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Trump’s FEMA Head Backs Reducing Federal Coverage of Flood Costs
President Donald Trump's emergency management director said he's pushing for an overhaul of disaster relief so that states, cities and homeowners bear more of the costs, and less of the risk falls on ...
Industrial and Consumer Robots Are Quite Hackable: Researchers
Some of the most popular industrial and consumer robots are dangerously easy to hack and could be turned into bugging devices or weapons, IOActive Inc. said. The Seattle-based cybersecurity firm ...
Police-Inflicted Taser Deaths Led to at Least 442 Lawsuits: Reuters
In a first-of-its-kind review of court documents, police reports, other public records and news accounts, Reuters compiled the most comprehensive public accounting to date of deaths and litigation ...
As Congress Mulls Flood Insurance Program Renewal, Private Markets Envision Opportunity
Unleashing the invisible hand that has been missing from the flood insurance market for nearly 50 years is no easy task. But private flood insurance experts say the change would be a good thing not ...
Jury Orders J&J to Fork Over $417M in Talc Cancer-Risk Trial
A California jury on Monday ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $417 million to a woman who claimed she developed ovarian cancer after using the company's talc-based products like Johnson's Baby ...
Suit Alleges Nestle’s Poland Spring Passes Off Ground Water as High-End H20
Nestle SA's Poland Spring Water unit has duped American consumers into paying premium prices for ordinary ground water that's pumped from some of Maine's most populated areas, rather than from ...
Common Misconceptions and 4 Other Reasons Cybersecurity Is Failing
Businesses are spending a small fortune on cybersecurity but what they are doing is not working very well, according to a cybersecurity expert who sees the insurance industry as a key to improving ...
Another Wells Fargo Snafu: It May Have Harmed Customers by Closing Real Accounts
After paying customers millions of dollars for opening phony accounts they did not want, Wells Fargo & Co has said it is now grappling with the possibility it harmed customers by closing real ...