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Primary Insurers Will Absorb $5B+ Hurricane Helene Losses: Rating Agencies
In initial commentaries released a day after Hurricane Helene made U.S. landfall, AM Best and Fitch Ratings both pegged insurance industry loss totals at at least $5 billion, indicating that primary ...
Survey: Only One-Fifth of Employees Report Receiving Effective Training for Soft Skills
Just one-fifth of employees say their companies are effective at training and developing soft skills, according to "The New Skills Gap: Building Tomorrow's Workforce Today" report from Achievers ...
Injury, Fatality Factors Related to OSHA Top 10 Safety Citations
The primary injury and fatality events associated with Occupational Health and Safety Administration's top 10 workplace compliance issues were announced recently by the National Safety Council. ...
Decades of Erosion, Storms Leads to More Carolina Homes Collapsing into the Surf
A slow-motion catastrophe has been playing out in the coastal North Carolina village of Rodanthe, where 10 houses have fallen into the Atlantic since 2020. Three have been lost since Friday. The most ...
Personal Auto Insurance Could Be Obsolete in 20 Years: Morningstar
Self-driving cars could make personal auto insurance largely obsolete within 20 years, according to a worst-case scenario modeled by Morningstar. A more likely, moderate scenario forecasts the line ...
Tropical Storm Helene Lashes Florida With Powerful Winds, Rain
Hurricane Helene barreled into the western coast of Florida with dangerous winds, knocking out power for more than a million customers and threatening to unleash deadly flooding across several ...
Commercial Properties in Helene’s Direct Path Identified by Moody’s
A day before Hurricane Helene was forecast to make landfall on Florida's Gulf Coast, Moody's published an interactive online map revealing 161,849 commercial properties in direct path, valued at over ...
CARFAX: Nearly 90,000 Cars Damaged in Summer Floods
After a series of tropical storms and hurricanes hit the U.S. from June through August, CARFAX estimates that extensive flooding from Texas to Vermont has left as many as 89,000 vehicles with water ...