Insurance
Areawide Insurance Advisors Joins Leavitt Group Texas Select
Areawide Insurance Advisors has joined Leavitt Group Texas Select, strengthening the agency’s presence in the Bryan and College Station area with the added resources of Leavitt Group, a national brokerage. Mike Kilgore, owner of Areawide Insurance Advisors, will continue to …
Read More South Texas Homebuilders Warn ICE Arrests Have Upended Industry
One morning in mid-November, Mario Guerrero, the executive director of the South Texas Builders Association, was checking a group chat when a video of federal agents detaining people from a construction site popped up. He watched the video of Immigration …
Read More Explosion at Nursing Home in Pennsylvania Kills Two, Injures Others
An explosion at a Pennsylvania nursing home that caused the building to collapse and took the lives of two people and injured about 20 others is under investigation. The explosion occurred at Bristol Health & Rehab Center in Bristol Township …
Read More Georgia Regulators Approve Huge Electric Generation Increase for Data Centers
Georgia’s only private electric utility plans to increase power capacity by 50% after state regulators on Friday agreed 5-0 that the plan is needed to meet projected demand from data centers. It would be one of the biggest build-outs in …
Read More Massachusetts Approves Reorganizations, Mergers for Andover Companies
Massachusetts regulatory officials have approved a plan of reorganizations and mergers for two domestic mutual insurers, Merrimack Mutual Fire Insurance Co. and Cambridge Mutual Fire Insurance Co. The plan calls for a reorganization of each mutual as a domestic stock …
Read More People Moves: Great Bay Insurance Group Makes Leadership Changes
The Great Bay Insurance Group, headquartered in West Atlantic City, New Jersey, named Brian S. Schleider executive vice president and chief financial officer. Schleider joined the group in March 2020 as chief financial officer. He has 35 years of industry …
Read More Underwriter, Actuary Fears of AI Drop; Work Needed on Collaboration
You’re just about as likely to find a commercial P/C underwriter or actuary who is unconcerned about the increased use of AI in insurance as you are to find one that’s afraid of being replaced by AI. That’s what a …
Read More The Rise of Deepfake Cyberbullying Poses a Growing Problem for Schools
Schools are facing a growing problem of students using artificial intelligence to transform innocent images of classmates into sexually explicit deepfakes. The fallout from the spread of the manipulated photos and videos can create a nightmare for the victims. The …
Read More Head of EEOC Urges White Men to Report Discrimination
The head of the U.S. agency for enforcing workplace civil rights posted a social media call-out urging white men to come forward if they have experienced race or sex discrimination at work. “Are you a white male who has experienced …
Read More New York Times Reporter Sues Google, xAI, OpenAI Over Chatbot Training
An investigative reporter best known for exposing fraud at Silicon Valley blood-testing startup Theranos sued Elon Musk’s xAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta Platforms and Perplexity on Monday for using copyrighted books without permission to train their artificial intelligence systems. New …
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