Our NYC office has been open on a scaled-down basis from the very beginning back in March. We brought everyone back on a hybrid-rotation since August 1st. I’m happy to say that it has worked out extremely well for everyone.

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Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. has agreed to buy U.S. high net worth insurer Privilege Underwriters Inc. and its specialty insurance subsidiaries, known as Pure Group, for $3.1 billion (approximately JPY 325.5B).

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According to the NHTSA, “even the safest drivers can benefit from today’s driver assistance technologies.” Here are some tech-driven features consumers can look for as they shop for a new vehicle:

• Rear automatic braking applies a vehicle’s brakes to prevent a rear collision when backing up. (Shutterstock)
• Backup cameras provide drivers with a clear view directly behind their vehicle. (Bloomberg)
• Rear cross traffic alerts warn drivers of a potential rear collision that may be outside the view of their backup camera. Here, Hong Bae, director of advanced drive assistance systems (ADAS) and self-driving at Faraday Future, speaks during the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). (Bloomberg)
• Traffic jam assist automatically accelerates and brakes a vehicle along with the flow of traffic, and keeps the vehicle between lane markings — even on curves. (Shutterstock)
• Highway pilot maintains a vehicle’s lane position and a determined following distance from the vehicle in front by automatically accelerating and braking as needed.

The Mogil Organization is pleased to announce that J. Zamzok & Associates Inc. have moved into our office at 116 East 27^th Street  9^th Floor  New York, N.Y. 10016.  As of April 1, 2019 they will be affiliated with The Mogil Organization LLC.  … read more > “Special Announcement!!”

In Atlanta, where traffic for the Super Bowl is expected to begin on Tuesday, Delta Air Lines said it had proactively canceled “approximately 170 mainline and Delta Connection flights” because of snow and icy conditions.… read more > “Over 1,500 flights cancelled as weather wreaks havoc on US’s airports”

Winter weather advisory this afternoon and evening. Roads turning slick, especially west of town.… read more > “Burst of snow moving through Washington region.”

A newly discovered privacy bug in Apple’s FaceTime software allows users to hear and see the person they are calling, without the recipient even picking up. Here is how to turn off FaceTime.… read more > “How to turn off FaceTime and avoid Apple’s eavesdropping bug”

The airline industry is facing a level of risk “we cannot even calculate” because of the partial government shutdown, unions representing air traffic controllers, flight attendants and pilots said in a statement Wednesday.… read more > “Air travelers at risk because of government shutdown”

Camp Lejeune

The secretary of the Navy is denying all remaining civil claims by individuals who were exposed to contaminated drinking water at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. This will leave an estimated 4,500 plaintiffs with claims surpassing $63 billion in damages, with no cash payouts. … read more > “Navy to deny all civil claims related to Camp Lejeune water contamination”

First it started in December when China had detained two Canadians after the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei and daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei. Now China has given the death sentence to Canadian man on Monday, December 14th 2019. China states the arrests and the death sentence have nothing to do with each other but others think different.

Read More Here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/01/16/how-china-is-using-death-sentence-manipulate-canada/?utm_term=.a556c42e4e9e… read more > “How China is using a death sentence to manipulate Canada”

Per William Booth And Karla Adam “Prime Minister Theresa May survived a no-confidence motion in the House of Commons on Wednesday evening, in a close party-line vote of 325 to 302, a day after the humiliating defeat of her Brexit plan imperiled both her leadership and Britain’s departure from the European Union.”

Read More Here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/theresa-may-expected-to-survive-confidence-vote-even-after-brexit-failure/2019/01/16/80863074-1914-11e9-b8e6-567190c2fd08_story.html?utm_term=.ac07f7f40f84… read more > “Theresa May Survives Confidence Vote, even after Brexit failure”