Medical Marijuana Patients Admit Driving While Under Influence January 9, 2019 More than half of people who take medical cannabis for chronic pain say they’ve driven under the influence of cannabis...
California Wildfires, Hurricane Michael Top List of 2018’s Costliest Natural Disasters: Munich Re January 8, 2019 By L.S. Howard The costliest natural catastrophes occurred in the United States in 2018 with one of California’s devastating wildfires and Hurricane Michael...
Final Insured Losses for Europe’s Cyclone Burglind Reach €756M ($862.1M): PERILS January 3, 2019 The final estimate of insured property losses from Europe’s Extratropical Cyclone Burglind, also known as Eleanor, have risen to €756...
Robots Haven’t Eliminated Many Jobs – So Far: World Bank January 3, 2019 By Natalia Drozdiak The rise of automation has so far had a negligible impact on jobs at a global scale, the World Bank...
Smart Home Product Security Risks Can Be Alarming January 3, 2019 By TAMARA DIETRICH, The Daily Press Say you’re on your laptop at Starbucks, minding your own business, when an acquaintance of yours across the room isn’t...
January Renewals Show Higher Prices for Clients with Poor Loss Records: Willis Re January 2, 2019 Reinsurance placements at Jan. 1, 2019 highlight a pricing gap between accounts with peak peril exposures, or poor loss records,...
Deaths on Passenger Jet Aircraft Rise Across Globe in 2018 January 2, 2019 By David Shepardson The fatality rate on passenger jet aircraft worldwide jumped in 2018 after airlines recorded zero accident deaths on passenger jets...
Reinsurance Prices Drop – Despite 2018’s Big Natural Catastrophe Losses: JLT Re January 2, 2019 By Noor Zainab Hussain JLT Re’s global property-catastrophe reinsurance index fell 1.2 percent in Jan. 1 policy renewals, the broker said on Wednesday, dashing...
Data Show Car Accidents Up in States That First Legalized Marijuana December 28, 2018 Crashes are up by as much as six percent in Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, compared with neighboring states that...
16.7 Million Recalled Takata Air Bags Still Unrepaired and on U.S. Roads December 27, 2018 By Tom Krisher More than three years after the government took over management of recalls involving dangerous Takata air bag inflators, one third...