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Construction Site Fatalities Down, Injuries Up in New York City
May 9 2024 // Building construction-related fatalities in the five boroughs of New York City are at the lowest number in nearly a decade, with seven deaths in 2023 as compared to a high of 14 in 2019. While fatalities are down, the...
Runaway Steel Drum From Construction Site Kills Woman
May 7 2024 // A steel drum weighing thousands of pounds somehow rolled out of a construction site in Pittsburgh and eventually struck and killed a woman who was walking on a nearby sidewalk, police said. The accident occurred around...
Newspapers Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement Over AI Training
May 1 2024 // A group of newspapers, including the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune, sued Microsoft and OpenAI in New York federal court on Tuesday, accusing them of misusing reporters’ work to train their generative...
One Novel Approach to Solving the Talent Crisis
Apr 25 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. It’s not a secret. Insurance has a talent crisis. Not that people who work in insurance aren’t talented – whooooo boy. But that there aren’t enough...
National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research Launches AlliBot: An AI Knowledge Bot for Risk & Insurance Professionals
Apr 18 2024 // Austin, TX., April 18, 2024 — The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research is thrilled to announce the launch of AlliBot v2.0, the Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Bot built exclusively for the risk...
Manhattan Tourist Site The Vessel, Closed in 2021 After Suicides, Will Reopen This Year
Apr 16 2024 // The Vessel, a climbable sculpture that drew hordes of tourists to the Hudson Yards megadevelopment on Manhattan’s west side before a string of suicides forced its closure in 2021, will reopen to the public later this...
Fourth Construction Worker Recovered From Site of Baltimore Bridge Tragedy
Apr 15 2024 // The body of a fourth victim of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has been recovered. The body of the deceased construction worker was transported to the chief medical examiner and positively...
Small Quake Shook California Desert Near Site of Coachella Music Festival
Apr 14 2024 // A small earthquake shook the Southern California desert Saturday near Coachella, where the famous music festival was being held this weekend. No damage or injuries were reported. The quake, with a preliminary magnitude of...
Progress Reported in Salvage Operations at Baltimore Bridge Site
Apr 12 2024 // https://video.wixstatic.com/video/f1b1b7_21110a5cf52c43efaf5bfc58cd46ee85/720p/mp4/file.mp4 Salvors continue to remove containers from the cargo ship Dali and clear wreckage at the Francis Scott Key Bridge incident site,...
The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research Announces the Launch of the 2024 Outstanding CSR of the Year Competition
Mar 12 2024 // AUSTIN, TX., March 12, 2024 — The National Alliance for Insurance Education & Research is pleased to commence the 2024 Outstanding CSR of the Year Competition. Since 1991, this prestigious competition has celebrated...
Catholic News Site to Pay $500K to New Hampshire Priest in Defamation Case
Mar 6 2024 // A far-right, unofficial Catholic media website has agreed to pay $500,000 to a New Hampshire priest who sued for defamation over a 2019 article that it now disavows. The website also is planning to shut down soon, the...
Maui County Officials Select Final Disposal Site For Debris From Lahaina Wildfire
Mar 4 2024 // Hawaii officials plan to send debris and ash from the August wildfire that destroyed Lahaina town to Maui’s central landfill. Maui County officials said Wednesday that they picked the permanent disposal site in...
That Insurance Talent Crisis? It’s a Global Knowledge Opportunity
Mar 4 2024 // Over the next 15 years, 50% of the current insurance workforce will retire. It’s a jarring number. This leaves more than 400,000 open positions unfilled, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. At the same time,...
Markets/Coverages: Legal & Contingency Launches EV Charging Site Insurance for England and Wales
Feb 28 2024 // Legal & Contingency Ltd. (L&C), the London-based MGA that specializes in underwriting legal indemnities and title risks, announced the launch of an insurance policy which will cover the installation of electric...
How Apprenticeship Programs May Be the Best Solution to Today’s Talent Crisis
Feb 19 2024 // Four-year degree required. It’s been a standard part of job descriptions in the insurance industry for the better part of the past two decades. Now, it’s time for an overhaul. The college degree prerequisite,...
Empowering the Future: Investing in Risk Management Education
Feb 16 2024 // Tallahassee, FL, February 16, 2023 — Florida is witnessing a surge in educational initiatives supporting the growth of the risk management and insurance (RMI) profession. The surplus lines market has more than...
Online News Site in Florida Shuts Down After Less Than a Year
Feb 2 2024 // WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The Messenger, an ambitious online news site that billed itself as a nonpartisan digital outlet and spent some $50 million ratcheting up its business effort, abruptly shut down Wednesday...
Changing Risks Shape the Future of Agency E&O: Webinar
Jan 22 2024 // While today’s insurance agency errors and omissions (E&O) market remains mostly stable, emerging exposures, cyber risk, natural disasters and more could shape its course ahead. That’s according to experts...
Microsoft, OpenAI Hit With New Lawsuit by Authors Over AI Training
Jan 8 2024 // OpenAI and its financial backer Microsoft were sued on Friday in Manhattan federal court by a pair of nonfiction authors who say the companies misused their work to train the artificial-intelligence models behind the...
US Seizes BlackCat Ransomware Site, Offering Decryption Tool
Dec 28 2023 // The US Justice Department seized websites belonging to a notorious Russian-speaking ransomware group, upending hackers that have extorted millions of dollars from victims around the world. The website for the extortion...
