Swiss Re announced that it has submitted an application to Brazil’s Superintendence of Private Insurance (SUSEP) for a local reinsurance...
Yearly Archives: 2011
Slow-moving Typhoon Nanmadol remained dangerous Sunday despite weakening as it struck the tip of the mountainous northern Philippines, leaving at...
Hurricane Irene could cost U.S. state and local governments billions of dollars in damages, but funds from the federal government...

Hurricane Irene swept through Manhattan Sunday but reserved the worst of its fury for towns and suburbs up and down...
Investors objecting to Bank of America Corp.’s $8.5 billion settlement of claims over losses on mortgage-backed securities are seeking to...

U.S. Congress is tantalizingly close to passing patent reform that President Barack Obama has hailed as an economic booster, but...
The nation’s capital has prepared for emergencies with sleek communication systems, intelligence fusion centers and chemical detention centers at train...
The forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami aren’t getting a great deal of rest these days, as the...
Plaintiff lawyers claimed a victory on Friday when a U.S. federal judge overseeing hundreds of lawsuits against BP and others...
While people in New York and the rest of the U.S. East Coast on Friday were buying batteries and water...