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The trouble began for Ken and Judy Johnson – a pair of retirees from Austin, Texas – at a Fort Lauderdale arts festival. “There was a couple of people in there saying ‘come get your DNA tested,’” Judy recalled. The company, Genexe Health, billed itself as a genetic testing “one-stop shop.” With a quick cheek […]

Employers have welcomed telehealth benefits with open arms, but they’re having a hard time getting employees to share their enthusiasm. Almost 75% of major employers offered some type of telehealth benefit in 2018, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation Employee Health Benefit Survey, up from just 27% in 2015. That number doesn’t include medium- and small-sized […]

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will have no lack of material to choose from when he kicks off the central bank’s annual Jackson Hole symposium Friday with a speech on the challenges for monetary policy. A deglobalization shock touched off by Donald Trump’s trade policy; super low interest rates, including US$16.7 trillion in negative-yielding bonds; […]

The phone rings. “This call is to inform you that the IRS is filing a lawsuit against you. To get more information about this case file, please call immediately on our department number 1-800-555-5555. Thank you.” If you haven’t heard this exact call, dollars to donuts you’ve heard something like it. Whether it’s IRS fraud, […]

Small business cyber attacks are happening just as frequently as targeted attacks on big businesses, but the cost is much steeper. By: Jared Shelly | June 21, 2019 Topics: Business Interruption | Crisis Management | Critical Risks | Cyber | Cyber Risks | Risk Management We hear plenty about cyber attacks targeting big businesses. In 2019 alone, 540 million Facebook records were exposed; a Toyota data breach exposed the personal […]