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AXA Mexico Confirms Client Information, Resources Are Safe After Cyber Attack

Oct 25 2018 // AXA Mexico said the information and resources of its customers are safe and have not been affected by a cyber attack, which it discovered on Oct. 22. In a statement, AXA Mexico said that it had “identified anomalies...

Weakened Hurricane Willa Moves Inland from Mexico’s Pacific Coast

Oct 24 2018 // Willa’s fierce winds eased as the storm barreled inland over Mexico early on Wednesday, unleashing heavy rains after leaving power outages and toppled trees on the coast but causing no deaths, officials and...

AXA Cyber Attack Prompts Mexico Central Bank to Issue Security Alert

Oct 24 2018 // Mexico’s central bank said on Tuesday it had raised the security alert level in its payment system after a non-banking financial user reported “inconsistencies” in the cash payment matching...

Dangerous Hurricane Willa Heads to Pacific Coast of Mexico

Oct 23 2018 // Hurricane Willa, an extremely dangerous a Category 4 storm, weakened slightly as it veered toward popular tourist resorts on Mexico’s Pacific coast on Monday, prompting government warnings for people to leave...

Florida Residents Hit by Michael Return to Face Damage as Death Toll Climbs

Oct 19 2018 // More than a week after Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida Panhandle, authorities are reporting three more deaths from the Category 4 storm as residents returning to their homes try to piece together their lives...

Texas Pilot Who Crashed Plane for Insurance Sentenced to Prison for Fraud Scheme

Oct 17 2018 // A 33-year-old pilot, formerly of Kemah, Texas, was sentenced in early October to more than five years in prison and ordered to repay nearly $1 million in an insurance fraud-related case. Theodore Robert Wright III...

Weaker Building Codes in Florida Panhandle Scrutinized After Michael

Oct 17 2018 // Unlike in South Florida, homes in the state’s Panhandle did not have tighter building codes until just 11 years ago; it was once argued that acres of forests would provide the region with a natural barrier against...

Rescuers Continue to Search Florida Towns Demolished by Hurricane Michael

Oct 15 2018 // Dozens of people remained missing on Sunday in Florida Panhandle communities reduced to ruins by Hurricane Michael as rescuers said they expected the death toll to rise and survivors grappled with power outages and...

Karen Clark: Hurricane Michael Losses Could Reach $8B

Oct 15 2018 // Catastrophe modeling firm Karen Clark & Co. (KCC) estimates insured losses from Hurricane Michael will be close to $8 billion, according to the KCC high resolution U.S. Hurricane Reference Model. This estimate includes...

Rescuers Search for Survivors as Death Toll from Hurricane Michael Rises

Oct 12 2018 // Using heavy equipment to push aside debris and with helicopters circling overhead, rescuers in the Florida Panhandle searched for trapped residents as officials warned on Friday the death toll from HurricaneMichael was...

Michael Leaves Path Of Destruction Through Florida Panhandle

Oct 11 2018 // Hurricane Michael’s assault on the Florida Panhandle left nothing more than empty foundations and heaps of rubble in some parts of the small towns it crashed into with near-record force. Communications outages and...

After Battering Florida, Hurricane Michael Heads for Georgia, Carolinas

Oct 11 2018 // Hurricane Michael, the third most powerful storm ever to strike the U.S. mainland, headed northeast on Thursday, weakened but still set to soak Georgia and the Carolinas after devastating the Florida Panhandle. A man was...

AIR: Hurricane Michael Strongest Storm to Hit Florida Panhandle on Record

Oct 10 2018 // Hurricane Michael, a Category 4 storm hitting Florida Wednesday with wind speeds of more than 150 miles per hour, is not just a major storm for the State of Florida, it is the strongest storm to hit the Florida Panhandle...

Hurricane Michael Headed Towards Florida Panhandle, 13 Killed by Storm in Central America

Oct 9 2018 // Florida’s governor mobilized National Guard troops and ordered Gulf Coast residents to head inland or evacuate as Hurricane Michael churned toward shore on Monday, with the storm forecast to strengthen rapidly before...

New Mexico Man Files Suit Against Store over Chile Pod Slip

Oct 8 2018 // A New Mexico man suing a supermarket chain after he says he slipped and fell on a green chile pod. The Albuquerque Journal reported a lawyer for Richard Berman filed a lawsuit last week in Santa Fe District Court two years...

Update: Florida Calls Emergency Ahead of Expected Hurricane Michael

Oct 7 2018 // Michael, the tropical storm that’s been chugging toward the Florida panhandle, is now a hurricane, threatening to bring driving rain and high winds to the region’s agricultural and tourism industry. While Gulf...

Remnants of Tropical Storm Causes Flooding, Traps Arizona Cars

Oct 4 2018 // Remnants of a tropical storm drenched parts of the desert Southwest this week, trapping some drivers on swamped streets of Phoenix, Ariz. as authorities prepared for possible flash flooding in the state, central Utah and...

New Mexico Couple Wins $74M for Baby’s Brain Damage in Delivery

Sep 17 2018 // A jury has awarded a New Mexico couple $74 million in a medical malpractice lawsuit involving a son left with brain damage. The jury in late August ruled that a women’s health clinic in Hobbs, New Mexico,...

Texas Windstorm Insurer Activates CAT Plan

Sep 14 2018 // With a tropical disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico and Tropical Depression Isaac located east of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and heading west, the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) has activated its CAT...

Spike in New Mexico Traffic Deaths in August

Sep 13 2018 // New Mexico saw a spike in traffic fatalities in August as a deadly crash involving a passenger bus and a semi-trailer killed nine people. Preliminary data compiled by the state Transportation Department and the University...