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Many Lawsuit Claims Likely From Southwest Survivors
After the crash come the claims. Being on an airplane more than six miles in the air when an engine blows up and sends shrapnel through a window is an experience so scary that aviation lawyers say ...
Safety Advocates Chip Away at Tesla’s Post-Fatality Autopilot Defense
Tesla Inc.'s ardent defense of its Autopilot system is getting heat from safety advocates who question a key data point the company has been citing to plead its case. Several times since an ...
Plenty of Reinsurance Capacity Remains for Mid-Year Renewals: Aon Benfield
Global reinsurer capital continued to rise in 2017, despite the $136 billion in insured losses from natural catastrophes last year, according to a reinsurance market report published by Aon Benfield. ...
U.S. Small Businesses Hammered by Uninsured Losses From 2017 Storms
Small businesses in the United States struggled with uninsured damages and lost revenue following a record-breaking year of hurricanes and wildfires, according to a Federal Reserve survey published ...
Kespry Promises Drone-Powered Roof Inspections in One Hour for Insurance Adjusters
Kespry, a drone-based aerial intelligence solution provider, announced new capabilities for accelerating the assessment of roof hail and wind damage for residential, multifamily and commercial ...
InsurTech Carrier CEO Explains Poor 2017 Results; Fields Questions on Reddit
The chief executive officer of an InsurTech insurance company responded to recent reports about his company's unfavorable 2017 loss ratio result on a social news platform last Friday. "We want to ...
Tesla Draws Negative Response for Blaming Autopilot Death on Driver
Consumer-safety advocates and autonomous-vehicle experts criticized Tesla Inc. for issuing another statement about the death of a customer that pinned the blame on driver inattentiveness last week. ...
Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Readying ‘Thousands’ of Asbestos Cases in Wake of J&J Verdict
A $117 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson and a supplier in favor of a man who said his asbestos-related cancer was caused by long-term use of J&J's Baby Powder could open a new front ...