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Rainier Partners Acquires Texas MGA Platform Apex
Rainier Partners, a private equity firm investing in lower middle-market services businesses, has acquired Apex Insurance Services, a multi-brand managing general agency (MGA) platform focused on the Texas non-standard auto insurance market. Headquartered in Richardson, Texas, Apex manages five MGAs …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 4:26 PM |
Midwest Gasoline Supplies Hit Lowest On Record As Election Nears
Gasoline stockpiles in the Midwest have fallen to an all-time low, raising the threat of persistently high pump prices in the region just days away from a handful of crucial Senate elections. Commercial gasoline supplies declined to 41 million barrels …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 4:23 PM |
Screwworm Reaches Arizona for First Time as Outbreak Spreads
New World screwworm was found in Arizona for the first time, as cases of the deadly parasite threatening the US cattle herd spread west into a third state. The US Department of Agriculture confirmed the infection late Wednesday in a …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 4:17 PM |
Greek PM Calls for Global Maritime Truce After Greek Ship Sunk in Drone Attack
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on Wednesday for a global maritime truce after a drone attack sank a Greek container ship off Bulgaria, the latest of a series of strikes on ships in the western Black Sea this month. …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 4:07 PM |
Study: 75% of Ex-NFL Players Who Died Between 2008 and 2023 Had CTE
Nearly 75% of all National Football League (NFL) players who died between 2008 and 2023 had chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) neuropathology, according to a new study led by Boston University. The new findings build on an August 2026 study from …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 3:57 PM |
WV AG Says He’s Investigating Environmental Groups Over ‘Deceptive’ Acts
West Virginia’s Republican attorney general has launched a broad investigation into many of the state’s leading environmental groups, demanding a decade of internal records involving their fundraising and climate change advocacy as part of a probe into “alleged unfair or …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 3:53 PM |
California Braces for Floods as Atmospheric River Threatens
California is bracing for flooding as a so-called atmospheric river delivers a glancing blow to the south of the state, before moving across northern Mexico into the U.S. Southwest this weekend. Coastal flood warnings and advisories are up through Friday …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 3:30 PM |
Florida Property-Tax Ballot Measure Threatens to Defund the Police
Before the sun rose on Oct. 5, a school bus carrying students to Winter Haven High School in Central Florida was clipped by an oncoming car. The impact sent the bus into oncoming traffic, where it collided head-on with another …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 3:30 PM |
Florida Men Charged With Creating Sham Insurance Now Face Federal Indictment
Four months after two Florida men were charged with operating a sham insurance company and a month after regulators ordered them to cease operations, the two have been indicted on federal fraud and money laundering charges. A federal grand jury …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 3:15 PM |
Markets & Coverages: Aon and SAGE to Use AI to More Precisely Price Crop Insurance
Insurance broker Aon and SAGE, an agricultural risk intelligence company, are launching a crop insurance program in the U.S. they say will assess agricultural risk more accurately and help price insurance more effectively. The program uses artificial intelligence to combine …
POSTED OCTOBER 29, 2026 2:20 PM |
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