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...of California, San Diego....
...That should have triggered the so-called excess policy provided by CNA, which also has a limit of $5mn, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers argued....
...Storms, floods and wildfires bring their own human and economic casualties....
...Small and mid-capitalisation stocks have predictably fared worse, casualties of consolidation among brokers and the rise of index funds....
...Letter in response to this editorial comment: How Israel should deal with its existential enemy / From Emeritus Professor Albion M Urdank, University of California, Los Angeles, US...
...Berkshire Energy’s PacifiCorp is facing, in the worst case, tens of billions of dollars in civil liability for the alleged role its equipment played in multiple wildfires that raged in California and Oregon...
...The US property and casualty insurance industry has suffered through a summer of devastating thunderstorms on the continent....
...In recent months, both State Farm and Allstate have announced plans to stop writing new policies in fire-prone California....
...The number of casualties caused by this incident is not yet known....
...civilian casualties....
...The purchase of PacWest by Banc of California is another piece of tidying up in the wake of banking turmoil. Thankfully, the all-share deal involved neither state intervention nor lopsided economics....
...“And of course climate change plays a role,” he added. “Of course fires are worse than they were — some of those terrible fires that have happened in California, that’s climate change.”...
...Michael Kofman, director of the Russia studies programme at CNA, a think-tank, who visited Bakhmut earlier this week, said the argument about Ukraine’s diminished counter-offensive capacity “may be overstated...
...Putin was likely warned and did nothing,” Michael Kofman, director of Russia studies at CNA, a US defence think-tank, wrote on Twitter....
...I rang him up in California and kicked off by asking what got Huggy and his co-author, Bob Sutton, interested in the idea of friction?...
...Allstate is just one of multiple insurers that have stopped offering new homeowners’ policies in California because of the risk, as local press has reported....
...At California State University Long Beach one student group advertised a “Protest for Palestine” with a poster featuring a paraglider of the sort that Hamas gunmen used to attack Israelis — a motif that...
...Victor Shih, an associate professor of Chinese political economy at the University of California San Diego, believes the appointment of cadres from China’s military-industrial complex to key leadership positions...
...Cheese, which filed for bankruptcy in June 2020, a casualty of the pandemic....
...As the go-to bank for California venture capitalists and start-ups, it was flooded with billions of deposits from young companies flush with investors’ cash....
...“That was the spark that all this needed, just adding fuel to a fire that was already there,” said Cecilia Farfán Méndez, head of research at the Center for US-Mexican studies at the University of California...
...TMG, once a crown jewel of the billionaire Barclay family, has since become a casualty of their financial misfortunes after being forced into receivership over £1bn of debts....
...The FTX collapse wiped out two of the bank’s top clients: about 10 per cent of Silvergate’s total assets belonged to FTX and its customers also included crypto lender BlockFi, a major casualty of the fallout...
...“Heading into 2023, Ukraine no longer has a manpower advantage and difficulties lie ahead,” says Michael Kofman, director in the Russian studies programme at CNA, a think-tank....
...Self-righteous democracies can suffer from what Stuart Russell, a computer science professor at University of California, Berkeley, calls the “sole ownership fallacy”....
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