Irish Health Service Hackers Offer Decryption Key – but $20M Ransom Demand Remains May 21, 2021 By Ryan Gallagher and Peter Flanagan A day after threatening to publicly release patient data, the hackers who targeted Ireland’s health service offered a decryption key...
Biden Executive Order Initiates Broad Strategy to Assess, Mitigate Climate Change Risks May 21, 2021 By Andrea Shalal and Jeff Mason President Joe Biden on Thursday directed federal agencies to assess and mitigate the increasing and serious risks that climate change...
Africa Specialty Risks Launches Mauritius Reinsurer, Backed by PE Firm Helios May 21, 2021 Africa Specialty Risks (ASR), a reinsurance managing general agent focused on the African corporate and specialty market, announced it has...
Waffle Raises $5M for Its ‘All-in-One’ Virtual Insurance Agency May 21, 2021 The insurtech Waffle has raised $5 million in seed funding, with plans to offer cyber, renters, pet, travel and life...
Louisiana, Texas Brace for More Heavy Rain and Flooding May 21, 2021 By Kanishka Singh Heavy rain across the eastern Texas and western Louisiana Gulf Coasts may bring more flooding on Friday, the National Weather...
Italy Probes Alleged Cartel Among Auto Insurers, Including Allianz Direct, Zurich May 21, 2021 MILAN – Italy’s antitrust watchdog said on Friday it had opened an investigation into an alleged cartel among insurance companies...
Student Blamed for Cyber Attack on Massachusetts School’s Network May 21, 2021 A student was behind a cyber attack on a Massachusetts school system this week that temporarily shut down the district’s...
Staffers Allege that Employer Ignored COVID Precautions in Massachusetts May 21, 2021 A Massachusetts man claims that a national addiction treatment program with offices in Pittsfield and Cummington failed to take precautions...
As One New Jersey Forest Fire is Contained, a Second Starts May 21, 2021 By Wayne Parry As New Jersey firefighters gained control of one forest fire in the heavily wooded Pinelands region, a second broke out,...
Australia Bushfire Funding ‘Welcome’ but Insurance Tax Rise ‘Unsustainable’: ICA May 21, 2021 The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) welcomed the budget announcement from the state of Victoria of funding of A$517 million...