Short-Term Rental Firms Move to Tighten Safety for Travelers June 30, 2021 By Olivia Carville Expedia Group Inc.’s short-term rental business Vrbo has banned hosts who use its platform from leaving house keys in public...
VW to Appeal Court Ruling That Clean Air Act Doesn’t Bar State Suit Over Emissions June 30, 2021 By Nate Raymond Ohio’s Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the state’s attorney general to move forward with a lawsuit against...
U.S. Goes on Offense to Fight Growing Threat of Cyber Attacks June 30, 2021 By Kartikay Mehrotra and Alyza Sebenius For the last several years, FBI agents debated turning the tables on hackers by remotely accessing breached computer networks and...
Safety Regulator Wants Crashes of Cars with Advanced Tech Reported Within 1 Day June 30, 2021 By Ben Klayman U.S. regulators on Tuesday said they would keep a closer eye on the automotive industry as it rolls out advanced...
COVID-19 Vaccines Promise Long Lasting Immunity: Washington University Research June 29, 2021 By Tamara Bhandari The first two COVID-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) employed a technology that...
Wall Street, Tech Firms Fear SEC Climate Disclosure Will Trigger Lawsuits June 29, 2021 By Ben Bain The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may make corporations reveal more about climate risks in key regulatory filings, a push...
Royal Caribbean Cruises Requiring Travel Insurance for Unvaccinated Passengers June 29, 2021 Royal Caribbean, which has restarted its cruises, said it is requiring that unvaccinated guests age 12 and older sailing from...
How Technology Can Be Used to Lessen the Damage from Natural Disasters June 29, 2021 By Greg Koller In 2020 alone, more than 10.3 million acres were burned by wildfires across the United States, a level three times...
Digital E&S Broker Pathpoint Raises $30 Million June 29, 2021 Pathpoint, a digital excess and surplus lines insurance brokerage, reported that it has raised $30 million in funding. Investors include...
Drug Industry Faces First High-Stakes Opioid Jury Trial June 29, 2021 By Jef Feeley Jurors on New York’s Long Island are set to determine whether a group of opioid makers and drug distributors created...