Vietnam Flood Deaths Climb as Heavy Rain Drenches Coffee Region
The death toll in Vietnam from days of severe flooding has climbed to 43 as heavy rain drenches coffee-producing regions in the central highlands and waters remain high in some tourism areas. Around 61,000 people have been evacuated and half …
POSTED NOVEMBER 21, 2025 12:02 PM |
Silent Cyber Threats: How ‘Shadow AI’ Could Undermine Digital Health Defenses
Across Canada, doctors and nurses are quietly using public artificial-intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Gemini to write clinical notes, translate discharge summaries or summarize patient data. But even though these services offer speed and convenience, they also …
POSTED NOVEMBER 21, 2025 11:23 AM |
Ex-Lloyd’s CEO Lost $17 Million AIG Job After Office Romance
American International Group Inc.’s announcement last week that it was parting ways with incoming President John Neal stunned insurance industry observers and raised questions about what caused the veteran executive to lose a $17 million job before he’d even started. …
POSTED NOVEMBER 21, 2025 9:24 AM |
Viewpoint: Sins of Policy Interpretation. A Call to Repentance
Written words have an intended meaning. Fair-minded readers try to grasp that meaning. But other readers impute motives to the writer either to serve their own ends or to protect the writer from unforeseen consequences. Once, early in my career, …
POSTED NOVEMBER 21, 2025 7:02 AM |
Ohio’s FirstEnergy Ordered to Pay More Than $250M for Bribery Scheme
Ohio utility regulators ordered Akron-based FirstEnergy on Wednesday to pay more than $250 million in fines and refunds as a result of its misconduct in a sweeping Statehouse bribery scandal whose fallout continues five years on. The punishment meted out …
POSTED NOVEMBER 21, 2025 7:00 AM |
P/C Insurer Rankings Down Overall on Higher Costs, Changing Customer Expectations
Rising costs and changing customer expectations are driving satisfaction in the insurance and mortgage industry, according to an American Customer Satisfaction Index study. Among the four industries studied — health insurance, life insurance, property and casualty insurance (P/C), and mortgage …
POSTED NOVEMBER 21, 2025 6:37 AM |
Federal Judge Denies TRO to Marsh in Case Against Former Employees
A federal judge has denied a temporary restraining order against seven former employees of Marsh sued in one of several lawsuits against defectors to join Howden US. Marsh USA early this month filed a lawsuit against the group of former …
POSTED NOVEMBER 21, 2025 6:19 AM |
Europe to Launch Service to Measure Role of Climate Change in Extreme Weather
The EU is launching a service to measure the role climate change is playing in extreme weather events like heatwaves and extreme rain, and experts say this could help governments set climate policy, improve financial risk assessments and provide evidence …
POSTED NOVEMBER 21, 2025 6:10 AM |
SEC’s Epic Post-Shutdown Filing Backlog Risks Stalling US IPOs
Rank-and-file US Securities and Exchange Commission workers have returned to face the paperwork that piled up during the longest government shutdown in US history, and supervisors say the order of the day is “triage.” Deal first with the tasks still …
POSTED NOVEMBER 21, 2025 6:04 AM |
Florida Reforms Are Paying Off for Drivers. Don’t Mess it up With Repeal of PIP
For years, I’ve warned that Florida’s legal climate was out of control — driven not by consumers or local businesses, but by a handful of billboard trial lawyers who made fortunes exploiting loopholes in our laws. Their tactics fueled one …
POSTED NOVEMBER 21, 2025 6:02 AM |