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A onetime North Dakota Teacher of the Year who received help from students and faculty to ward off several Red River floods has decided he can no longer fight both the river and Fargo officials who wanted his house off … Source: Claims Journal

Museum visitors snapping selfies are driving a spike in accidents that are putting exhibits at risk, according to Linda Sandell, senior vice president and chief underwriting officer with Huntington T. Block, a fine art insurance broker based in Washington D.C. … Source: Claims Journal

The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association (TWIA) remains financially sound and ready for the 2017 hurricane season by once again securing $4.9 billion in total funding. With $4.9B in total funding secured, #TWIA is financially sound and ready for the 2017 … Source: Claims Journal

Research out of the University of New Hampshire has found that some roads, as far as two miles from the shore, are facing a new hazard that currently cannot be seen by drivers – rising groundwater caused by increasing ocean … Source: Claims Journal

A massive landslide that engulfed Central California’s Highway 1 has added 13 acres to the coastline. Based on new aerial photographs, the May 20 slide in Big Sur created a bulge of land the size of 10 football fields, the … Source: Claims Journal

In almost every writing skills seminar, there comes a moment in which a participant finds that one of the notions about writing that he or she has held since elementary school is either no longer valid or is dead wrong. … Source: Claims Journal

Nest Labs is adding Google’s facial recognition technology to a high-resolution home-security camera, offering a glimpse of a future in which increasingly intelligent, internet-connected computers can see and understand what’s going on in people’s homes. The Nest Cam IQ, unveiled … Source: Claims Journal

Forecasters at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center say the Atlantic could see another above-normal hurricane season this year. For the upcoming Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 through November 30, forecasters predict a 45 percent chance of an above-normal … Source: Claims Journal

Nearly 6.9 million homes along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts are at potential risk of damage from hurricane storm surge inundation with a total reconstruction cost value (RCV) of more than $1.5 trillion (Table 1), according to the 2017 Storm … Source: Claims Journal

When building codes are adopted and enforced, there is a substantial reduction in loss, according to Christopher Miller, technical director for ISO’s Building Code Effectiveness Grading Schedule (BCEGS). During an audio interview with Claims Journal, Miller explained that it’s not … Source: Claims Journal