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New Survey Reveals Tornado Warnings Are Widely Misunderstood
Roughly 50 percent of respondents in a newly released survey located in the mid-south (portions of Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi) could not accurately define a tornado warning, ...
Monitaur Announces Close of $6M Series A Funding Round
Monitaur, a model governance software company for highly regulated companies and their partners, announced the closing of a $6 million Series A funding round led by Cultivation Capital, with ...
What Happens When U.S. Prisoners Assigned to Dangerous Jobs Get Hurt?
Blas Sanchez was nearing the end of a 20-year stretch in an Arizona prison when he was leased out to work at Hickman's Family Farms, which sells eggs that have ended up in the supply chains of huge ...
Tech Bytes: New Partnerships at INSTANDA, ZestyAI, Zojacks
INSTANDA, a global provider of no-code insurance platform technology, announced an integration with UnderwriteMe, a SaaS underwriting platform provider for the life insurance industry. The ...
Cover Genius Announces $80M Series E Funding Round
Cover Genius, an InsurTech for embedded protection, announced its $80 million Series E funding round. The round was led by Spark Capital with support from existing investors, including Dawn Capital, ...
ATA Says Pot Reclassification Could Increase Trucking Industry Risks
The American Trucking Associations (ATA) is calling attention to the negative consequences for highway safety and safety-sensitive industries that could result from the U.S. Drug Enforcement ...
Contractor Fraud Awareness Week Begins on May 20, Billions at Stake
There were 28 separate disaster events last year, totaling more than $93 billion in catastrophe losses. Upwards of 10 percent or $9.3 billion is lost to post-disaster fraud, according to the National ...
U.S. to Look at Other Bridges at Risk After Baltimore Collapse
The U.S. Coast Guard said it is evaluating whether other bridges nationwide are at risk after a cargo ship crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore in March, killing six people and ...