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Bayer/Monsanto Fails to Keep Controversial Evidence From Roundup Cancer Trials
A federal judge overseeing lawsuits alleging Bayer AG's glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer causes cancer on Monday tentatively allowed pieces of controversial evidence that the company had hoped to ...
InsurTech Avinew Raises $5M; Helps Reward Use of Autonomous Driving Tech
InsurTech startup Avinew has raised $5 million in seed financing from American Family Insurance and others, with an eye on helping auto insurers reward drivers that use autonomous and semi-autonomous ...
Be Kind, and Lead Well
For all good leaders, kindness counts. That quality reflects a leader who is sensitive and empathetic about his or her team and what they need to succeed, Mary Anne Amato writes in a recent "Leading ...
Executives On The Move at Arch Insurance, Great American and Lloyd’s
Arch Insurance in North America hired a former Travelers executive to lead a newly created business unit. Great American Insurance Group named a new executive as divisional vice president of its ...
UK Lawmakers Vote to Have May Demand EU Reopen Brexit Deal
British lawmakers on Tuesday instructed Prime Minister Theresa May to demand that Brussels replace the Irish border arrangement known as the "backstop," in a last-ditch attempt to renegotiate an exit ...
Insurance Information Institute Beefs Up Communications Staff
The New York-based Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) has appointed two new full-time employees with experience in consumer education, media relations, public affairs and strategic ...
Cryptocurrency Thefts and Scams Reached $1.7B in 2018: Report
Cryptocurrencies stolen from exchanges and scammed from investors surged more than 400 percent in 2018 to around $1.7 billion, according to a report from U.S.-based cyber security firm CipherTrace ...
$27 Billion: Predicted Insurance Payout for Global Malware Attack
A co-ordinated global cyber attack, spread through malicious email, could cause economic damages anywhere between $85 billion and $193 billion, a hypothetical scenario developed as a stress test for ...