J.D. Power: Customers Happier Than Ever With Property Claims – if Digital Process Unbroken March 10, 2021 By Jim Sams More than two-thirds of insurance customers are now digitally transmitting photos or videos when filing property claims, decreasing claim cycle...
Trader Buys $36 Million of Copper and Gets Painted Rocks Instead March 9, 2021 By Andy Hoffman Commodities trader Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. struck a deal last summer to buy $36 million of copper from a Turkish...
Uber Spins Off Robotic Delivery Unit, Takes Stake in New Startup March 9, 2021 By Lizette Chapman Uber Technologies Inc. is spinning out Postmates’ delivery robot operation into a separate startup, marking another chapter in the ride-hailing...
Analysis: Louisiana Weighs Hefty Borrowing to Pay Levee Debt March 9, 2021 By Melinda Deslatte BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — After Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana delayed paying its debts for improvements to the federal flood protection...
At Least 20 Dead, 600 Wounded in Equatorial Guinea Blasts March 9, 2021 By Sam Mednick and Joseph Wilson OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A series of explosions at a military barracks in Equatorial Guinea killed at least 20...
Workers’ Compensation and COVID: More Data on Evolving Claims March 9, 2021 By Susanne Sclafane Workers’ compensation insurers aren’t getting the large aggregate volumes of COVID-related claims projected during the early months of the pandemic,...
Honda Unveils Its New Level 3 Technology, But How Does It Work? March 9, 2021 Honda Motor Co Ltd unveiled on Thursday a limited batch of its flagship Legend sedan this week, becoming the world’s...
Nordstrom Lawsuit Says Civil Unrest Was a Single Event, Only 1 Deductible Owed March 9, 2021 By Claims Journal Staff Nordstrom Inc. has filed suit against its insurers, seeking a court declaration that they must treat nationwide civil unrest last...
Alphabet’s Waymo Says Its Tech Would Avoid Fatal Human Crashes March 9, 2021 By Ed Ludlow The autonomous-car artificial intelligence from Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo avoided or mitigated crashes in most of a set of virtually recreated...
Dredging the Coast Is Making Flooding Worse, a New Study Says March 8, 2021 By Leslie Kaufman Climate change is the main culprit behind nuisance flooding, but human alterations to coastal areas that deepen shipping channels or...