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Erie Insurance: ‘No Evidence’ of Ransomware in Outage; TMNA Updates
Erie Insurance said it has "seen no evidence of ransomware and there is no indication of ongoing threat actor activity" in a June 17 update on its 10-day long network outage. That statement would ...
Hurricane Erick Hits Mexico’s Pacific Coast, Life-Threatening Floods Expected
Hurricane Erick made landfall on the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico, on Thursday morning, authorities said, potentially bringing intense rains and life-threatening floods and mudslides. The storm made ...
Deadly, Unintentional Falls Increasing for Older Adults in the U.S.
Older U.S. adults are increasingly dying from unintentional falls, according to a new federal report published Wednesday, with white people accounting for the vast majority of the deaths. From 2003 ...
Transforming CAT Modeling With AI: A Framework for Insurers
Insurers are fundamentally transforming catastrophe (CAT) modeling approaches with artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and advanced climate data ...
North Carolina Lake Town’s Dam Rebuilding Plans in Limbo After FEMA Cuts
When Hurricane Helene's flood waters slammed into Lake Lure's century-old dam last September, gouging a massive scar into one embankment and cascading five months' worth of rain down its sides, town ...
Planetary Waves Linked to Extreme Summer Weather Have Tripled Since 1950
Climate change has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years and that may explain why long-range computer forecasts keep underestimating ...
AI Risks, Climate And Legislation Lead Verisk’s Emerging Issues Bracket
Collegiate teams that competed in the men's and women's basketball tournaments turned heads in March. Now, we're hearing about topics that made it to the final rounds of Verisk's recent emerging ...
Agents Must Take the Lead on Personal Cyber Coverage, Report Says
While major corporate cyber hacking makes the news nearly every day, what about hackers in homes? As personal lives and residences become more intertwined with the internet, consumers are at greater ...