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Despite a mild deterioration in technical results among Mexico's insurance companies, AM Best is maintaining its stable market segment outlook based on significantly improved premium growth in line with the [...]

Social inflation continues to test the ability of casualty insurers with unpredictable and excessive claim costs, David Blades, AM Best associate director of industry research and analytics, and Justin Aimone, [...]

In the evolving financial landscape, insurance companies are encountering many challenges and opportunities in managing their assets effectively. With shifting market dynamics, regulatory changes and emerging technologies, it's crucial for [...]

Real estate, hedge funds, private equity, stocks and credit instruments create many opportunities for investment managers. A panel of industry leaders and experts spoke with AM Best TV about the [...]

In 'Empresses of Seventh Avenue,' the fashion writer Nancy MacDonell tells the story of the New York women who created modern style. EMPRESSES OF SEVENTH AVENUE: World War II, New [...]

Picking and placing parts is one of the most common robotic applications. However, there is often a trade-off between high accuracy for a repetitive motion and reliability in an unstructured [...]

Augmented reality (AR) technology is a key ingredient of Industry 4.0 and digital manufacturing initiatives. It brings components of the digital world into a person's perception of reality. AR layers [...]

Assembling products that contain dissimilar materials has challenged engineers for decades. However, a new production process developed at the University of Missouri may change that. The Freeform Multi-material Assembly Process [...]

It's not unusual for families supporting multiple children with disabilities to need to look to the community for opportunities to have the help that they need. These opportunities can help [...]

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. CAUSE LAWYERS AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS' DISCONTENTS II. INTERVIEWS AND INTERVIEWEES A. Origin Stories B. Economics of Practice C. Selection of Cases and Other Projects D. Comparison to [...], This Essay presents a study of leading U.S. lawyers who represent families in disputes involving the special education of children with disabilities. The research consists of structured interviews of selected attorneys from around the country, and tests whether the conclusions about disability cause lawyers drawn by Waterstone, Stein, and Wilkins (in Disability Cause Lawyers, their pathbreaking study of thirteen leading attorneys involved in disability rights work) hold true for special education cause lawyers. Following the approach in Disability Cause Lawyers, this study considers attorney backgrounds, practice structure and financing, connections to social movement organizations, and modes of advocacy. The study concludes that lawyers who engage in the cause of educational rights of children with disabilities, like other disability cause lawyers, face challenges of litigation financing, wary courts, and a splintered social movement. Nonetheless, they manage to avoid practices that some studies of cause lawyers have criticized: being entranced with paper victories in court, and engaging too much with legal elites and not enough with the social movement. In this way, they also resemble the attorneys in the Disability Cause Lawyers study. The scholarly debate on cause lawyering is extensive and contentious. This Essay makes a unique contribution to that literature as the first study of the work of lawyers who view educational rights for children with disabilities as a social cause and who see themselves as contributing to the movement for educational rights for individuals with disabilities.

As nuclear and thermonuclear verdicts continue to escalate, so will risk for insurers and the cost for the victims and policyholders, industry leaders say. Nuclear verdicts and legal system abuse [...]

Hagerty, a specialty car insurance provider that also considers itself an 'automotive enthusiast' brand, turned to digital media to 'serve our audiences with great storytelling, news and editorial,' said Paul [...]

Autor(en): Karl-Erich Weber Drei Tage voller spannender Einblicke versprach die Begrüßungsveranstaltung für die neuen Auszubildenden des Jahrgangs 2024 bei ElectronicPartner. In der Düsseldorfer Zentrale der https://www.electronicpartner.de/ begannen acht junge Menschen [...]

Screwdriving is a deceptively simple process. All you have to do is insert a fastener and apply torque, right? In fact, a lot can go wrong, and there are many [...]

Epoxies are the most widely used polymers for adhesives, sealants, coatings, encapsulants, potting materials and --impregnating compounds. These versatile materials come in liquids, pastes, and semi-cured films and solids. They [...]

Autor(en): Karl-Erich Weber Ein neuer stromsparender Laser-Multifunktionsdrucker ist ab sofort von Brother verfügbar. Der MFC-L2980DW startet schnell und druckt in Schwarz. Mit dem neuartigen Planar-Heizelement des MFC-L2980DW hat https://www.brother.de/ seine [...]

A critical technique in clinical laboratory testing, mass spectrometry (MS) involves, at its core, examining a mass of molecules. Think of mass spectrometry as a tiny scale for molecules. Yet, [...]

Boston University (BU) recently opened a state-of-the-art facility where students can design, build and test a wide range of robots to solve real-world problems. The Robotics and Autonomous Systems Teaching [...]

Humanoid robots were once the stuff of science fiction. Now, after years of development, human-sized machines equipped with two arms and two legs are slowly making their way into assembly [...]

Few people are better than Trevor Rainbolt at identifying obscure locations online -- but there's even more joy in watching him visit them IRL. Back in 2021, a 22-year-old from [...]

Autor(en): Karl-Erich Weber Die niederländische Europazentrale von AOC International bewirbt die neuen B3-Modelle U27B3A und U27B3AF als Displays mit unglaublich detailliertem Bild und lebendigen Farben. Display-Spezialist https://aoc.com, taiwanischer Hersteller und [...]

Autor(en): Karl-Erich Weber In die Reihe mobiler Steckerladegeräte mit USB-Anschluss hat der niederländische Hersteller den Notebooklader CAC-1914EU und das Reisenetzteil Club 3D CAC-1917 vorgestellt. Die kompakten und leistungsstarken Ladegeräte nutzen [...]

Gaskets are used to prevent leakage of liquids, gases or debris into or out of joined parts. The devices are widely used in a variety of industries, including appliance, automotive, [...]

Chicago has been the home of ASSEMBLY since the first issue of the magazine rolled off the printing press in 1958. Back then, the area's numerous factories were humming with [...]

From Medicare to homeowners insurance claims to car insurance premiums, if it has to do with insurance in Washington state, a podcast produced by the Office of the Insurance Commissioner [...]

New Nationwide research shows commercial drivers are facing increased distraction and safety risks on the road, exacerbated by staffing shortages that are leading to longer hours behind the wheel and [...]

Sixteen years ago, AgencyBloc was founded to help fill a technology gap for the underserved health and benefits market, providing what it considers a 'robust' platform of technological solutions that [...]

AM Best has assigned a stable outlook to the global cyber insurance segment, citing greater demand and favorable intermediate-term growth prospects as take-up rates steadily improve. The newly assigned outlook [...]

Leaders face inherent emotional and intellectual challenges in innovating at scale, including navigating increased shareholder expectations, complex global execution, and the need for digital transformation. Based on a decade of research, the authors have defined a new type of leadership necessary for "scaling genius," a mixture of skills that spark innovation within an organization and across external ecosystems. Tomorrow's executives must master three key roles—architect, bridger, and catalyst, or ABCs—to access the talent and tools they need to drive innovation and impact. As architects, they build the culture and capabilities for innovation. As bridgers, they curate and enable networks of talent inside and outside their organizations to co-create. And as catalysts, they lead beyond their organizational boundaries to energize and activate co-creation across entire ecosystems. These ABCs require leaders to stop relying on formal authority as their source of power and shift to a style that enables diverse talent to collaborate, experiment, and learn together—a challenging yet essential personal transformation. Drawing on real-life examples from Mastercard, Delta, Pfizer, and more, the authors expand on how these characteristics can help leaders move ideas to impact—fast. INSET: What Great Leadership Means to HBR Readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mark Geoghegan describes insurance as if it's a maze, and one that's not easy to solve. So he produces a podcast called The Voice of Insurance that has one main [...]

Cyberthreats are growing to a point where plausible scenarios now include nationwide cellphone network failures, compromised vehicle software and disrupted government and financial networks systems, Brian Behlendorf, the Linux Foundation's [...]

Autor(en): Karl-Erich Weber Value-Added-Distributor Arrow und Scality Inc., ein Anbieter von cyber-resilienter Software aus San Francisco, haben eine Vertriebsvereinbarung für EMEA geschlossen. Ein zentraler Punkt des Distributionsabkommens betrifft https://www.artesca.scality.com/deployment/, laut [...]

Autor(en): Karl-Erich Weber Western Digital stellt mit dem 4 und 8 TB großen SanDisk Desk Drive SSD die bisher größte externe SSD des Speicherherstellers vor und erweitert damit das Portfolio [...]

Byline: GN Bureau Gandhi scholar Thomas Weber's new work examines Mahatma's perceptions of Australia and the ways in which Australians came to understand him Gandhi's Australia, Australia's Gandhi By Thomas [...]

Adhesives are used to assemble a variety of products, including automotive and aerospace parts, appliances, consumer goods, electronics, furniture and medical devices. Among other attributes, adhesive bonding is ideal for [...]

Elkhart, IN, is the recreational vehicle manufacturing capital of the world. It is home to a who's who of companies that mass-produce campers, motor homes and trailers in an endless [...]

Autor(en): Karl-Erich Weber Der taiwanische Hersteller verspricht eine akkurate Darstellung schneller Bewegungen und eine brillante Farbwiedergabe - bei entsprechender Grafikkarte und Rechnerleistung. Mit einer Europa-Premiere beim 'CS2 Major Copenhagen 2024' [...]

Teams from the University of Alabama, Clemson University, the University of Michigan and Ohio State University are engaging in a head-to-head competition. But, it has nothing to do with football. [...]

To get more insurance news than what's posted on the internet--particularly the London insurance market as well as reinsurance--you need to go beyond, or 'behind,' what's written. That's the thrust [...]

Despite reinsurance rate increases decelerating, underwriting discipline is being maintained and profit margins remain healthy enough to absorb higher loss activity than recently experienced, according to a recently issued Best's [...]

Marketing leaders help drive the financial success of the insurance industry, largely with the help of creating strategic marketing campaigns, spreading brand awareness and using social media to help 'make [...]

After Pete Tessier and Curt Wyatt sold their respective property/casualty brokerages in Canada, the two wanted to stay relevant to the industry. They had worked with one another to help [...]

Investors have developed 'strategic asset allocation' amid rising interest rates in recent years to ensure liquidity while avoiding portfolio losses on fixed-income assets with lower coupons, Jennifer Quisenberry chief investment [...]

Since March, hundreds of graduate student workers at Boston University, where I am on the faculty, have been on strike. The strike follows several years of union organizing-and a much […]

A 25-year career in property/casualty insurance and a book series inspired Bryan Falchuk to share new stories about the industry on The Future of Insurance podcast, which blends insights from [...]

Treasury determined that taxpayers are required to allocate and apportion U.S. shareholder deductions (including those for interest expense) to global intangible low-taxed income ("GILTI") in 2019 when it issued final [...]