November 1, 2017
Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman says fraudsters have been operating a large-scale fraud scheme in the state using a fake insurance agency as a cover. The commerce department said recently that it has received five complaints and inquiries from Minnesotans …
November 1, 2017
Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, GmbH, has added a new service to the Allied World//FrameWRX cyber risk management product through Symantec Corporation’s Cyber Division. The new service provides Allied World’s cyber policyholders access to two customized, simulated phishing assessments per …
November 1, 2017
Professional Endodontics P.C., a dental surgery practice based in Southfield, Mich., with three locations, has been sued by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for allegedly firing an employee because of her age. According to the EEOC lawsuit, Karen …
November 1, 2017
Several rural hospitals have filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma, alleging the insurance company plans to slash provider reimbursement rates. The lawsuit alleges that the four hospitals met with the insurance provider on Oct. 3 …
November 1, 2017
In laying out the interim committee charges for the next legislative session, which will begin in January 2019, Texas House Speaker Joe Straus focused on Hurricane Harvey’s impact on the state. Almost every House committee received at least one charge …
November 1, 2017
Austin, Texas-based agency partner group, Combined Agents of America (CAA), is expanding in Oklahoma with the addition of Eitzen Agency Inc. Eitzen Agency Inc. (EAI) is a family-owned insurance agency based in Fairview, Oklahoma, with a second office in Meade, …
November 1, 2017
Authorities are blaming a manure runoff from a dairy farm for killing about 60,000 fish in eastern Iowa. The farm is situated about three miles east of New Vienna. The fish kill was reported Oct. 9 after fish carcasses were …
November 1, 2017
Replacing bank and insurance workers with machines risks creating a dependency on outside technology companies beyond the reach of regulators, the global Financial Stability Board (FSB) said on Wednesday. The FSB, which coordinates financial regulation across the Group of 20 …
November 1, 2017
California’s deadliest wildfires have also destroyed an irreplaceable collection of Silicon Valley history. The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported that more than 100 boxes of letters and other materials from tech pioneers William Hewlett and David Packard burned in the …
November 1, 2017
Google’s self-driving car spin-off is accelerating efforts to convince the public that its technology is almost ready to safely transport people without any human assistance at all. Waymo, hatched from a Google project started eight years ago, showed off its …