Newly formed Tropical Storm Delta could make landfall as a hurricane in the northern Gulf Coast later this week, forecasters warned, while Tropical Storm Gamma killed at least six people after coming ashore in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula over the weekend.
Wildfires in California have burned a record 4 million acres since the start of 2020, charring more land in the past nine months than during the previous three years combined. The results are devastating.
It started the same way. In March 2020, the headlines were overtaken by news of a killer virus, COVID-19. Soon after, we were advised to stay home, not to go to school or work and to stay apart.
Telemedicine services can happen in real time, such as through a Zoom call or another video call provider. They could even be asynchronous — for example, a patient uploads their health data for review and comment at a later time by their physician.
Insurance companies are getting even more time to implement a new rule for valuing long-term contracts following a vote by the Financial Accounting Standards Board on Wednesday.<br />
More evacuations were ordered Thursday in Northern California as wildfire-weary residents braced for a return of powerful winds that could stoke a blaze burning in the region’s wine country.
A dear friend of mine starts out coinsurance conversations (yes, we actually sit around and talk about this sort of thing, usually with a malted adult beverage) with the following disclaimer/statement/warning: "Coinsurance is evil and must be destroyed."
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), part of the Department of Commerce, released a report in May predicting a strong chance of a busy Atlantic hurricane season this year. So far, that prediction has held true.
Five months after an Easter night tornado sent trees crashing through her roof and rain cascading into her kitchen, Lauren Cameron’s home was still draped in blue tarps, wide open to the weather.
Insurance and reinsurance marketplace Lloyd’s of London has launched a new business interruption policy for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) that uses a parametric trigger to protect against IT disruption or downtime.
In years past, insurers dreaded the advent of a trial at the end of a year. The thought was that juries were likely to be more generous with their awards and that any goodwill would be given exclusively to the plaintiff.
Anthem Inc said on Wednesday it would pay $39.5 million as part of a settlement with U.S. states attorneys general following an investigation into a massive cyber-attack at the company in 2015.
Pennsylvania’s Medical Marijuana Act provides a private cause of action to workers, allowing state-sanctioned, card-carrying medical pot patients to sue their employers for alleged discrimination based on their lawful use of the drug, a federal judge in Philadelphia ruled on an issue of first impression.
Cannabis farmers in the communities of Post Mountain and Trinity Pines, California are refusing to evacuate their cultivation sites even as the August Complex wildfires close in and weather forecasters predict more fire-friendly conditions, the Associated Press reports.
