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Supreme Court Rejects Trump Appeal of Carroll Sex-Abuse Verdict

The US Supreme Court left intact a jury’s finding that Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll, putting her in line to collect a $5 million award from the president. The justices without comment or noted …

A Super Yacht Armada Came to Miami, Leaving a Marine Graveyard in Its Wake

Not far from the super yachts docked outside the island palaces of Miami’s new billionaire class, smaller boats abandoned by people who couldn’t afford them languish in Biscayne Bay. Since October, Miami Beach police have identified and removed about 140 …

Bayer’s Supreme Court Win in Roundup Case No ‘Silver Bullet’

After years of legal setbacks that have cost billions of dollars over its top-selling Roundup weedkiller, Bayer AG finally got a resounding win in the biggest tribunal of all. The US Supreme Court threw out a jury verdict won by …

Frustration Grows in Venezuela as Earthquake Death Toll Rises

Tensions flared Saturday as desperation grew in Venezuela’s state of La Guaira as rescuers and civilians searched for earthquake survivors and the death toll rose sharply to 1,430. Families reported at least 68,900 people missing Saturday, three days after the …

NAIC Says Data Taken in Hack Has Been Published Online

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) now says data taken earlier this month from its information technology systems has been published online by the hackers responsible. In a short note posted midday June 25, NAIC said it was “actively …

US DFC And World Bank’s MIGA Setting Up Political Risk Insurance for Ukraine Fund

The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation has agreed with the World Bank’s guarantee arm MIGA to create a political risk insurance framework for a U.S.-Ukrainian reconstruction investment fund. The agreement, signed on Thursday on the sidelines of a Ukraine recovery …

How Insurers Know When It’s Time to Scale AI

After several years of experimentation with generative AI and machine learning, many carriers have moved beyond asking whether AI has a role in insurance. Instead, they’re grappling with a different question: How do organizations know when an AI pilot is …