Claims News Recap
September 10th - September 14th
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Friday, September 14th, 2018
Hurricane Florence is making landfall in North Carolina, creeping ashore at 6 mph — but bringing winds of 90 mph, a massive storm surge, and a rain system that will soak much of the state and South Carolina for days. Forecasters warn of "life —threatening, catastrophic flash flooding." Florence’s eyewall reached shore near Wilmington, N.C., just before 6 a.m. ET Friday morning....
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Thursday, September 13th, 2018
Artificial intelligence is the new electricity. We hear it will fundamentally shift the balance of power between labor and capital, mostly by rendering labor obsolete. It will enable and empower transformative technologies that will rearrange the sociopolitical landscape and may lead to humanity’s transcendence (or extinction) within our lifetimes....
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Wednesday, September 12th, 2018
More than a half dozen residents and businesses have filed a lawsuit against the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad accusing it of starting the 416 Fire that scorched 54,129 acres of mostly U.S. Forest Service land. The lawsuit, filed Friday in 6th Judicial District Court in Durango, contends that the 416 Fire, which sparked June 1 about 10 miles north of Durango, was started by burning material emitted from a coal engine that travels along the 50-mile route from Durango to Silverton....
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2018
As Hurricane Florence churned toward an eventual Eastern Seaboard landfall, evacuations were imposed for parts of three East Coast states Tuesday and millions of Americans prepared for what could become one of the most catastrophic hurricanes to hit the region in decades. Hurricane Florence’s size is "staggering," National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham warned. "We could cover several states easily with the cloud cover alone....
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Monday, September 10th, 2018
The Port Allen was taking on so much water during a storm last summer that the captain and crew of the Foxy 3 tugboat released the hopper barge off Port Chester Harbor and allowed it to sink into Long Island Sound. Travelers Property Casualty Co. paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in claims for the loss of the vessel and cargo and for salvaging the wreck....
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