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Say Goodbye to Commercial Drone Industry If Major Air Accident Occurs: Lawmaker
The commercial drone industry could be torpedoed if there were a serious accident involving a drone and a commercial aircraft, the chairman of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure ...
Climate Change Alert: World’s Driest Desert Floods and Wettest Woodlands Are Burning
The world's driest desert is flooding and some of the planet's wettest woodlands are burning. Welcome to summer in Chile. Rains high up in the Andes mountains have led to torrents of water pouring ...
What TPAs Need to Move With Carriers’ Shifting Needs
It's a fast-moving, high-stress time in the insurance industry, with carriers racing to update systems, respond to market shifts, expand digital capabilities and, if those efforts succeed, offer ...
EU Mulls Cyber Crimes Sanctions as China, Russia Activity Raises Concerns
The European Union is looking to get tough on cyber crimes. Technocrats representing the EU's 28 governments will meet in Brussels on Friday to discuss expanding the bloc's sanctions regime to punish ...
Challenge Accepted: Sorting, Scaling and Applying Web Data for Insurance
Big data is back. Once the darling buzzword of innovation, big data's buzzword status had been eclipsed by a trendier focus on forces of "disruption" and a passion for everything "digital." The ...
Waymo Reportedly Talking With Renault/Nissan/Mitsubishi About Autonomous Taxi Project
Waymo is in advanced talks to develop autonomous cars with Renault SA, Nissan Motor Co. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp., according to people familiar with the matter, in a move that would join a leading ...
The Latest Launches From Beazley and Sompo International
Beazley has combined its cyber and executive risk capabilities into a new division. Sompo Global Risk Solutions (GRS) will offer specialized property and liability protection to U.S. banks and ...
UK Businesses Pull Back Due to Fears of ‘The Hardest of Brexits’: Deloitte Survey
Major British businesses' appetite to take on financial risk has fallen to its lowest level in nearly a decade due to fears of "the hardest of Brexits" and rising U.S. protectionism, a survey by ...