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Lemonade’s Tweet About AI-Driven Fraud Detection Sparks Public Relations Crisis
Lemonade, a five-year-old insurer that went public last year, generated an online uproar with a Twitter post that boasted about its AI-based fraud-detection skills, forcing the carrier to walk back its comments. Lemonade on Wednesday deleted a tweet that said … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreConsumer Reports Drops ‘Top Pick’ Rating for Tesla Model 3
WASHINGTON — Tesla’s decision to remove radar sensors from two of its U.S. vehicles has cost it top safety ratings from a widely followed insurance industry group and the influential Consumer Reports magazine. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreCyclone Lashes India, Bangladesh; 6 Dead, 1.1M Evacuated
NEW DELHI (AP) — Heavy rain and a high tide lashed parts of eastern India and neighboring Bangladesh on Wednesday as a cyclone pushed ashore in an area where more than 1.1 million people were evacuated during a devastating coronavirus … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreRising Global Temperatures ‘Inexorably Closer’ to Climate Tipping Point – U.N.
There is now a 40% chance that global temperatures will temporarily reach 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in the next five years — and these odds are rising, a U.N. report said on Wednesday. This does not yet mean … Source: Claims Journal
Read More3 Arrested in Italy Cable Car Crash; Clamp Deactivated Brake
ROME (AP) — Police arrested three people Wednesday in the cable car disaster that killed 14 people in northern Italy, saying an investigation showed a clamp, intentionally placed on the brake as a patchwork repair, prevented the brake from engaging … Source: Claims Journal
Read MorePork Group Asks USDA to Support Faster Slaughterhouse Speeds
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A group representing pork producers urged the federal government Tuesday to let them continue an effort to speed up the processing of pigs into bacon and ham despite a union’s claim that the increased volume … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreCannabis Boom Creates Fears of Increasing Illicit Trade
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — On a sunny spring day in Southern Oregon’s Illinois Valley, Mason Walker is showing off rows of neatly planted marijuana. “We have a permanent trellising system that’s installed almost in a vineyard style,” Walker, co-owner … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreMexico: Builders Bulldozing Outskirts of Teotihuacan Ruins
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government said Tuesday that a private building project is destroying part of the outskirts of the pre-Hispanic ruin site of Teotihuacan, just north of Mexico City. The Culture Department said it has repeatedly issued … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreJudge Nixes Bayer’s $2B Plan for ‘Closure’ of Roundup Litigation
U.S. judge rejected Bayer’s $2 billion class action proposal aimed at resolving future lawsuits alleging its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, saying in a Wednesday order that parts of the plan were “clearly unreasonable.” U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria in … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreFla. Appellate Court Finds State Farm Can Use Medicare Rules to Reduce Payment in PIP Claim
State Farm was within its rights when it reduced payments in a personal injury protection claim to a medical provider for multiple diagnostic scans that were performed on the same patient during the same visit, the Florida 4th District Court … Source: Claims Journal
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