Normandy Insurance Company Hires Morton as Pennsylvania Field Manager

Normandy Insurance Company, a Deerfield Beach, Fla.-headquartered workers’ compensation carrier, has hired Kelly Morton as its Pennsylvania field manager. The multi-state workers’ compensation carrier recently began offering coverage plans to small, mid-size and large businesses in Pennsylvania. The insurer also …

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Lawyers Seek to Compel Boater to Speak about Missing Gun in Rhode Island Court

An insurance company has asked a federal judge to force a man to discuss what happened to a missing gun that matches the caliber of the gun used to kill his millionaire grandfather. National Liability & Fire Insurance company lawyers …

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Hub Northeast Announces Two Leadership Promotions

Hub International Northeast Limited (Hub Northeast), a subsidiary of global insurance brokerage, risk advisory and employee benefits firm, Hub International Limited, has named Keti Mehta chief sales officer (CSO) across all retail lines of business and promoted Assistant Vice President …

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Cape Town Companies Threatened by Water Shortages After Record Drought

Businesses in Cape Town are growing increasingly concerned about the risk that chronic water shortages pose to their operations in South Africa’s second-biggest city and are taking steps to reduce usage and secure supply, a survey has found. Almost 80 …

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Legal Marijuana Worries Canadian Oil Companies with Strict Drug Testing Regimes

Once recreational marijuana becomes legal in Canada, Garnet Amundson says it will get a lot harder to find the workers he needs at Essential Energy Services Ltd. And he isn’t the only employer who’s worried. Essential Energy provides services to …

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Factbox: List of Major Cryptocurrency Thefts Continues to Grow

There have been at least three dozen heists of cryptocurrency exchanges since 2011. Here are some of the major and other noteworthy hacks: COINCHECK: Tokyo-based cryptocurrency trading exchange Coincheck suspended withdrawals on Friday after losing about 58 billion yen ($534 …

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Insurers Begin to Offer Cryptocurrency Theft Cover, Tackling Risks of Growing Sector

Major global insurers are starting to offer protection against cryptocurrency theft, willing to tackle daunting challenges it brings rather than miss out on this volatile and loosely regulated, but rapidly growing business. So far only a few insurers sell such …

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