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Andrew Riexinger joined Alliant Insurance Services as vice president within its employee benefits group in New Jersey. He will work with employers throughout the Northeast, providing employee benefits brokerage and consulting services, including financial underwriting, claims analysis, plan design, and benefits strategy. He leads multidisciplinary client teams and guides employers through renewals and market evaluations while helping them understand emerging healthcare trends and their potential impact. Prior to joining Alliant, Riexinger was a principal with a global employee benefits consulting firm. Alliant is headquartered in Irvine, California. Topics Alliant Was this article valuable? Yes No Here are more articles you…

Alliant Insurance Services added Rebecca Ellis as assistant vice president within its employee benefits group in the Rocky Mountain region. Ellis will partner with employers throughout the Western region to develop strategic employee benefits and total rewards programs. Ellis’ background includes leadership experience overseeing total rewards strategy for a large integrated health system, giving her valuable insight into both the consulting and operational sides of benefits management. Prior to joining Alliant, Ellis was a vice president with a global insurance brokerage and consulting firm. Alliant is headquartered in Irvine, California. Topics Alliant Employee Benefits Was this article valuable? Yes No…

Fire and medical officials have issued warnings about a supplement offered to Western wildland firefighters who have been exposed to toxic chemicals while battling some of the country’s biggest blazes. The supplement glutathione, given through an IV or an inhaler-like machine called a nebulizer, has not been proven to be safe or effective and could expose firefighters to illness if there is contamination while it’s produced, experts say. At least two pharmacies recalled the supplement in August due to bacterial contamination found during testing at their labs, with one saying it had received reports of people suffering from fever, chills,…

A judge dismissed a suit by Elon Musk’s X Corp. that sought to block a New York law requiring social media companies to disclose how they deal with hate speech, extremism and disinformation, ruling that “the First Amendment poses no obstacle” to the law. X sued New York last year claiming provisions of New York’s “Stop Hiding Hate Act” violate state and federal free speech guarantees. X was seeking an order declaring the provisions void and blocking them from being enforced. US District Judge John Cronan dismissed the case on Wednesday. The judge said the law requires social media companies…

Artificial intelligence labs and cybersecurity firms are reconsidering the way they test advanced AI models after models from at least three firms jumped onto the open internet and breached real-world victims. Cybersecurity specialists are debating whether they should connect the virtual testing environments where they experiment with dangerous software, known as sandboxes, to the internet. That would mark a major shift, after technology firms for a generation have isolated their sandboxes in order to be sure that their software – whether it be malware samples or mobile apps – can’t cause collateral damage. The industry is aiming to figure out…

Things became all-too familiar for Kimya Williams after storms rumbled through Gary, Indiana, earlier this month leaving big chunks of the mostly-Black city in the dark for two weeks. The power outage reminded the 50-year-old of what she experienced in New Orleans in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina knocked out electricity to many. Williams’ home was one of more than 38,300 homes and businesses in Gary to lose power from the Aug. 11 storms. She initially tried to stick it out and stay put, but the darkness got the best of her and Williams’ left for Indianapolis to stay with her…

Social media giant Meta will pay over $1 billion to Texas and implement sweeping protections for children as part of a settlement with the state, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday. The settlement comes as Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, tentatively agreed to a $17 billion payout to resolve a separate lawsuit brought by 33 states, which Texas was not a part of. The historic settlement, the first of this scale from a social media company, will end the ongoing trial in that case. As part of Texas’ settlement, Meta will apply stricter age verification measures and institute…

The world’s top container shipper MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co. has suspended new bookings to and from Russia’s Novorossiysk port with immediate effect after one of its vessels was attacked by a drone. The decision follows a recent strike on the MSC ULSAN III while it was en route to Novorossiysk, MSC said in a notice to customers seen by Bloomberg News. The company didn’t say when the incident occurred. MSC said it’s closely monitoring the situation, and customers are being advised to contact its Russia agency for possible logistics alternatives for imports and exports until conditions allow the resumption of…

Iran’s military said it reached a revenue-sharing agreement with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz, as the two sides push for a wider deal on the management of the crucial waterway. “Agreements have been reached regarding each country’s share of the strait’s waters as well as Iran and Oman’s share of its revenues,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ spokesman Hossein Mohebbi said on Wednesday, according to the state-run Sepah News agency. “The US is obstructing this process, causing progress to be delayed,” he said, without elaborating. The comments by the IRGC go further than a joint statement issued by the…

A Hong Kong court declined to remove PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd. from a multibillion-dollar lawsuit brought by China Evergrande liquidators against the firm and its Hong Kong and mainland Chinese affiliates.Deputy High Court Judge Patrick Fung said the evidence PwC International submitted as part of its arguments to exit the case was “inadequate and unsatisfactory,” according to a judgment delivered on Wednesday.The ruling is significant because it means a global firm may not be able to distance itself from work done by its local affiliates in accounting fraud cases in Hong Kong. That could offer a playbook for other liquidators looking…