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Study: Wildfires Increase Mental Health Burden
A new study of prescription records supports a long-suspected link between wildfires and mental health, indicating that large wildfires appear to exacerbate preexisting mental health conditions, ...
Chief Risk Officers Take on Gen AI
When Generative AI burst onto the scene at the end of 2022, users gushed about the automatic content creation, greater productivity, and some funny or disturbing anomalies. Within days, it seemed, ...
Why a framework to build agents is necessary, but not the same thing as AI doing insurance work. Almost every...
Lawsuit Alleges Xcel Energy Utility Equipment Started Damaging Texas Wildfire
A Texas homeowner whose house was destroyed by a massive wildfire raging northeast of Amarillo sued electric utility Xcel Energy on Friday, alleging that a splintered power pole owned by the company ...
N.J. City’s Limited Street Parking Leads to Zero Traffic Deaths in 7 Years
Street parking was already scarce in Hoboken, N.J., when the death of an elderly pedestrian spurred city leaders to remove even more spaces in a bid to end traffic fatalities. For seven years now, ...
6 Emerging Risks to Watch: Frost Quakes, AI-Assisted Hackers, Flood Magnets
In this edition of Risk Alerts, Carrier Management highlights cryoseisms, also known as frost quakes; AI-assisted phishing attacks using large language models and voice cloning; flood-prone homes; ...
U.S. Power Companies Under Fire Over Role in Deadly Wildfires
The wildfire raging across the Texas panhandle, dubbed the Smokehouse Creek Fire and officially the largest on record for the state, has doubled in size since earlier this week and burned through an ...
Gun Oversight Focus of Testimony in Fatal Alex Baldwin Movie Set Shooting
A film-set manager increased oversight of firearm safety but was only partially aware of misfires in the days leading up to the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin during rehearsal ...
Gas Stoves May Emit More Nanoparticles Than Car Exhausts, and Other Risk Alerts
Cooking on a gas stove can emit more nano-sized particles into the air than vehicles that run on gas or diesel, possibly increasing the risk of developing asthma or other respiratory illnesses, a new ...