Russian Hackers Target Western Critical Infrastructure, UK Warns
The UK government's cyber defense agency warned on Wednesday of an emerging threat to Western critical national infrastructure posed by hackers sympathetic to Russia and ...
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Amazon Worker Injuries Dipped Last Year, but Higher Than 2020
Amazon's total injury rate for warehouse workers took a dip last year, but injuries were still worse than they were in 2020, according to an analysis released Wednesday ...
U.S. P/C Underwriting Profit in 2023? Not Yet, Fitch Predicts
Analysts at Fitch Ratings predict a better underwriting result for U.S. property/casualty insurers in 2023 than 2022, but the combined ratio is still going to hover above breakeven, according to ...
U.S. States Consider Ban on Cosmetics With ‘Forever Chemicals’
A growing number of state legislatures are considering bans on cosmetics and other consumer products that contain a group of synthetic, potentially harmful chemicals ...
What Insurers Should Know About PFAS
Scientists faced a problem when the space race was heating up in the mid-20th century. They needed to develop materials to withstand the heat of atmospheric entry and ...
Courts Mixed on PFAS Coverage Litigation
A handful of coverage lawsuits have been decided over the application of pollution exclusions to deny coverage for PFAS claims, and rulings have been split on whether ...
Changing Times at NCCI: Workers Comp Organization Now 100 Years Old
When this reporter started her career in insurance a few decades ago as an actuarial quality control technician for the National Council on Compensation Insurance, the only computers we had sitting ...
Beat Capital Launches Specialist Energy Insurance Business
Beat Capital Partners, a long-duration venture-capital investor that specializes in the insurance industry, announced the launch of a specialist energy underwriter, ...
Dollar General Targeted for Systemic Work Hazards
Dollar General Corp.'s stores are as ubiquitous in small-town America as Starbucks cafes in cities and suburbia. And just like the coffee giant, it's facing increasing ...
Chocolate Factory Blast Highlights Combustion Risks
Last week's fatal blast at a Pennsylvania chocolate factory highlighted the combustibility of food plants in general and chocolate making in particular.