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Electrical Blackouts on Cargo Ship Before Baltimore Bridge Collapse
The cargo ship Dali experienced electrical blackouts about 10 hours before leaving the Port of Baltimore and yet again shortly before it slammed into the Francis Key Bridge and killed six ...
Workforce Drug Test Cheating Surged in 2023
Overall Drug Positivity Holds Steady at Historically High Rates while Marijuana Positivity Continued Upward Climb in the General U.S. Workforce A new report highlights the startling upward trend of ...
Waymo’s Automated Driving Technology Under Investigation
The U.S. government's highway safety agency has opened another investigation of automated driving systems, this time into crashes involving Waymo's self-driving vehicles. The National Highway Traffic ...
2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Expected to Be Busier Than Usual
With the start of hurricane season less than a month away, U.S. officials who predict, prepare for and respond to natural disasters had a message for Floridians on Friday: It's not a matter of if a ...
AM Best: Social Inflation Key Factor in Rise of Loss Severity
Loss severity for many U.S. casualty lines of insurance business has exceeded economic inflation over the past decade, indicating other factors are influencing claims costs for indemnity and expense ...
Survey Offers Tips on Ways to Assist Homeowners in Procuring Adequate Coverage
The number of severe climate-related disasters in the United States escalated by 32 percent between 2019 and 2022, causing insured losses over the same period to rise by nearly 300 percent, according ...
FBI Focused on Nabbing Scattered Spider Hackers
The U.S. FBI is working towards charging hackers from the aggressive Scattered Spider criminal gang who are largely based in the U.S. and western countries and have breached dozens of American ...
Risk Alert: How to Quit Doomscrolling
Like many of us, Jessica Peoples has heard the warnings about excessive screen time at night. Still, she estimates spending 30 to 60 minutes on her phone before going to sleep, mostly scrolling ...