AccuWeather: Record Warm Winter Costs Businesses Billions in Losses April 18, 2024 Unseasonably warm winter weather cost businesses and event planners in the northern Plains and upper Midwest billions of dollars in...
Supreme Court Makes It Easier to Sue for Job Discrimination April 17, 2024 By Greg Stohr The US Supreme Court made it easier for employees to sue over discriminatory job transfers, siding with a St. Louis...
Triple-I: Insurance Economic Drivers Outperform Overall US GDP April 17, 2024 The economic drivers of the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry are growing faster than the nation’s Gross Domestic Product and are...
Wildfires Are Upending Some of the Safest Bets on Wall Street April 17, 2024 By Olivia Raimonde and Mark Chediak When the Texas Panhandle went up in flames this winter, the news spread fast on Wall Street. An electric utility...
Small Businesses See Stable Business Climate; Cite Cybersecurity as Top Threat April 17, 2024 The first quarter Small Business Index, which measures small business owner confidence, is 62.3—similar to last quarter’s score of 61.3—reflecting...
Hawaiian Electric Hits 40-Year Low Ahead of Maui Fire Report April 17, 2024 By Michelle Ma and Mark Chediak Hawaiian Electric stock hit a 40-year low in the wake of a local news report that a probe of the...
UnitedHealth Expects Up to $1.6 Billion Hit from Change Healthcare Hack April 17, 2024 By Leroy Leo UnitedHealth Group expects to take a hit of as much as $1.6 billion this year from disruptions caused by the...
Microsoft, Beset by Hacks, Grapples With Problem Years in the Making April 17, 2024 By Andrew Martin and Dina Bass The world’s largest seller of cybersecurity products has a problem with its own cybersecurity. In recent years, Microsoft Corp. has...
Harvard Study Again Stirs the Pot on Demotech Ratings of Florida Carriers April 17, 2024 By William Rabb A study by researchers from Harvard and Columbia universities and at the Federal Reserve has reopened the debate about the...
Verita Names Barry and Adolph to Claims Leadership Team April 17, 2024 Verita CSG Inc. named William Barry as chief claim manager and Chris Adolph head of property claims. In previous roles,...