Posts by Y@DminG

AIG could pay dearly for refusing to budge on a claim settlement offer of $2.65 million for nearly a year after receiving estimates that a jury would likely award the claimant $7.5 million for her injuries. A jury did eventually … Source: Claims Journal

Hackers have stolen login credentials from thousands of people working with the U.K.’s National Health Service, putting the organization at risk of further cyberattacks, according to researchers. The data theft is linked to a kind of malicious software known as … Source: Claims Journal

The Trump administration has cleared the way for Zoox, the autonomous-vehicle subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc., to demonstrate self-driving cars that lack traditional driving controls like steering wheels. U.S. auto safety regulators granted an exemption to federal vehicle safety standards for … Source: Claims Journal

A climate nonprofit is planning to revive a key federal database tracking billion-dollar weather disasters that the Trump administration formally stopped updating in May. The database—which was produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration—is set to return this fall … Source: Claims Journal

Wildfires ravaged vineyards and farms in southern France, leaving one person dead and forcing residents to flee as flames shut roads and cut power to thousands of homes. About 1,800 firefighters, assisted by aircraft, are working to control the outbreaks … Source: Claims Journal

The owners of the cargo ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge are suing the company that built the vessel, alleging negligence in the design of a critical switchboard on the ship. Grace Ocean Private and Synergy Marine … Source: Claims Journal

Global insured losses from natural catastrophes reached $80 billion in the first half of 2025, preliminary estimates from Swiss Re Institute showed on Wednesday, driven by wildfires in California and severe thunderstorms in the United States. The estimate nearly doubles … Source: Claims Journal

Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk said on Tuesday it has filed 14 new lawsuits in the United States against the sale of unapproved versions of semaglutide, the main ingredient in its popular weight-loss and diabetes drugs, Wegovy and Ozempic. The new … Source: Claims Journal

A flaw in the chips used to secure tens of millions of Dell laptops could have given attackers the ability to steal sensitive data as well as maintain access even after a fresh operating system install, researchers with Cisco Talos … Source: Claims Journal

A newly released decade-long study by the Workers’ Compensation Research Institute indicates that claims initiated by nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs) didn’t lead to negative outcomes and suggested some benefits when compared to those led by primary care … Source: Claims Journal