Project Owl Wi-Fi Network for Natural Disaster Connections Wins IBM-Backed Contest May 9, 2019 By Olivia Carville From a cramped living room in Brooklyn, New York, a handful of young computer nerds has developed a new way...
Limited Disaster Aid Approved for 13 Mississippi Counties May 9, 2019 President Donald Trump has expanded limited disaster aid to 13 more Mississippi counties following storms and flooding in February and...
Starr Adds SkyWatch Drone Insurance to Broker Platform May 9, 2019 Starr Insurance Companies and SkyWatch Ltd. have expanded the SkyWatch.AI drone insurance program to allow drone operators to purchase insurance...
W. Virginia Governor’s Coal Companies Sued by Feds Over Safety Violations May 9, 2019 By Anthony Izaguirreirre The U.S. government sued nearly two dozen of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s coal companies Tuesday to get them to...
Freeland Joins Assured Risk Cover to Grow Florida Parametric Product May 9, 2019 Assured Risk Cover (ARC) has hired Tom Freeland as Market president and investor. Freeland will be responsible for growing the...
Florida Passes Bill Seeking to Ease Post-Hurricane Outages May 9, 2019 Florida utilities would have to come up with a 10-year plan to strengthen and bury power lines in an effort...
Judge Tells PG&E’s Board to Tour Wildfire-Ravaged California Town May 8, 2019 A federal judge has ordered board members of Pacific Gas & Electric to tour the Northern California town of Paradise,...
Ryan Specialty Group to Acquire Wholesaler Atlantic Specialty Lines May 8, 2019 Ryan Specialty Group has agreed to acquire the assets and operations of Atlantic Specialty Lines, Inc. (ASL), a privately-owned wholesale...
Insured Losses from November 2018 California Wildfires Top $12B May 8, 2019 Insured losses from the most destructive wildfire month in California’s history climbed $614 million in the first three months of...
Texas Legislation Would Allow More Armed School Personnel May 8, 2019 By Jim Vertuno Nearly a year after a mass shooting at a Texas high school in which eight students and two substitute teachers...