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U.S. Traffic Deaths in First Half 2022 Hit 16-Year High
U.S. traffic deaths rose 0.5 percent in the first half of 2022 to 20,175, the highest number killed in the period since 2006, according to an early estimate released by U.S. ...
Autobrake Performance Dips After Sundown: IIHS
A nighttime test of pedestrian automatic emergency braking (AEB) systems to address the high percentage of pedestrian crashes that occur on dark roads has been introduced by the Insurance Institute ...
Hurricane Basics and The Effects of Climate Change: Reuters Explainer
After a quiet start to the season, Hurricane Fiona slammed into Puerto Rico and then battered the Dominican Republic, leaving more than 1 million people without running water or power. While ...
Night Blindness: Automatic Braking Systems Struggle to See in the Dark
Many of the automatic braking systems automakers are using to prevent vehicles from hitting pedestrians do not work well in the dark, according to test results released Tuesday ...
Lawyers Awarded $70M+ Fees in Deadly Florida Condo Collapse
Lawyers who secured a $1.1 billion settlement in the deadly collapse last year of a beachfront Florida condominium building were awarded more than $70 million in fees Monday by a judge. The total was ...
Behavioral Health Linked to Workers Comp Recovery: Study
Psychosocial factors are strong predictors of delayed recovery and other adverse outcomes in patients with work-related injuries. A recent white paper from the Workers Compensation Research Institute ...
Breaking Down Inflation’s $30B Impact on Insurers Line By Line
Experts at McKinsey & Company estimate that inflation pushed loss costs for property/casualty insurers up roughly $30 billion last year, with nearly three-quarters of that figure coming through ...
Pesticides: The New Pharma?
Fen-phen, Baycol, Rezulin, Vioxx… The 1990s and 2000s saw a tidal wave of pharmaceutical-related litigation that dominated the agenda of the plaintiffs' bar. Mass torts over the negative health ...