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6 03, 2024

Cleanup and Track Repair Underway After Train Collision and Derailment in Pennsylvania

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Norfolk Southern crews and contractors are working on cleanup and track repair after a collision and derailment in eastern Pennsylvania over the weekend involving three trains that left some railroad cars scattered along a riverbank and at least one partially …

6 03, 2024

OpenAI Fires Back at Musk Allegations With Trove of Emails

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OpenAI fired back at a lawsuit filed against it by Elon Musk in a blog post Tuesday, using the billionaire’s own emails to show he backed the company’s plans to become a for-profit business and that he insisted it raise …

6 03, 2024

Miami Trial of J&J Talc Powder Cancer Claims Ends in Hung Jury

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The latest trial over claims that Johnson & Johnson’s talc products cause cancer ended in a mistrial on Tuesday, as a Florida state court jury said it could not agree on a verdict. The lawsuit was brought by Bob Sugarman, …

6 03, 2024

Biden Approves Federal Disaster Aid for Vermont for December Flooding, Severe Storm

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President Joe Biden has approved a federal disaster declaration sought by Gov. Phil Scott to help communities in seven Vermont counties that saw severe rainfall and flooding in December. Federal funding is available on a cost-sharing basis to state and …

6 03, 2024

Resilience in California Launches Technology E&O Coverage

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San Francisco, California-based Resilience launched a Technology Errors & Omissions coverage for U.S. organizations with $300 million to $10 billion in revenue. With $10M in limits available for both primary and excess placements, the E&O addition to Resilience’s existing cyber …

6 03, 2024

People Moves: Lerant Joins South & Western; CompSource Mutual Insurance Company Names Ingram CEO; BenefitMall Appoints Long Retention Sales Manager for Georgia and Florida

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Lerant Joins South & Western as Business Development Specialist Lou Lerant recently joined South & Western Insurance as a business development specialist. South & Western Insurance, based in Addison, Texas, is a member of the Bridge Specialty Group. Lerant will …

6 03, 2024

People Moves: LAUNCH Names Seger CTO; Kraus-Anderson Insurance Adds Business Development Positions

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LAUNCH Names Seger CTO LAUNCH, headquartered in Omaha, named JT Seger as chief technology officer. Seger’s experience includes being a co-founder at Sequel and a principal software engineer at Maptician and iN2L+LifeLoop. Kraus-Anderson Insurance Adds Business Development Positions Kraus-Anderson Insurance …

6 03, 2024

Most Americans Want Legal Reforms Against Practices Like Litigation Funding: Survey

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A majority of Americans are unaware of third-party litigation funding but most believe state and federal laws should be changed to address abuses in the legal system. According to the results of a recent survey of 2,000 people conducted by …

6 03, 2024

Brown & Brown Acquires Texas’ Hillco Insurance

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Brown & Brown announced that it has acquired the assets of Hillco Insurance. Hillco was established by Hunter Hill in the Dallas metropolitan area to serve the personal and commercial insurance needs of the expansive Dallas business community. The Hillco …

6 03, 2024

SEC Scales Back New Pollution-Disclosure Rules for Companies

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The Securities and Exchange Commission will force companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions for the first time, but watered down a key requirement after heavy lobbying from industry groups. After receiving thousands of comment letters and numerous litigation threats, …