An East Texas groundwater conservation district is negotiating a legal path that would pause a plan to pump billions of gallons of water out of the region. The Neches & Trinity Valleys Groundwater Conservation District is allowing its lawyers to …
Plan to Pump Billions of Gallons From East Texas Appears on Hold Read More »
The 60,000 men and women responsible for keeping American skies safe have gone unpaid throughout the government shutdown. Without a funding agreement soon, many will be forced to dip into savings, rack up credit-card debt, or take on part-time jobs …
Grounded Paychecks: 60,000 Air Safety Workers Tighten Belts as US Shutdown Drags Read More »
North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey this week called for more state and federal assistance after multiple homes on the Outer Banks have collapsed into the ocean in the last two months. “I am urging our Congressional delegation to see …
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Apple Inc. lashed out at the European Union’s attempts to tame the power of Silicon Valley in the most far-reaching legal challenge of the bloc’s Big Tech antitrust rules. The iPhone maker’s lawyer Daniel Beard told the General Court in …
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The US saw more than $101 billion in losses from severe storms and fires in the first half of 2025, setting a record. That’s according to a database of billion-dollar disasters that a nonprofit has re-launched since the Trump administration …
US Saw Record $101 Billion in Weather Losses Through June Read More »
The recent 15-hour or so outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) again raised questions about the potential for systemic loss to the cyber insurance market, but losses from the temporary lapse in cloud services is not likely to be catastrophic. …
AWS Outage a ‘Moderate Incident,’ Another Near Miss for Insurance Industry Read More »
Colorado’s Insurance regulator is warning consumers and insurers about trend in auto shops in the state offering to waive deductibles. “The Division has become aware that certain auto repair shops in Colorado are advertising or engaging in practices that involve …
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It’s not the Liberty Bowl, but the Music City Bowl in Nashville that Liberty Mutual Insurance is sponsoring this year, giving the insurance carrier more branding exposure in a Dec. 30 matchup between Southeastern Conference and Big Ten football teams. …
Liberty Mutual Signs on as Title Sponsor for Music City Bowl in Nashville Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by a group of physicians and healthcare providers to revive their antitrust lawsuit accusing drugmaker Merck of misleading federal regulators to maintain a decades-long monopoly over the mumps vaccine …
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Australia has ordered four artificial-intelligence chatbot companies to explain their measures to protect children from exposure to sexual or self-harm material, as its internet regulator beefs up safety measures on the AI front. The realistic conversational abilities of such services …
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