Axios, a tool widely used to develop software applications, was compromised overnight, introducing a vulnerability in a key part of the internet’s plumbing. An unknown hacker was able to breach one of the few accounts that can release new versions of Axios late Monday and published malicious versions of it. Axios, or Axios NPM, is a client that software developers use to send requests to servers — allowing software to connect to the web — and is downloaded about 80 million times every week. NPMs are reusable packages of code that make it faster to develop software. The hacked code…
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Farmers Insurance has announced a plan to grow its agency force over the next year, and expects to appoint nearly 1,700 new agency owners—one of the largest single-year expansions in Farmers’ history. The recruitment drive is aimed at fueling organic growth and revitalizing the insurer’s distribution network. As part of the plan, Farmers is launching a new Elite Owner Program to attract high-net-worth agency owners with added support and financial incentives for rapid scaling. “We’re doubling down on the entrepreneur model to drive our next chapter of growth,” said Ken Walton, president of distribution at Farmers. “This is about thinking…
Life expectancy at birth in the U.S. increased 0.6 years from 78.4 years in 2023 to 79.0 years in 2024, its highest-ever level. However, the average life expectancy in comparable countries was 82.7 years, about 3.7 years longer than in the U.S., reflecting a persistently wide difference in life expectancy between the U.S. and comparable countries. This chart collection examines how life expectancy in the U.S. compares to that of other similarly large and wealthy countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The countries included in the comparison are Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden,…
The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday that it was imposing new safety restrictions at San Francisco International Airport that will limit some landings and lead to significant delays. The FAA said the airport will experience delays due to a runway repaving project and the FAA decision to prohibit flights from making side-by-side approaches to San Francisco’s parallel east-west runways in clear weather. The FAA is exploring ways to safely increase the arrival rate at the 13th-busiest U.S. airport. The two measures will reduce maximum rates from 54 flights per hour to 36. The FAA does not plan to lift…
Now, as Director and Market Leader for Insurance at Google Cloud, she spends her days helping carriers, brokers, and InsurTech founders figure out how to turn AI from a buzzword on a strategy deck into something that actually moves the needle — new revenue, competitive advantage, faster decisions.
A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld a ruling by a lower court to approve the Justice Department decision to dismiss a criminal case against Boeing, which allowed the planemaker to avoid prosecution on a charge stemming from two fatal 737 MAX plane crashes that killed 346 people. Judge Reed O’Connor, of the U.S. District Court in Fort Worth, Texas, in November said he had no authority to reject the government’s decision to make a deal with Boeing, even though he said it “fails to secure the necessary accountability to ensure the safety of the flying public.” A three-judge panel…
Five people were killed when a train and van collided in rural Mississippi, near Wiggins, authorities said. All five killed were in the van, Stone County Coroner Wayne Flurry said. The lone surviving van passenger, a 23-year-old woman, was flown to a hospital, Flurry said. No one aboard the train was reported injured. The crash occurred when a Canadian Pacific Kansas City freight train collided with a vehicle in a crossing, the railroad said in a statement. The location was near the town of Wiggins, about 45 miles (72 kilometers) northwest of Biloxi. The Stone County Sheriff’s Office was investigating…
Garrett Droege was thinking about it anyway. Before digital assets were a coverage category, he was already there — founding startups, advising the U.S. Treasury on stablecoins, and quietly building the kind of expertise the industry would eventually have to catch up to.
Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News Last August, as part of the federal government’s crackdown on people in the country illegally, the Trump administration sent states the names of hundreds of thousands of Medicaid enrollees with orders to determine whether they were ineligible based on immigration status. But seven months later, findings from five states shared with KFF Health News show that the reviews have uncovered little evidence of a widespread problem. Only U.S. citizens and some lawfully present immigrants are eligible for Medicaid, which covers health care costs for people with low incomes and disabilities, and the closely related Children’s…
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has concluded that an individual who is the sole owner and employee of a business is not required to provide his insurance carrier with notice of his work-related injury within 120 days to qualify for workers’ compensation benefits. The state’s high court found that in cases involving an injured person who is a sole proprietor— both the owner and the employee— the 120-day notice requirement applies to notifying the employer, not the insurer. The court reversed a Commonwealth Court opinion that favored Erie Insurance and remanded the injury claim against Erie back to the Workers’ Compensation…
European insurance watchdogs are taking a closer look at how the industry values its investments in private credit amid widespread concerns about the asset class. Authorities in France and Germany are among those to recently step up their scrutiny, according to people familiar with the matter. The watchdogs are looking at methods used as well as the data insurers rely on and how they challenge resulting calculations, said the people, who asked to remain anonymous discussing private information. A spokesperson for BaFin said the German watchdog is examining investment risk management and adherence to standards on prudence at insurers that…
Eli Lilly is expanding its commitment to artificial intelligence-driven drug development, signing a deal with Hong Kong-based Insilico to develop and commercialize experimental drugs in preclinical development.
Cars on the road today are 99% cleaner than they were in 1970. Air quality in the United States is much, much better as a result. In Los Angeles, where I live, lead levels in the air were 50 times higher in the 1970s than today, and the amount of lead in kids’ blood has plummeted. What made that drop possible is arguably the most important environmental technology ever invented: the catalytic converter. California has long had the authority under the federal Clean Air Act to set emissions standards for cars and trucks that are higher than the nation’s, and…
District of Columbia Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb announced that the District has won judgments in nine lawsuits that will cost 14 drivers from Maryland and Virginia a total of $531,192 in unpaid fines, penalties and fees for traffic citations. In addition, Schwalb said his office (OAG) has also filed five other lawsuits against out-of-state drivers who have amassed a combined total of 1,966 driving infractions on D.C. roads and who collectively owe the District nearly $625,194. OAG maintains that a few drivers owe D.C. more than $100,000 each. The judgments and lawsuits are authorized under the Strengthening Traffic Enforcement,…