Production will remain suspended indefinitely at a Tata Electronics plant in southern India that makes Apple iPhone components after a fire at the weekend, officials said on Monday as they acted to prevent further damage from the blaze. “We have …
The lead European Union privacy regulator fined social media giant Meta 91 million euros ($101.5 million) on Friday for inadvertently storing some users’ passwords without protection or encryption. The inquiry was opened five years ago after Meta notified Ireland’s Data …
Marsh McLennan says it has a deal in place to acquire McGriff Insurance Services for $7.75 billion, funded by cash and debt financing. U.S. retail broker McGriff, an affiliate of private-equity backed Truist Insurance Holdings (TIH), had $1.3 billion of …
Hurricane Helene has halted chicken processing plant operations and caused severe damage to some flocks, while also downing pecan trees and flattening cotton crops, as floodwaters swamped the southern US. Wayne-Sanderson Farms said its Moultrie, Georgia, processing facility will not …
Last year, five people hoping to view the Titanic wreckage died when their submersible imploded in the Atlantic Ocean. A Coast Guard panel that’s investigating the Titan submersible disaster heard two weeks of testimony that ended Friday. Previous witnesses provided …
An earthquake registering magnitude 4.2 shook part of central California early Sunday, the United States Geological Survey confirmed. The earthquake was detected at 2:47 a.m. local time about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) northwest of Aromas with a depth of 7.4 …
Hurricane Helene barreled into the western coast of Florida with dangerous winds, knocking out power for more than a million customers and threatening to unleash deadly flooding across several states. Helene made landfall near Perry with top sustained winds of …
Moving money from coal assets to a new responsible-investment exchange-traded vehicle provided the sort of quick win the New York State Insurance Fund was looking for when evaluating the climate and social impacts of its holdings, a top executive said …
Despite challenging conditions, 75% of independent insurance agencies saw revenue gains from 2022 to 2023, according to the 2024 Agency Universe Study. That number is significantly higher than between 2020 and 2021, during which 62% of agencies experienced gains. According …
Hundreds of claims adjusters were set to move out across Florida, Georgia and western parts of the Carolinas Friday morning as Hurricane Helene brought high storm surge and 140 mph winds to a region that has faced three hurricanes in …