22 08, 2025

AM Best Revises Outlooks to Stable for Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Group

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AM Best has revised the outlooks to stable from negative and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings (Long-Term ICR) of “a” (Excellent) of Southern Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance Company, Colorado Farm …

22 08, 2025

Just 35 Complaints of Debanking Cite Political Bias Despite Trump Order

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Less than one percent of customers who filed detailed complaints about checking or savings account closures with the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over the last 13 years accused banks of acting for political or religious reasons, even as the …

22 08, 2025

Bank of America Says Autonomous Vehicles Can Boost Insurers’ Profitability

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The shift to autonomous vehicles represents a great unknown for the auto insurance industry, but to analysts at Bank of America Corp. it will be a potential goldmine. Investors are concerned about liability when driverless cars become more mainstream. Under …

22 08, 2025

‘What About Legacy Admissions?’ Critics Ask as Trump Presses Colleges for Merit

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As President Donald Trump attempts to reshape college admissions, he’s promising a new era of fairness, with an emphasis on merit and test scores and a blind eye toward diversity. Yet the Republican president’s critics — and some allies — …

22 08, 2025

People Moves: Montoya Joins Liberty Naranjo as VP, Producer; Alliant Human Capital Names Chalmers SVP

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Montoya Joins Liberty Naranjo as VP, Producer The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers (Liberty), headquartered in Gainesville, Florida, named Brittany Montoya vice president and producer at Liberty Naranjo, Liberty’s high-growth Northern California office led by Managing Partners Jonathan Naranjo and Michael …

22 08, 2025

Baltimore Shipping Channel Reopened After Explosion on Ship Near 2024 Bridge Collapse

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Investigators on Tuesday were trying to determine what caused an explosion aboard a cargo ship laden with coal as it departed Baltimore’s harbor for East Africa. Officials said no one was injured in the blast Monday evening, which prompted a …

22 08, 2025

Hundreds May Have Been Exposed to Rabies in Grand Teton National Park Cabins

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Health officials are working to alert hundreds of people in dozens of states and several countries who may have been exposed to rabies in bat-infested cabins in Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park over the past few months. As of Friday, …

22 08, 2025

Musk, X Corp to Settle $500-Million Lawsuit Over Twitter Firings

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Elon Musk and his social media company X Corp have reached a tentative agreement to settle a lawsuit filed by former Twitter employees who said they were owed $500 million in severance pay. Attorneys for X Corp and the former …

22 08, 2025

It’s the Time of Year for Cape Verde Hurricanes, the Longest and Most Powerful Storms

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They are the hurricanes of legend, the bowling balls that cross the entire Atlantic Ocean, menaced ships of yore and make the long, curved lines on the hurricane charts. Cape Verde storms, named for the group of islands about 450 …

22 08, 2025

How Hurricanes, Fires and Floods Put Drugs and Medical Supplies at Risk

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When Hurricane Helene barreled across several southern states last fall, it destroyed homes and killed more than 150 people. The storm also took out one of the country’s main factories producing intravenous fluid bags widely used in hospitals. The ensuing …