Flood Patterns Have Changed; Flood Insurance Needs to Keep Up
The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is going broke. Increased flood strikes in more places, combined with outdated ways of predicting flood risk, are putting ...
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Sentry: Are Business Leaders Worried About the Right Risks?
More than half (54%) of U.S. business leaders expect their companies to survive and thrive in 2026, yet 60% say they're more stressed than they were last year, according ...
Iran War Poses New Risk to U.S. Economic Resilience
A U.S. economy that has weathered a year of trade, immigration and other shocks now faces a new test likely to ratchet up uncertainty after President Donald Trump's decision to ...
IIHS Seat Belt Calculator Shows How Improved Laws Could Boost Safety
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety announced a new online tool that shows how specific changes to seat belt laws would affect belt use and fatality rates in each state. Using statistical ...
Delaware High Court Upholds Recent Corporate Law Overhaul
The Delaware Supreme Court upheld on Friday a 2025 law that overhauled the state's widely used corporate code to limit lawsuits against powerful business leaders, a measure that opponents had dubbed ...
Firefighter Warned Brush Fire Wasn’t Out Before Massive Palisades Blaze Ignited
A Los Angeles firefighter testified in a newly released deposition that he told colleagues the ground was still smoldering from a brush fire days before authorities say it reignited into the most ...
AI-Generated Job Ads Discriminated Against U.S. Workers, Says Civil Rights Unit
The Department of Justice (DOJ) reported it has secured a settlement agreement with a Virginia information technology services firm that is says discriminated against U.S. workers by advertising jobs ...
Senators Sound Alarm After New Data Shows Fewer OSHA Inspections, Fines
A group of U.S. senators issued a letter to Labor Secretary Chavez-DeRemer and Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health David Keeling, outlining their concerns about new data ...
Investor Lawsuits Push Back on SEC Changes That Gave Firms More Power
A new federal approach giving U.S. companies more say over which proposals shareholders can vote on at their annual meetings is creating regulatory uncertainty and leading to litigation, activists ...