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Insurity, a provider of cloud-based software for property and casualty insurance carriers, brokers, and MGAs, today announced that The Builders Group (TBG) has successfully gone live on Insurity Workers’ Comp Suite. This milestone signifies the completion of a deployment that …

RT Specialty, a wholesale distributor of specialty insurance products and services and the wholesale broking specialty of Ryan Specialty, announced that it has opened an office in Detroit and hired David Derigiotis as EVP and office president. Derigiotis joins RT …

One person has died after severe weather tore through parts of the central U.S., including heavy rain in Dallas, a tornado that touched down in the Kansas City area and flash flooding in Kansas that forced firefighters to rescue dozens …

BlackRock Inc. was removed from Texas’ blacklist of companies that boycott fossil fuels, ending a three-year standoff over the environmental policies of the world’s largest asset manager. The move means pension funds and other state-run investment accounts — which manage …

If Stargate’s first AI data center is completed next year as planned, the 900-acre site will need enough round-the-clock electricity to support 300,000 homes. But securing that power isn’t as simple as plugging into the grid. Unlike arch rival Meta …

Corporate investigators found evidence that Chinese hackers broke into an American telecommunications company in the summer of 2023, indicating the country’s attackers penetrated the US communications system earlier than publicly known. Investigators working for the telecommunications firm discovered last year …

Brennan & Co. insurance agency, based in Savannah, Georgia, is now part of Patriot Growth Services, a brokerage and insurance services firm that has grown rapidly since its founding in 2019. Brennan began business in 2005, specializing in commercial marine …

No one was checking IDs or for weapons before a party boat cruise that ended with a shooting that hurt 11 people in South Carolina over Memorial Day weekend, a lawyer for one of the victims said. Police have announced …

Longtime Alabama insurance agent and former congressional candidate Ken McFeeters announced he is running for governor of Alabama next year, casting himself as a political outsider and accusing his opponent U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville of being a “part of the …

OpenAI is seeing an increasing number of Chinese groups using its artificial intelligence technology for covert operations, which the ChatGPT maker described in a report released Thursday. While the scope and tactics employed by these groups have expanded, the operations …

The Trump administration said Wednesday there is no viable path forward for California’s High-Speed Rail project and warned it may rescind $4 billion in government funding in the coming weeks. The U.S. Transportation Department released a 315-page report from the …

A senior executive at the UK’s National Wealth Fund has criticized the country’s banks and money managers for what he characterized as their failure to embrace the risk levels needed to drive the low-carbon transition. “What I’m not seeing is …

A cargo ship that was abandoned in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after catching fire Tuesday was carrying cars from several Chinese automakers, according to people familiar with the matter. The Morning Midas was shipping around 3,000 cars from …

A Republican attempt to block states from enforcing new artificial intelligence rules over the next decade has drawn growing bipartisan objections, exposing tension in Washington over allowing for more unchecked AI development. The proposal, buried on pages 278 and 279 …

China is considering imposing safety requirements for driving assistance systems, as more of the country’s automakers offer such features on cars to attract buyers. A post published by China’s national standards database on Wednesday showed that the country’s Ministry of …

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told a Senate hearing that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is “fully staffed” with weather forecasters and scientists after concerns were raised about some offices losing 24-hour staffing ahead of hurricane season. “We …

Former customers of the late Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff will recoup $498.3 million under a settlement on Wednesday with the liquidators of two Luxembourg funds, boosting their recovery to about $15.26 billion. The Luxembourg Investment Fund and Luxembourg Investment Fund …

While major corporate cyber hacking makes the news nearly every day, what about hackers in homes? As personal lives and residences become more intertwined with the internet, consumers are at greater risk of personal cybercrime. As risk grows, so does …

Hackers are tricking employees at companies in Europe and the Americas into installing a modified version of a Salesforce-related app, allowing the hackers to steal reams of data, gain access to other corporate cloud services and extort those companies, Google …

Three women are suing Baltimore’s public school system, alleging they were sexually abused by a special education teacher decades ago while administrators failed to protect students from his predatory behavior. One of the plaintiffs was 14 when she alleges the …