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Some hotels on the Oregon coast are resisting a new tsunami awareness initiative. The city of Seaside has given hotels key holders that contain warnings of a potential tsunami and evacuation instructions, in an effort to inform visitors about the … The post Some Hotels in Oregon Coastal Town Resist Tsunami Awareness Initiative appeared first…

Officials are considering revising tsunami hazard maps after researchers found the Ventura fault line in Southern California is much more dangerous than previously believed. The Los Angeles Times reports that new geological research shows that the Ventura fault, is capable … The post Ventura Earthquake Fault Places California at Risk for Tsunami appeared first on…

Five years after the nation’s worst offshore oil spill, the industry is working on drilling even further into the risky depths beneath the Gulf of Mexico to tap massive deposits once thought unreachable. Opening this new frontier, miles below the … The post 5 Years After BP Spill, Companies Looking to Drill Even Deeper appeared…

The United Nations’ weather agency has removed “Isis” from a list of future Pacific hurricane names, deeming it inappropriate given that the extremist Islamic State group has used ISIS as an acronym. World Meteorological Organization spokeswoman Clare Nullis in Geneva … The post UN Weather Agency Scratches ‘Isis’ From Storm Name List appeared first on…

For decades, claims staff have tried to figure out case values using litigation research vendors and expensive mock trials. Though Magna Legal Services, a national company, offers verdict searches too, its clients wanted something more refined. After a year of … The post New Case Evaluation Tool Attempts to Replicate Jury Pool appeared first on…

MedRisk, Inc., the leader in managed physical medicine and diagnostic imaging services in workers’ compensation, has created a new Functional Capacity Evaluation program to provide claims professionals more effective decision-making tools and improve patient care. FCEs can be used to … The post MedRisk Launches Functional Capacity Evaluation Program appeared first on Claims Journal. Source:…

State police say a woman blames her coffee-drinking pet parrot for distracting her moments before she crashed her car into a guardrail in Pennsylvania. Troopers from Uniontown say the 35-year-old woman was driving on a South Union Township road just … The post Pennsylvania Woman Blames Coffee-Drinking Parrot for Car Crash appeared first on Claims…

The next generation of cyberattacks will be more sophisticated, more difficult to detect and more capable of wreaking untold damage on the nation’s computer systems. So the U.S. Department of Defense has given a $3 million grant to a team … The post Utah Researchers Work on Way to Thwart Next Generation of Cyberattacks appeared…

Canadian startup Clearpath Robotics Ltd. raised its first round of institutional funding as it develops technology to automate everything from lawnmowers to dump trucks. Clearpath, whose customers include Deere & Co., Honda Motor Co. Ltd., and Google Inc., raised C$14 … The post Clearpath Robotics Funding to Push Driverless Dump Trucks appeared first on Claims…

Zurich Insurance Group AG, Switzerland’s largest insurer, is shrinking office space at a key unit and will ask staff to share desks to help reverse a drop in earnings. The steps are needed to help the firm lower the combined … The post Staff to Share Desks as Zurich Pushes Profit Increase appeared first on…