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        "title": "Wave of new tech firms targeting farms as weather wars mount",
        "byline": "Lydia Mulvany and Brian K. Sullivan",
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        "summary": "Farmers are seeing more intensely erratic weather than they ever have.",
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        "title": "Ex-VW CEO Winterkorn charged in Germany over diesel rigging",
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        "summary": "Winterkorn was accused alongside 4 other managers of equipping vehicles sold to customers with a so-called defeat device.",
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        "title": "Yahoo data breach settlement reaches $117.5M",
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        "title": "The principles of cyber risk management: What does good security look like?",
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        "summary": "Concern has shifted from dealing with data being stolen and sold to handling serious ransomware and destructive attacks.",
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        "title": "Asking for referrals doesn't work. This does.",
        "byline": "Lloyd Lofton",
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        "prettyDate": "April 12, 2019",
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        "summary": "Here's the author's strategy for helping clients think of people who might need an insurance agent or other professional.",
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        "prettyDate": "April 12, 2019",
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        "summary": "There were 151 announced insurance agency mergers and acquisitions during Q1 of 2019, according to OPTIS Partners.",
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        "title": "Wildfire took your home? Don't count on insurance",
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        "prettyDate": "April 11, 2019",
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        "title": "When insurance clients think you only call when selling something",
        "byline": "Bryce Sanders",
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        "summary": "Many prospects are skeptical. Here are ideas about how to handle that.",
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        "title": "AES solar farms now have insurance to hedge against cloudy days",
        "byline": "Brian Eckhouse",
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        "prettyDate": "April 10, 2019",
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        "summary": "The insurance, called a solar-revenue put and backed by Swiss Re, guarantees minimum revenue.",
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        "title": "Boeing's crashes seen exposing peril for automated-car oversight",
        "byline": "Ryan Beene",
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        "prettyDate": "April 10, 2019",
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        "summary": "Investigators suspect a new automated system on Boeing's jet that pushes the nose down played a role in 737 Max crashes.",
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