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January’s Property Cat Renewals See Biggest Price Hikes in Turkey, Italy and US
Jan 4 2024 // While the reinsurance market indeed stabilized during the January 2024 reinsurance renewals (from the chaotic January renewals of last year), buyers with loss-affected programs experienced further upward pressure on...
SpaceX Illegally Fired Workers Critical of Elon Musk, US Labor Agency Says
Jan 4 2024 // Rocket and satellite maker SpaceX on Wednesday was accused by a U.S. labor agency of unlawfully firing eight employees for circulating a letter calling founder and CEO Elon Musk a “distraction and...
Turkey Earthquake Tops 2023 Insurance Industry Losses Outside US: CRESTA
Jan 2 2024 // The largest non-US natural catastrophe in 2023 was the Kahramanmaras Earthquake Sequence in Turkey on Feb. 6, which generated an industry loss of US$5.8 billion, the largest ever cat loss for the Turkish insurance market,...
Extreme Weather in Germany Costs Insurers US$5.4 Billion in 2023: GDV
Dec 29 2023 // Extreme weather in Germany again caused high insurance claims this year, with an estimated price tag of €4.9 billion (US$5.4 billion) during 2023, according to the German Insurance Association (GDV). This extreme weather...
SEC’s Ambitious Climate Agenda Stalls as US Elections Raise Stakes in New Year
Dec 29 2023 // The Securities and Exchange Commission’s failure to complete an ambitious climate-related agenda in 2023 is making environmental activists nervous. Less than a year before a US presidential election that could...
Ice Storms and Blizzards Pummel the Central US
Dec 28 2023 // MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – From an ice storm in North Dakota that sealed windows shut to blizzard conditions in Colorado causing hundreds of airport delays and cancellations, a winter storm pummeled much of the central United...
Truck Engine Maker Cummins to Pay Record $1.675 Billion US Environmental Fine
Dec 28 2023 // Truck engine maker Cummins Inc. has agreed in principle to pay a $1.675 billion fine for installing devices on hundreds of thousands of engines to allow them to emit excess pollution, the largest-ever civil penalty for a...
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...
US Workplace Stress at All Time High, Survey Says
Dec 28 2023 // Stress at work has reached epidemic proportions and shows little decline in 2023, according to the American Psychological Association’s “Work in America Survey: Workplaces as Engines of Psychological Health...
Iranian-Linked Hacks Expose Vulnerabilities of US Water System
Dec 27 2023 // In late November, an Iranian-backed hacking group attacked Israeli-made digital controls commonly used in the water and wastewater industries in the US, affecting multiple organizations across several states. That same...
US Airlines Ready for Busier Holiday Travel After 2022 Meltdown
Dec 22 2023 // U.S. airlines say they are prepared for busier end of year holiday travel compared with the same peak period a year earlier, when storms led to thousands of canceled flights and congestion. The U.S. Federal Aviation...
Honda Recalling 2.5 Million US Vehicles Over Fuel Pump Issue
Dec 21 2023 // Honda Motor‘s American unit is recalling 2.54 million vehicles in the United States over risks of fuel pump failure, the first recall for the issue by the Japanese automaker. Honda previously recalled 628,000 U.S....
Yemen’s Houthis Vow More Attacks on Ships in Red Sea Despite US Naval Force
Dec 21 2023 // Yemen’s Houthi rebels vowed to continue targeting ships in the Red Sea despite a US move to compile an international naval task force to protect maritime trade in one of the world’s most important...
Apollo-Owned Aspen Insurance Files for IPO in US
Dec 21 2023 // Private equity firm Apollo-owned Aspen Insurance on Wednesday filed its paperwork for an initial public offering in the United States, according to a regulatory filing. The company did not disclose details about the size...
Google to Pay $700 Million to US States, Consumers in App Store Settlement
Dec 20 2023 // Google has agreed to pay $700 million and make several other concessions to settle allegations that it had been stifling competition against its Android app store – the same issue that went to trial in another case that...
Apple to Halt US Sales of Series 9, Ultra 2 Smartwatches Over Patent Dispute
Dec 19 2023 // Apple said on Monday it would pause sales of its Series 9 and Ultra 2 smartwatches in the United States from this week, as it deals with a patent dispute over the technology that enables the blood oxygen feature on the...
Firefighters Battled Blaze in Historic Firehouse Near U.S. Capitol
Dec 18 2023 // Firefighters in Washington, D.C., on Friday battled a three- alarm fire that started in a three-story former firehouse under renovation near the U.S. Capitol. DC Fire and EMS said one firefighter declared mayday and was...
US Regulators Add Artificial Intelligence to Potential Financial System Risks
Dec 15 2023 // Rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) could create new risks for the U.S. financial system if the technology is not properly supervised, a panel of regulators warned on Thursday. The Financial Stability Oversight...
US Officials Say Russian Hackers Are Launching Potential SolarWinds-Style Operations
Dec 14 2023 // U.S. officials say that Russian hackers are targeting servers hosting outdated versions of software made by the Czech tech company JetBrains for potential SolarWinds-style espionage operations. In a statement released on...
Tesla Recalling 2 Million US Vehicles Over Autopilot Safeguards
Dec 13 2023 // Tesla is recalling just over 2 million vehicles in the United States fitted with its Autopilot advanced driver-assistance system to install new safeguards, after a federal safety regulator said the system posed safety...
