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Are there any questions I can ask myself before starting to write that will help me focus my message? Your effectiveness as a writer depends on how well you identify the reader and respond to his or her needs. Before … Source: Claims Journal

RMS Appoints Silicon Valley Executive as CEO Global catastrophe risk modelling and analytics company, RMS, announced the appointment of Karen White as its new chief executive officer, replacing current CEO and co-founder Hemant Shah. White has served for more than … Source: Claims Journal

Blockchain is a potentially revolutionary technology for all sorts of industries, from finance to food safety, social media and retail. A startup plans to use it in the notoriously opaque world of fine art to verify authenticity. Codex has developed … Source: Claims Journal

Motorists were warned to stay off Northern California mountain roads as a major winter storm was expected to bring heavy snowfall, powerful winds and torrential rains at lower elevations Thursday. Meanwhile predictions of widespread showers across the southern end of … Source: Claims Journal

Drivers stuck at a stoplight with no traffic in sight could get the legal green light to run a red light under legislation that the Utah Department of Transportation vigorously opposes. The measure passed a House committee Tuesday and now … Source: Claims Journal

Like clockwork, the National Rifle Association reduces gun injuries in the US for three days every year – when it holds its annual convention. Authors of a Harvard Medical School report published in the New England Journal of Medicine examined … Source: Claims Journal

U.S. regulators should crack down on railroads which fail to meet a looming deadline to activate systems that safety officials have said could have prevented two recent deadly Amtrak accidents, said top senators on an oversight panel. By year end, … Source: Claims Journal

Australia on Wednesday issued a compulsory recall for all 2.7 million cars fitted with defective Takata airbags in an effort to lift the auto industry’s mixed efforts to fix the fault blamed for at least 23 deaths around the world. … Source: Claims Journal

A powerful nor’easter will roar up the East Coast Friday, putting more than $468 billion of real estate at risk from coastal flooding, dropping heavy snow in some areas and raking the region with wind gusts that could topple trees … Source: Claims Journal

On a recent Friday morning Sam Scott walked through his Texas house for the last time. The Houston Chronicle reports he grabbed a dust mask from his car and entered through the open garage. The door had buckled during Hurricane … Source: Claims Journal