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Communities Can’t Recycle or Trash E-Cigarettes. So, What Happens to Them?
With the growing popularity of disposable e-cigarettes, communities across the U.S. are confronting a new vaping problem: how to safely get rid of millions of small, battery-powered devices that are ...
Changes to NCCI’s Experience Modification Factor Take Effect Nov. 1
Alterations to the experience modification factor, or e-mod, rules by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) will impact 36 states where the NCCI governs the workers compensation ...
Gulf Coast Oil Patch Dodges Hurricanes This Season
A very active Atlantic hurricane season so far this year has not sent storms across U.S. oil and natural gas fields in the northern Gulf of Mexico, sparing energy companies billions of dollars of ...
Top States for Animal Collisions
New analysis released by State Farm indicates U.S. drivers have a 1 in 127 chance of colliding with an animal, while the most common time of the year for these types of collisions to occur is during ...
Meet Your New Employee: Advanced AI
Much of the discussion around how to manage the advanced forms of artificial intelligence—machine learning, generative AI, large language models—deals with them only as technologies. This is a ...
U.S. Severe Convective Storms Drive Record $50B Insured Losses in 2023
Global insured losses from natural disaster events for the first three quarters of this year reached $88 billion, according to Aon's latest Q3 Global Catastrophe Recap report. The figure is 17 ...
Warming Oceans Causing Atlantic Hurricanes to Rapidly Intensify
With warmer oceans serving as fuel, Atlantic hurricanes are now more than twice as likely as before to rapidly intensify from wimpy minor hurricanes to powerful and catastrophic, a study said ...
Supply Chain Risk Heightened by Climate Threats
Since acute and chronic climate risks, like floods and droughts, threaten damage and disruption to supply chains across critical industries, including the semiconductor manufacturing sector, it's ...