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Category 6? As Warming Stokes Storms, Some Want a Bigger Hurricane Category
A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes: Category 6. Studies have shown ...
Supreme Court in UBS Case Makes it Easier for Whistleblowers to Win Suits
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for financial sector whistleblowers to win lawsuits accusing companies of unlawfully firing them as retaliation for disclosing wrongdoing, rejecting ...
Allstate Reverses Q4 Loss With Benefit of Low Cat Losses, Auto Rate Increases
Allstate Corp. fourth-quarter 2023 net income attributable to common shareholders was about $1.5 billion, reversing a loss of $303 million during the same time the prior year. Allstate CEO Tom Wilson ...
Chinese Hacking Campaign Aimed at Critical Infrastructure Goes Back 5 Years
An advanced group of Chinese hackers taking aim at U.S. critical infrastructure have been active for as long as half a decade, American and allied intelligence agencies said in a joint statement on ...
New UN Weather Agency Chief Says Rate of Global Warming Is Speeding Up
The new chief of the World Meteorological Organization said it looks to her that the rate of human-caused climate change is accelerating and that warming has triggered more Arctic cold outbreaks in ...
Employers Want to Fire Workers Without Getting Shamed on TikTok
Videos of disastrous layoffs accumulating on TikTok are prompting companies to seek help in delivering the bad news. More people are sharing intimate details and recordings from workplace ...
AXA’s CEO Buberl Wants to ‘Scale Up’ Corporate Business
AXA SA's Chief Executive Officer Thomas Buberl says he intends to "scale up" the firm's business insuring corporate risks in the next phase of the firm's growth. "In a highly volatile and highly ...