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Britain’s Parliament building is an architectural masterpiece, a UNESCO World Heritage Site visited by 1 million people a year. It’s also a crumbling, leaky, asbestos-riddled structure at “real and rising” risk of destruction, lawmakers said Wednesday. In a hair-raising report, …

How could the current economic environment affect workers compensation – and the property and casualty insurance industry overall – in 2023? Earlier this month, insurance veteran Robert Hartwig forecasted answers. Hartwig, a clinical associate professor of finance and insurance at …

France and Germany are showing no sign of nearing a compromise on the role of nuclear energy in the European Union’s transition to cleaner energy, highlighting the challenge faced in reaching a deal in the coming weeks to push ahead …

A federal judge in Illinois has dismissed a lawsuit accusing Mondelez International Inc of deceiving consumers into believing its Trident “Original Flavor” gum contained real mint. U.S. District Judge Iain Johnston said it was “fanciful” to believe reasonable consumers would …

LUBBOCK — State investigators have determined a fire and explosion at a Panhandle dairy farm was an accident and started with an engine fire in a manure vacuum truck that was cleaning part of the barn. The April 10 fire …

TULSA, Okla. (AP) – A Native American former student is suing an Oklahoma school district for the removal of an eagle feather from her graduation cap prior to her high school graduation ceremony. The lawsuit filed Monday in Tulsa County …

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT are complicating governments’ efforts to agree laws governing the use of the technology. Here are the latest steps national and international governing bodies are taking to regulate AI tools: …

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) – A southwestern Indiana man allegedly set a fire that gutted a building more than 100 years old that was listed decades ago on the National Register of Historic Places, police said. Charles James Perrin, 25, was …

John Kuhn is now senior vice president, management liability and head of large public at Ascot. Ascot said Kuhn will lead the development and execution of Ascot’s large public D&O strategy, with a focus on underwriting and portfolio management through …

More than 40 years ago, the Illinois legislature sought to reduce the number of defendants in medical malpractice actions by allowing plaintiffs to name health care providers as respondents for the purposes of discovery and convert them to defendants later …