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Business News: Confie, Ringler Associates, V3 Insurance Partners, TriageLogic

Confie Acquires Auto Insurance America Confie, a national provider of personal and commercial lines insurance, announced the acquisition of Auto Insurance America from Minn.-based Western National Mutual Insurance Company. Auto Insurance America is a leading provider of non-standard auto insurance …

Forget Cell Phone Spying, Smart Appliance Privacy Questioned

Alexa, are you spying on me? It’s a fair question in light of attempts by authorities investigating the slaying of an Arkansas man to obtain voice recordings collected by an Amazon Echo speaker and its Alexa digital assistant. Yet the …

Montana Bill Recommends Leaving Air Ambulance Patients out of Cost Negotiations

Montana lawmakers are scheduled to take up a bill that would require air ambulance providers and insurance companies to negotiate payments for services, even if the provider is not in network with the patient’s insurance company. Senate Bill 44 follows …

Senators Urge NTSB to Review Train Conductor Sleep Apnea Tests

Five U.S. senators have called on the National Transportation Safety Board to conduct a comprehensive review of all passenger railroads’ implementation of sleep apnea testing for engineers and inward-facing cameras on trains. A letter, sent Sunday to NTSB Chairman Christopher …

South Carolina Hasn’t Issued Charges for Price Gouging During Hurricane Matthew

A newspaper analysis shows the South Carolina attorney general has initiated no prosecutions involving about 400 complaints of price gouging by businesses during Hurricane Matthew. Records obtained by The Island Packet and The Beaufort Gazette show the office of Republican …

Falsified Medical Certificates Threaten 6,600 Trucker Driver Licenses

Medical certificates given to truckers nationwide by a chiropractor operating out of an Atlanta, Ga., truck stop will soon be revoked, federal authorities said. Prosecutors say Anthony Lefteris was authorized to perform the exams, which are meant to ensure that …

McAfee: Cyber Criminals to Target Cloud Technology, IoT Systems

Hackers are expected to take advantage of vulnerabilities associated with cloud technology and the Internet of Things, according to McAfee Labs 2017 Threat Predictions report, released late last year. Other predictions, including a major advancement in threat intelligence sharing, hacktivists …

Waymo Autonomous Minivan to Start Test Drives This Month

Waymo, Google’s self-driving car division, will start testing its new fleet of minivans on public roads in California and Arizona later this month. The minivans, built in collaboration with Fiat Chrysler, are Chrysler Pacifica hybrids outfitted with Waymo’s own suite …

U.S. Seeing Increasingly Large-Scale Tornado Outbreaks

The frequency of large-scale tornado outbreaks is increasing in the United States, particularly when it comes to the most extreme events, according to research recently published in Science. The study by researchers including Joel E. Cohen, a visiting scholar at …

NICB Warns Puffing Could Lead to Fine

As frigid temperatures and wintry blasts have hit a large section of the nation, drivers are increasingly “puffing” – warming up their parked vehicles before heading out on the road. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) warns that leaving an …

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