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he share of women on the boards of mid-sized and large public companies dipped below 30% in the first quarter, missing that threshold for the first time since 2024, and down from a peak of 30.4% a year ago. In all, women held 29.9% of board seats at Russell 3000 Index companies in the first three months of the year. During that period, womengained 138 seats and lost 83, for a net increase of 55 seats. But that was offset by a net gain of 186 board seats for men, according to a study scheduled to be released Tuesday by…

Lake Tahoe has long been a refuge for Silicon Valley’s tech elite, from Mark Zuckerberg to Larry Ellison. Now the artificial intelligence boom behind much of that wealth is straining the region’s power market, pushing up costs for residents in the lakeside towns below. Energy-hungry data centers across the border in Nevada are adding pressure to the market serving roughly 50,000 electricity customers on the California side of the lake. By the local utility’s own sample-bill calculation, the cost of keeping the lights on at home has surged about 77% since late 2022 — approaching twice the national residential average.…

A Georgia insurance agent whose license expired a year ago has been charged with diverting workers’ compensation premiums from businesses and providing falsified certificates of insurance. Lucy Margarita Suarez, 33, of Dalton, Georgia, was arrested in Miami and returned to Whitfield County, Georgia, news sites reported. Suarez, owner of EliteOne Solutions in Dalton, is charged with insurance fraud and forgery, the state Board of Workers’ Compensation told news outlets. The board’s investigation found that the alleged premium theft left clients without comp coverage. More victims and additional charges may be added as the investigation continues. Georgia’s license records show that…

On the last day to vote on bills, the New Hampshire House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at reducing liability insurance costs for care professionals. Senate Bill 614 establishes “multiple-caregiver self-insured risk coverage arrangements” for childcare, day care, foster care, and behavioral health services programs and providers. The bill would create a formal agreement between two or more of these providers, managed by the Department of Insurance, in which each business would pay into a fund that could be jointly used for self-insurance against liability risks, joint insurance purchases, legal fees, and more. The goal is to allow servicers…

Finland warned the public of drones possibly entering its airspace, for the first time near Helsinki, in the early hours of Friday. Flights were disrupted at the country’s biggest airport, Helsinki-Vantaa, and about 1.8 million residents of southern Finland were told to remain indoors after overnight Ukrainian strikes on Russia near Finland prompted concern that unmanned aircraft had strayed into the country. The emergency warning was issued at 3:49 a.m. local time and lifted about three hours later. Authorities have “no information or observations” indicating that drones actually entered Finnish territory, Kari Nisula, operations chief of the Finnish Defense Forces,…

NASHVILLE — The future of property-casualty insurance is here and it looks a lot like … a devoted personal assistant for the policyholder, one that moves at lightning speed and never complains or takes a day off. “You want your customer personalization to really come across as a concierge service,” said Russell Page, chief information officer for Hagerty, an insurer that specializes in coverage for classic cars and specialty vehicles. Page Page spoke this week at the Insurance Innovators USA annual conference in Nashville. He and others stressed that rapidly evolving technology, including artificial intelligence systems, while far from perfect,…

Stomach bugs on cruise ships recently hit a nearly two-decade high as more people than ever board the vessels, underscoring how easily viruses spread on contained voyages. While cruises are in a global spotlight after a rare hantavirus outbreak killed three people on an ocean liner since April, mild gastrointestinal illnesses are far more common on ships. They have risen for the last four years to the highest since 2007, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Vessel Sanitation Program. The data tracks ships with 13 or more passengers with foreign itineraries that dock at one…

This article is part of a sponsored series by Fulcrum. A day in the life of an account manager at Heffernan Insurance Brokers. Lauren Sebastiani remembers the rhythm of the old workflow clearly. Proposals went out to a vendor and came back in 24 hours. Policy checks shipped off and returned in two weeks, sometimes longer. Each deliverable came with a second round of work: reviewing, verifying, logging into Epic, updating fields by hand. “It was a very tedious thing before,” she says. Lauren is an account manager and team lead at Heffernan Insurance Brokers, where she has been in…

The suggestion comes after Iranian warnings that several important cables in the strait were a vulnerable point for economies in the Middle East. Iran’s comments expose an invisible foundation of the internet and globalisation itself: the web of more than 500 undersea cables that carries more than 95% of international data traffic. We may think the internet lives in a kind of virtual cloud. But its physical underpinnings are vulnerable – and that vulnerability is becoming a very real geopolitical concern. Gulfs, Straits and Cables Several of the world’s most critical submarine cable routes run through the Middle East. Narrow…

The city of Austin will pay $35 million to three men and the family of a fourth who were wrongly accused of the 1991 rape and murder of four teenage girls at a yogurt shop, a case that initially sent one of the men to death row and another to life in prison, under a tentative settlement reached Tuesday. Robert Springsteen, Michael Scott, Forrest Welborn and Maurice Pierce had all insisted they were innocent of one of the city’s most notorious crimes. They were finally declared innocent by a judge in February after investigators determined the crime was committed by…