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Today’s leaders struggle to derive actionable insights from their data. What they need is a claims partner with analytical expertise that will take the time to review findings, compare results, benchmark trends and make recommendations. According to Big Data statistics compiled by Forbes, “the amount of data created, captured, copied, and consumed in the world…
The email smelled as bad as week-old fish: It was a screenshot of a $1,000 cellphone I had supposedly bought on Amazon. I quickly checked my Amazon account. No purchase was recorded. Then I checked my credit card account. Ditto. This was clearly a scam and the real action was the “Amazon” order number and…
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Friday it was requiring emergency inspections for more than 500 additional helicopters worldwide after a fatal Bell helicopter crash in Canada. On Wednesday, the FAA issued an emergency directive requiring main rotor inspections for some Bell model 212, 204 and 205 helicopters covering 140 U.S. helicopters and…
Today’s leaders struggle to derive actionable insights from their data. What they need is a claims partner with analytical expertise that will take the time to review findings, compare results, benchmark trends and make recommendations. According to Big Data statistics compiled by Forbes, “the amount of data created, captured, copied, and consumed in the world…
A layoffs-and-dismissals freeze enacted in Italy when the pandemic started is finally coming to an end for certain industries. Some unions fear there will be a flood of dismissals as a result. Background In February 2020, Italy became the first western country to find itself dealing with the rapid spread of the coronavirus. Within days,…
WASHINGTON—A judge on Friday dismissed Amazon.com’s legal challenge to the Defense Department’s 2019 decision to award a $10 billion JEDI cloud-computing project to rival Microsoft Corp after the Pentagon canceled the contract. Amazon.com had accused then-President Donald Trump, alleging that the former president exerted improper pressure on military officials to steer the contract away from…
Long-sought curbs on unscheduled “surprise” out-of-network health care charges became law at the end of last year with the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021 (CAA), which included a revised version of the bipartisan No Surprises Act. On June 30, the U.S. departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury, along with the Office…
Predictions are in, and the 2021 hurricane season is looming large. Property owners must seek out an insurance partner that can help manage the storm, but also be there long after the winds die down. Hurricane risk continues to grow in both the number of named storms and in the volatility of an individual event….
Plaintiffs challenging California’s efforts to require more diverse boards for companies based in the state may have received a boost recently from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court ruled in June that a corporate shareholder was legally entitled to dispute a gender-diversity law in the Golden State, SB 826, which requires publicly…
