April 11, 2024
It’s shaping up to be a long wildfire season, with Texas already seeing its largest blaze in recorded history and firefighters becoming overwhelmed with recent blazes in Virginia. Just in the first three months of the year, more than 2,669 …
April 11, 2024
Sayata Unveils AI-Powered Risk Engine That Flags High-Risk Accounts Sayata has launched the Sayata Risk Engine, an AI-powered platform that uses sophisticated AI to flag specific high-risk accounts expected to drive up loss ratios. Sayata’s Risk Engine’s SmartExtrapolation technology uses …
April 11, 2024
To assist property insurers in reducing losses and speeding up recovery from natural disasters, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) adopted the first-ever National Climate Resilience Strategy for Insurance. Developed under the coordination of the NAIC’s Climate and Resiliency …
April 11, 2024
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed a resolution that would overturn a federal agency’s rule requiring states to measure and set declining targets for greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles using the national highway system. The Federal Highway Administration rules were …
April 11, 2024
The US Federal Trade Commission is asking Congress to change the law so it can handle its own privacy settlements and other consumer protection cases that it’s currently forced to refer to the Justice Department. The DOJ has been slow-walking …
April 10, 2024
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Monday bird flu risk to the public remains low even as it asked the state public health officials to be prepared to respond. The agency asked for plans to …
April 10, 2024
It was another record-breaking year for vehicle thefts in 2023, with more than one million vehicles reported stolen – an overall increase of 1% nationwide from 2022 to 1,020,729 last year. A report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau shows …
April 10, 2024
Farmers Insurance Names Coleman President of Business Insurance Farmers Insurance announced that Eric Coleman has joined the organization as president of Business Insurance, effective April 10. In this role, Coleman is responsible for leading commercial underwriting, product, strategy, finance and …
April 10, 2024
Boeing Co. faces a deepening crisis of confidence after an engineer at the US planemaker alleged the company took manufacturing shortcuts on its 787 Dreamliner aircraft in order to ease production bottlenecks of its most advanced airliner. Factory workers wrongly …
April 10, 2024
Slice Labs Inc., the New York-based insurtech that operates an on-demand insurance platform, has expanded into seven additional states and the District of Columbia with its contractors general liability insurance product for small businesses. Coverage purchased on Slice’s platform is …