(Re)insurers sue El Faro data provider for $49mn

Several Lloyd's and US (re)insurers have launched a $49mn
legal action against Norwegian weather data provider StormGeo
alleging defective read-outs from its system contributed to the
sinking of the El Faro in 2015, according to court documents.
Lawyers for the (re)insurance companies, which include QBE,
Great American and various Lloyd's carriers, argued that
StormGeo's Bon Voyage 7 (BVS 7) software provided
"outdated and erroneous" data on Hurricane Joaquin's
path, into which the ship sailed a