. The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health announced the expiration of its COVID-19 Prevention Non-Emergency Standards as of February. These standards were implemented in response to the pandemic to guide …
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The waters of Cape Cod Bay are coming for the big brown house perched on the edge of a sandy bluff in Wellfleet high above the beach. It’s just a matter of when. Erosion has marched right up to the …
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Twenty-two states sued New York on Thursday, contending that a new law forcing a small group of major energy producers to pay $75 billion into a fund to cover climate change damage is unconstitutional. The lawsuit, filed in Albany, lists …
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This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Having a criminal charge or conviction in one’s background can make things more difficult for a licensed insurance producer. However, it doesn’t always have to mean the end of a …
Less than two months ago, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was pumping out lawsuits against some of the world’s biggest firms, suing JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp. and Walmart Inc. within a single week. On Monday, the …
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Police are trying to crack a whodunit over the heist of 100,000 eggs from the back of a trailer in Antrim Township, Pennsylvania. Regarding the theft that law enforcement officials say could be tied to the sky-high cost of eggs, …
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