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A first responder plans to take his case to the Florida Supreme Court after an appeals court found that his medical marijuana use was not cool under federal law and a collective bargaining agreement. “In the end, this appeal is not a referendum on medical marijuana, but rather a reminder that courts do not rule on intuition or based on popular sentiments, and they do not govern at all,” Florida’s 2nd District Court of Appeals wrote in its July 29 opinion. The appeals court said a Hillsborough Circuit Court judge had vastly overreached in 2024 by allowing Tampa-area firefighter and…

The US government’s top information security official warned that computer systems nationwide need to bolster their defenses to meet the growing threat of cyberattacks powered by artificial intelligence. During remarks Wednesday, Acting Federal Chief Information Security Officer Michael Duffy said that the government and private-sector organizations have historically been reactive when it comes to network security. That approach needs to change to stay ahead of the hacking risks in the AI era, he said. “We likely won’t have time to pick up the pieces with what we’re seeing in these AI capabilities,” Duffy said during a panel discussion at a…

Four months ago, the Netherlands approved Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system and has since then advocated for its adoption across the EU. But Dutch road regulator RDW won’t tell the public why it concluded the driver-assistance system is safe or how it evaluated the technology, which for years has faced regulatory investigations and lawsuits over FSD-involved crashes in the United States. Releasing such details would violate Tesla’s commercial secrets, the regulator told Reuters, echoing the automaker’s own demands on the regulator for confidentiality. Since late 2024, Tesla has pressed RDW to keep documentation about the FSD safety review secret, according…

The planet’s warming had a strong influence on destructive wildfires in Canada that have raged across Ontario and the Northwest Territories since late June, making the extreme fire weather that fueled them at least twice as likely, according to a report published Thursday by World Weather Attribution. With global temperatures roughly 1.4C above pre-industrial levels, Canada is experiencing a notable rise in extremely hot and dry weather — the ingredient required to turn minor ignitions into infernos. Researchers found that the severe conditions behind the recent blazes in Ontario are now twice as probable as they would be in a…

KLLM Transport Services LLC, a nationwide trucking company, and its subsidiary, KLLM Driving Academy, Inc., which operate driver training academies in Lancaster, Texas and Jackson, Mississippi, violated federal law by subjecting female student drivers to sex discrimination through several unlawful policies and practices, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit announced. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, KLLM subjected their female student drivers to overtly discriminatory training conditions because of sex since at least January 2021. This included adopting male trainers’ decisions to opt out of training female student drivers instead of providing separate single-sex sleeping quarters…

Two of central North Carolina’s oldest insurance agencies have agreed to merge, bringing more than 140 years of combined insurance experience to the table. Breeden Insurance Services, based in Lexington and Winston-Salem, and Citizens Insurance Group in Thomasville are now under the same aegis, although agency names have not changed. Breeden, founded in 1963, is led by President Mark Breeden. It is a third-generation, family-owned agency that offers personal and commercial coverage plans, according to local news reports. Citizens was started in 1938 and is headed by President Greg Prevo and Vice President Mitzi Watford. The combined agency group will…

The Minnesota Insurance Hall of Fame has announced the eight members selected for induction into its 2026 class. The honorees will be formally recognized during the annual Minnesota Insurance Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on October 22, 2026, at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. The annual induction ceremony brings together industry and community leaders from across the state to the St. Paul Campus for an evening of recognition, connection, and celebration of the individuals who have helped shape Minnesota’s insurance industry. The 2026 Minnesota Insurance Hall of Fame inductees are: John DeSanto, Former AIG Minneapolis Branch Manager…

A growing chorus of Texas lawmakers is calling on the state’s electric grid managers and utility regulators to halt an expansive and increasingly controversial project to build transmission lines that would cut through several thousand acres of private property to deliver electricity to oil companies in the West Texas oil fields. State Sen. Charles Schwertner, R-Georgetown, on Friday said that the Public Utility Commission of Texas should reject the applications to build the infrastructure. The Legislature would work on changing the application process — that they first created in 2023 — next year, when lawmakers meet for their 90th legislative…

HUB International, one of the largest U.S. insurance brokerages, has inked a deal to offer insurance products to credit union members in the Carolinas and Georgia. Spero Financial Federal Credit Union, based in South Carolina, has launched Spero Insurance Services, a licensed agency that has been built by HUB subsidiary VIU, the companies said in a news release this week. The move gives credit union members access to more than 40 insurance carriers. Spero was founded in 1935 and now includes more than 45,000 members. VIU by HUB, known as an “omnichannel brokerage” is headquartered in Chicago. Bryan Davis is…

Federated Mutual Insurance Company has acquired commercial trucking insurance provider High Definition Vehicle Insurance (HDVI). Based in Chicago, HDVI specializes in telematics-driven fleet insurance. The acquisition positions HDVI to accelerate its growth and innovative work within the commercial trucking insurance industry with greater financial strength and stability, the company said in a statement. HDVI will retain its own separate operations as a largely autonomous subsidiary company of Federated Insurance. Current HDVI employees will remain on staff, and the company will continue relationships with established agency partners. Topics Mergers & Acquisitions Illinois Was this article valuable? Yes No Here are more…