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Business Wire
11-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
AM Best to Participate at IASA Metro NY/NJ Chapter's 2025 Education Session
OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AM Best will participate at the IASA Metro NY/NJ Chapter's 23rd annual Education Session and Golf Outing with an overview of the U.S. property/casualty (P/C) industry, along with leading issues impacting the industry. The event will take place June 25, 2025, in Kenilworth, NJ. AM Best Associate Director Anthony Molinaro will lead a session, titled, 'Rating Agency Perspectives - An Update from AM Best,' during which he will discuss the P/C industry's results in 2024, along with projected 2025 results and outlooks on specific lines of P/C business. The presentation is scheduled for 9:10 a.m. (EDT). Molinaro has been with AM Best since 2019 and is responsible for rating a diverse portfolio of P/C companies throughout North America. The IASA is a non-profit, education association that seeks to create and provide valuable and up-to-date information on issues facing the insurance industry. AM Best is an eagle sponsor of the event, which will be held at the Galloping Hills Golf Course and seeks to provide attendees with up-to-date information on issues facing the insurance industry. For more information, please visit the event's website. AM Best is a global credit rating agency, news publisher and data analytics provider specializing in the insurance industry. Headquartered in the United States, the company does business in over 100 countries with regional offices in London, Amsterdam, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Mexico City. For more information, visit
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
AM Best to Participate at IASA Metro NY/NJ Chapter's 2025 Education Session
OLDWICK, N.J., June 11, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AM Best will participate at the IASA Metro NY/NJ Chapter's 23rd annual Education Session and Golf Outing with an overview of the U.S. property/casualty (P/C) industry, along with leading issues impacting the industry. The event will take place June 25, 2025, in Kenilworth, NJ. AM Best Associate Director Anthony Molinaro will lead a session, titled, "Rating Agency Perspectives - An Update from AM Best," during which he will discuss the P/C industry's results in 2024, along with projected 2025 results and outlooks on specific lines of P/C business. The presentation is scheduled for 9:10 a.m. (EDT). Molinaro has been with AM Best since 2019 and is responsible for rating a diverse portfolio of P/C companies throughout North America. The IASA is a non-profit, education association that seeks to create and provide valuable and up-to-date information on issues facing the insurance industry. AM Best is an eagle sponsor of the event, which will be held at the Galloping Hills Golf Course and seeks to provide attendees with up-to-date information on issues facing the insurance industry. For more information, please visit the event's website. AM Best is a global credit rating agency, news publisher and data analytics provider specializing in the insurance industry. Headquartered in the United States, the company does business in over 100 countries with regional offices in London, Amsterdam, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore and Mexico City. For more information, visit Copyright © 2025 by A.M. Best Company, Inc. and/or its affiliates. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. View source version on Contacts Christopher Sharkey Associate Director, Public Relations +1 908 439 2200, ext. 5159 Al Slavin Senior Public Relations Specialist +1 908 439 2200, ext. 5098 Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
27-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Molinaro on Capitol Hill for FTA nomination hearing
(WIVT/WBGH) – Josh Riley's predecessor was back on Capitol Hill today for a nomination hearing to be the head of the Federal Transit Administration. Republican Marc Molinaro is President Trump's pick to lead the agency that oversees regulations on public transportation, including buses, subways and ferries. Molinaro discussed his previous efforts at all levels of government to support transportation issues. He was accompanied to the hearing by the head of the Transportation Workers Union which has endorsed him. Molinaro says transit systems must embrace technology and modernize systems. 'To fully realize this vision, we must drive innovation, streamline permitting, boost performance and fully harness technology to transform how we plan, build and operate transit. A modern, safe, reliable and accessible transit system in urban centers and rural communities underground, over roads and across waterways will advance America and Americans,' said Molinaro. Molinaro, who has been a longtime advocate for disability rights, says he will also work to make public transit more accessible. No word on when he will be confirmed by the full Senate. If confirmed, he plans to continue living in Upstate New York and will commute to DC. Molinaro on Capitol Hill for FTA nomination hearing ICE detainees housed at Broome County Jail Mayor Kraham vetoes Good Cause Eviction law BU art exhibit celebrates Women's History Month BOCES holds annual Job Readiness Fair Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
26-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Molinaro heading to Washinton for FTA hearing
(WIVT/WBGH) – Former Congressman Marc Molinaro goes before his former colleagues on Wednesday for a hearing about his nomination to head the Federal Transit Administration. The Republican is scheduled for a hearing Wednesday in Washington DC. His aide released to the media a list of 14 endorsement letters from politicians and organizations. That includes a letter from Democratic Broome County Executive Jason Garnar who called Molinaro a tireless advocate for the Southern Tier who is willing to work across the aisle. Tom Harding: Distinguished Citizen of the Year Woman suing Riverside Towers over emotional support dog Molinaro heading to Washinton for FTA hearing Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls at Rotary Ti-Ahwaga Community Players presenting 'Gypsy' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
New York Times
10-03-2025
- Science
- New York Times
Think You Understand Your Dog? Think Again.
Dogs can't talk, but their body language speaks volumes. Many dogs will bow when they want to play, for instance, or lick their lips and avert their gaze when nervous or afraid. But people aren't always good at interpreting such cues — or even noticing them, a new study suggests. In the study, the researchers presented people with videos of a dog reacting to positive and negative stimuli, including a leash, a treat, a vacuum cleaner and a scolding. When asked to assess the dog's emotions, viewers seemed to pay more attention to the situational cues than the dog's actual behavior, even when the videos had been edited to be deliberately misleading. (In one video, for instance, a dog that appeared to be reacting to the sight of his leash had actually been shown a vacuum cleaner by his owner.) 'When it comes to just perceiving dog emotions, we think we know what's happening, but we're actually subconsciously relying on a lot of other factors,' said Holly Molinaro, who is a doctoral student at Arizona State University and the first author of the new paper, which was published on Monday in the journal Anthrozoös. That bias could mislead owners about their dogs' well-being, Ms. Molinaro said. People who want to be attentive to their dog's experiences and emotions need to 'take a second or two to actually focus on the dog rather than everything else that's going on,' she said. The idea for the study was born in 2021, when Ms. Molinaro was just beginning her doctoral work in canine emotions but the Covid-19 pandemic had sharply limited her ability to do in-person research. She was inspired by studies that explore how context clues affect people's perceptions of others' emotions. She was also inspired by a distinctly pandemic-era technology: Zoom. The video conferencing software has a feature that blurs out workers' backgrounds. Ms Molinaro and her adviser, Clive Wynne — a canine-behavior expert at Arizona State — began to wonder if they could do something similar, creating videos that allowed people to see a dog's behavior without seeing what was unfolding around it. And so, while visiting her parents in Connecticut, Ms. Molinaro began recording videos of her family dog, Oliver, a 14-year-old pointer-beagle mix, interacting with her father. In some of the videos, Ms. Molinaro's father did things that Oliver was likely to respond to positively, such as show him his leash or a toy. In others, he did things that were likely to elicit more negative reactions, such as gently scold Oliver or present him with Ms. Molinaro's cat, Saffron. ('He was not a fan,' she said.) Then, after a crash course in video editing, Ms. Molinaro made versions of each video that removed all of the situational context, leaving footage of Oliver, alone, on a black background. The researchers asked hundreds of undergraduates to watch both sets of videos and assess Oliver's emotional state in each clip. When the subjects evaluated the original videos, they rated Oliver's emotions as more positive in the positive scenarios than in the negative ones. But when the context was removed, they rated Oliver's emotions as equally positive in both types of situations. Then, the scientists took things a step further by splicing together footage from different situations — showing, for instance, Ms. Molinaro's father presenting a vacuum alongside footage of Oliver's response to seeing his leash. Viewers seemed to be swayed more by the context than by Oliver's behavior. When Ms. Molinaro's father was depicted doing something positive, subjects judged Oliver's emotions to be positive, even if he had been filmed reacting to something negative. 'There's no evidence at all that people actually see the dog,' Dr. Wynne said. 'They seem to have a sort of a big blind spot around the dog himself.' The study has limitations, including that it was based on the behavior of just a single dog. People might also perform better when asked to evaluate the emotions of their own dogs, Dr. Wynne said, and probably would have noticed signs of intense terror or trauma. (The scientists did not subject Oliver to any extremely negative experiences.) Still, he hoped that the study would be a wake-up call for pet owners. 'I'm taking it to heart in my own life,' said Dr. Wynne, who recently adopted a retired racing greyhound. 'I'm making it a project to learn how she expresses herself,' he added. 'Because if I know what makes her happy and unhappy, well, then I can guide her life toward greater happiness.' Sadly, Oliver did not live long enough to see the study published. 'But it's sweet that he's memorialized in this research,' Ms. Molinaro said.
