Archive for July 2025
Air India Junior Pilot Asked Captain Why He Turned off Fuel Switches
A cockpit voice recording of doomed Air India Flight 171 indicates the younger co-pilot asked his colleague why he turned off the fuel-supply switches, people familiar with the matter say. Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreTesla’s Autopilot System in Spotlight at Trial Over Student Killed While Stargazing
A rare trial against Elon Musk’s car company began this week in Miami where a jury will decide if it is partly to blame for the death of a stargazing university student after a runaway Tesla sent her flying 75 … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreCybersecurity Bosses Growing Increasingly Worried About AI Attacks and Misuse
Nearly a quarter of cybersecurity bosses said their companies have experienced an attack powered by artificial intelligence in the past year, according to a new survey in which AI risk emerged as the defining challenge. The number of AI-enabled attacks … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreNew Book Proposes Four-Prong Legal Strategy to Negate Nuclear Verdicts
Leaders at one of the largest national insurance defense firms believe they have identified the causes of nuclear verdicts—and developed a comprehensive litigation strategy that negates them. A new book about that strategy and the data behind it will be … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreRYZE Names Poole Executive Vice President of Operations
RYZE Claim Solutions named Randy Poole executive vice president of operations. Poole will oversee national operations, support acquisition integrations and work on expanding the company’s use of its artificial intelligence platform. He has more than 20 years of experience in … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreUnited Natural Foods Projects up to $400M Annual Sales Hit After Cyber Breach
United Natural Foods on Wednesday flagged about $350 million to $400 million hit to its fiscal 2025 net sales from an unauthorized activity on its internal networks. The grocery distributor took certain systems offline after the activity was discovered on … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreTrump Administration Sued by US States for Cutting Disaster Prevention Grants
A group of 20 mostly Democrat-led U.S. states filed a lawsuit on Wednesday seeking to block the Trump administration from terminating a multibillion-dollar grant program that funds infrastructure upgrades to protect against natural disasters. The lawsuit filed in Boston federal … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreTrump’s Auto Safety Pick Promises Rapid Self-Driving Deployment
President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the nation’s top car safety regulator pledged to prioritize safety while at the same time making it easier for automakers to deploy-self driving cars. Jonathan Morrison, who was nominated by Trump on February 11 … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreFirst-Half 2025 Insured Losses From Natural Cats Hit $100B, Driven by US Events
Global insured losses during the first half of this year were at least $100 billion, and more than 90% of that total was driven by wildfires and severe convective storms in the U.S., anew report from Aon shows. Accordign to … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreCentral Texas Floods Highlight State’s Risky Profile, Triple-I Analysis Finds
The catastrophic floods in central Texas on July 4 occurred in an area where fewer than 3% of homeowners have flood insurance through the National Flood Insurance Program, serving as another example of why Texas has one of the highest … Source: Claims Journal
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