Industry News
Hurricane Humberto will likely bulldoze a path for Tropical Storm Imelda to veer away from the coastal U.S. Southeast, sparing the region from a direct strike. Category 4 Humberto’s winds rose to 145 miles (233 kilometers) per hour as of …
Via: Claims Journal
OpenAI is launching parental controls for ChatGPT, which it announced following a lawsuit alleging a teenager who died by suicide this spring relied on the popular chatbot as a coach. The tools, pushed out to all users Monday, let parents …
Via: Claims Journal
Hackers compromised firewall devices within the U.S. government, according to a senior federal official, amid broader warnings of cyberattacks on widely-used devices manufactured by Cisco Systems, Inc. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, issued an emergency directive …
Via: Claims Journal
Martin Shkreli must face a lawsuit by a digital art collective that owns a one-of-a-kind album by the hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan, and accused the convicted former pharmaceutical executive of copying the album and playing it online without permission. In …
Via: Claims Journal
Of the thousands of residents needing to rebuild after this year’s California wildfires, Andy Weyman would seem especially well positioned. The TV and stage director had remodeled his Malibu home just five years earlier and had city-approved blueprints in hand, …
Via: Claims Journal
A New York judge ruled Ron Perelman was not entitled to $400 million from insurers over alleged damage to an Andy Warhol and four other paintings from a 2018 fire at his Hamptons home. Justice Joel M. Cohen’s Friday decision …
Via: Claims Journal
BMW is recalling over 196,000 vehicles in the U.S. as the engine starter relay may corrode, leading to overheating and short circuit, increasing the risk of a fire, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Friday. The issue …
Via: Claims Journal
Jaguar Land Rover’s production shutdown after a cyberattack is hitting businesses in Britain’s West Midlands region, a survey showed on Friday, with firms already making redundancies or cutting staff hours in response. The government is considering financial support for the …
Via: Claims Journal
Storm Humberto has reached hurricane strength as it churns across the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. Humberto’s top winds clocked in at 75 miles (121 kilometers) per hour, according to an update from the U.S. …
Via: Claims Journal
Entire safes being carried out of businesses, vehicles smashing through doors, devastating fires at indoor growing facilities—and our occasional, boring B.I. claim. Those are some of the tales from panel of insurance professionals at Insurance Journal’s annual Insuring Cannabis Summit, …
Via: Claims Journal