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Markets/Coverages: Liberty Specialty Markets, Baobab Offer E-Crime Cover for SMEs

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Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), a division of the US Liberty Mutual Group, and Baobab Insurance, a digital underwriter of technical risks, are offering a new joint e-crime insurance product for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Germany and Austria. LSM …

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Sweden Seizes Ship Suspected of Sabotage in Baltic Sea

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The Security Service said it’s conducting a preliminary investigation into the crime … Sweden detained a vessel suspected of damaging a subsea data cable connecting it with Latvia, the third such incident in the Baltic Sea in the past three months.

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Crimes Against Customers: Part 3 – Technology Crimes

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Insurance compliance is serious business. Falling out of compliance can have real consequences for everyone from insurance agencies, carriers, MGAs, and MGUs, to individual producers, adjusters, and dually licensed broker-dealers. This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.

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Crimes Against Customers: Part 1 – Financial Crimes

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Insurance compliance is serious business. Falling out of compliance can have real consequences for everyone from insurance agencies, carriers, MGAs, and MGUs, to individual producers, adjusters, and dually licensed broker-dealers. This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.

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Norcross Defense Team Pans Racketeering Case as ‘Crime Thriller With No Crime’

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Lawyers for New Jersey insurance executive and political power broker George Norcross III say the state’s 111-page indictment against him and others for alleged racketeering is a “crime thriller with no crime.” ” In calling for dismissal of the charges, Norcross …

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Town Expects Insurance Will Help Cover $14.9M Wrongful Conviction Settlement

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million to a citizen who spent 36 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. A Massachusetts town has agreed to pay $14.9 Town officials in Braintree said they hope to recover much of that payment from its …

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Somali Piracy Revives Sharply After Years of Quiet

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Somali piracy — the scourge of merchant shipping more than a decade ago — has had a resurgence this year, the industry’s main observer of the crime said. There were eight acts of piracy and hijackings in the first half …

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