Amid COVID-19, Cyber Criminals Push Phishing, Ransomware Scams June 16, 2020 There was a 25% spike in ransomware attacks in the first quarter of 2020 versus the fourth quarter 2019, based...
Axon Underwriting Forms Product Recall Crisis Management Division June 15, 2020 Axon Underwriting Services LLC, a specialty lines program administrator, has formed Axon Crisis Management to offer its product recall and...
Supreme Court Bans Employment Bias Against Gay, Transgender People June 15, 2020 By Lawrence Hurley The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday delivered a watershed victory for LGBT rights, ruling that a landmark federal law forbidding...
Software Allows Drones to Monitor Social Distancing, Face Masks June 15, 2020 By Stephen Nellis Airspace Systems, a California startup company that makes drones that can hunt down and capture other drones, last Thursday released...
Nationwide Insurance Joins Investors in Planck’s $16 Million Financing Round June 15, 2020 By Mark Hollmer Nationwide, eyeing the possibilities with technology startup Planck’s small commercial insurance data platform, has joined the company’s latest financing round....
Absenteeism at Meatpacking Plants Tied to Workplace Safety Concerns June 15, 2020 By Tom Polansek and Andy Sullivan Smithfield Foods Inc. is missing about a third of its employees at a South Dakota pork plant because they are...
Companies Press Insurance Brokers for Workarounds to Rising D&O Costs June 15, 2020 By Jef Feeley and Katherine Chiglinsky When Elon Musk said in April he was dropping the insurance policy that protects Tesla Inc.’s board from shareholder lawsuits,...
U.S. to Publicly Share Autonomous Vehicle Testing Data June 15, 2020 By David Shepardson U.S. auto safety regulators will unveil on Monday a voluntary effort to collect and make available nationwide data on existing...
Federal Reserve Warns of ‘Long Road’ Ahead to Economic Recovery June 15, 2020 By Ann Saphir, Jonnelle Marte and Lindsay Dunsmuir The Federal Reserve expects household finances and business balance sheets to suffer “persistent fragilities” as a result of the shock...
Senators Draft Bill to Reform How U.S. Approves New Plane Designs June 15, 2020 By David Shepardson and Tracy Rucinski Two key U.S. senators are circulating a bipartisan draft bill that would reform how the Federal Aviation Administration certifies new...