Full content: Ohio State University agreed Wednesday to pay approximately $100 million to settle legal claims from hundreds of former student athletes who said they were sexually abused decades ago by a doctor at the university. The school has fought lawsuits in …

Full content: This edition of International People Moves details claims appointments at Aon and Canopius. A summary of these new hires follows here. Aon Promotes Navas as Chief Claims Officer for EMEA Insurance broker Aon plc has appointed José María Navas as …

Full content: Markets/Coverages: Fidelis Partnership Forms PVT Consortium for Rising Capacity Demand The Fidelis Partnership (TFP), the Bermuda-based managing general agent, announced the launch of the TFP PVT Consortium, which brings together leading Lloyd’s syndicates to deploy meaningful new capacity into the …

Full content: Shepherd Insurance has continued its expansion in southwest Florida, this time with the acquisition of Responsive Insurance, an agency with offices in Estero and Naples, the company said this week. Matt Nance, owner of Responsive, and his team will stay …

Full content: After a chemical leak at the Ames Goldsmith plant in Kanawha County killed two workers and injured dozens more last month, federal investigators quickly arrived in West Virginia to begin piecing together what went wrong. Now, the federal agency tasked …

Full content: The US and its “Five Eyes” intelligence partners issued what they said was an unprecedented joint notice warning about attempts by Chinese spies to use websites such as LinkedIn to recruit assets. “China’s military intelligence services are using an increasingly …

Full content: Year over year, average U.S. commercial premium renewals for May increased in all lines except workers’ compensation, according to the Ivans Index. However, month over month, commercial auto, business owners policy, general liability, and umbrella saw a decrease, while commercial …

Full content: The first officer on a United Airlines Holdings Inc. plane that struck a light pole while landing at Newark Liberty International Airport last month told safety investigators that he warned his captain that the aircraft was “slow and a little …

Full content: The moment a cyber incident hits, the nature of the insurance relationship becomes clear. A policy is only as valuable as the team behind it, and the right claims partner can make an otherwise stressful situation manageable, guiding your client …

Full content: International Business Machines Corp. and AT&T Inc.’s computer systems were repeatedly breached by foreign hackers, and the companies concealed those intrusions from the US government in violation of the law, according to a lawsuit from a former IBM cybersecurity official. …

Full content: Spotlight PA and two other news organizations are suing leaders of the Penn State Board of Trustees in federal court, accusing them of violating the First Amendment by controlling what individual trustees can say to the public and the press. …

Full content: British gambling company Betfair is fighting a landmark London lawsuit that could determine whether betting companies owe a duty of care to problem gamblers, in a case that opened on Thursday and is being closely watched by the industry. The …

Full content: Florida gubernatorial candidate Paul Renner, a former speaker of the Florida House, wants to eliminate the premium tax on residential property, part of his plan to reduce homeowners’ insurance costs. The plan, which also includes tweaks to the Florida Hurricane …

Full content: Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is suing a Mahoning Valley contractor who allegedly performed substandard home-improvement work or failed to complete the upgrades after accepting large down payments from customers. “This contractor pocketed down payments only to abandon the projects,” …