30 04, 2024

People Moves: SCOR Business Solutions Taps HDI’s McDonald as CEO, Succeeding Launay; Consilium Appoints Moore From Aon for Delegated Risk Solutions Team

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This edition of International People Moves details appointments at SCOR Business Solutions and the re/insurance broker Consilium. A summary of these new hires follows here. SCOR Business Solutions Taps HDI’s McDonald as CEO, Succeeding Launay Reinsurer SCOR has named Claire …

1 05, 2024

Warren Buffett’s PacifiCorp Now Faces $30B Claim Demand in Oregon Wildfires

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Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s PacifiCorp now faces a demand for $30 billion from victims of Oregon’s 2020 Labor Day wildfires, an escalation of a legal onslaught on the largest grid operator in the western US. While the amount sought in an …

1 05, 2024

Connecticut Weighs Wide-Ranging Bill to Regulate AI. But Its Fate Is Uncertain.

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The Connecticut Senate recently pressed ahead with one of the first major legislative proposals in the U.S. to rein in bias in artificial intelligence decision-making and protect people from harm, including manufactured videos or deepfakes. The vote was held despite …

1 05, 2024

People Moves: BenefitMall Appoints Patton Benefits Sales Executive for Colorado

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BenefitMall named Sam Patton to its team as the new benefits sales executive for Colorado. Patton specializes in ancillary benefits such as life, disability insurance, and executive supplemental disability. Patton most recently served as an executive disability benefits consultant with …

1 05, 2024

OSHA Cites Hanover Foods for 70 Alleged Safety Violations

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Pennsylvania-based food manufacturer Hanover Foods Corp. has been found in violation of dozens of safety and health hazards at its Centre Hall facility, according to federal officials. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration opened an investigation at the Centre …

1 05, 2024

New York Court Officer Wins 9/11 Workers’ Compensation Benefits on Appeal

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On the morning of September 11, 2001, Robert Liotta was at his job as a senior court officer at 100 Centre Street in New York City when not far away terrorists attacked the World Trade Center. Right away, he began …

1 05, 2024

Study: California’s 2023 Snowy Rescue from Megadrought a Freak Event

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Last year’s snow deluge in California, which quickly erased a two decade long megadrought, was essentially a once-in-a-lifetime rescue from above, a new study found. Don’t get used to it because with climate change the 2023 California snow bonanza —a …

1 05, 2024

South Florida ‘Butt Lift’ Surgery Clinic Linked to 15 Drug-Resistant Bacteria Infections

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Florida and federal health officials have determined that 15 infections from a drug-resistant bacteria have been linked to a south Florida clinic that performed Brazilian “butt lift” surgeries in 2022 and 2023. “Multiple lapses in infection control and prevention were …

1 05, 2024

‘Dirty Dozen’ Unsafe Employers Putting Workers at Risk

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A retail giant, a space launch operation, a major food processor, the nation’s two biggest rideshare providers and a large healthcare system are among those entities marked as being among the most unsafe employers. The National Council for Occupational Safety …

1 05, 2024

Newspapers Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement Over AI Training

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A group of newspapers, including the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune, sued Microsoft and OpenAI in New York federal court on Tuesday, accusing them of misusing reporters’ work to train their generative artificial-intelligence systems. The eight newspapers, owned …