Southern California will clock a few more tense hours as showers continue to soak the burn-scarred landscape around Los Angeles. While the rains are helping fight wildfires that have killed at least 28 and destroyed more than 16,000 structures, they’re …
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Generali Group has launched a new business unit – Global Corporate & Commercial (GC&C) India – within its joint-venture company Future Generali India Insurance. The moves further strengthens Generali’s presence in India’s rapidly growing corporate and commercial insurance segment, the …
Generali Global Corporate & Commercial Enters Launches Business Unit in India Read More »
South Korea released a preliminary report into last month’s deadly Jeju Air Co. crash that offers more detail on the role of bird strikes in the disaster, while still leaving crucial questions unanswered. The report sheds additional light on the …
South Korea’s Preliminary Jeju Air Crash Report Focuses on Bird Strike Read More »
President Donald Trump on Jan. 24 surveyed disaster zones in California and North Carolina and said he was considering “getting rid of” the Federal Emergency Management Agency, offering the latest sign of how he is weighing sweeping changes to the …
Trump Proposes ‘Getting Rid of FEMA’ While Touring Disaster Areas Read More »
The state of Rhode Island last week began a phased relaunch of the HealthyRhode customer portal associated with RIBridges system, which manages many of the state’s social service and benefit programs as well as its health insurance exchange. Officials said …
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Westchester, Chubb’s Excess and Surplus Lines Division, headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, named three leaders for its recently formed new business practices – property, casualty, and financial lines – serving the organization’s digital and middle market, brokerage and programs businesses. Matt …
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Winter Storm Éowyn pummeled Ireland and the UK with hurricane-force winds on Friday, creating blackouts for hundreds of thousands and disrupting travel across northwestern Europe. Éowyn was one of the strongest storms to hit the region and likely set new …
Climate Change Makes Fierce Winter Storms Like Éowyn Even Stronger Read More »
Sweden detained a vessel suspected of damaging a subsea data cable connecting it with Latvia, the third such incident in the Baltic Sea in the past three months. The Security Service said it’s conducting a preliminary investigation into the crime …
Sweden Seizes Ship Suspected of Sabotage in Baltic Sea Read More »
International auditors have been given new guidance on what to check when assessing firms’ environmental, social and governance claims – and how – as part of efforts to increase rigor and consistency, the chair of the industry’s global ethics watchdog …
Auditors Get Tougher Guidelines on Judging Firms’ Environmental Claims Read More »
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has halted all pending environmental litigation and reassigned four career Justice Department attorneys focused on environmental issues, according to three sources familiar with the matter and a pair of memos seen by Reuters on Friday. …
Trump Administration Halts Environmental Litigation, Sidelines Lawyers: Sources Read More »
