New York Judge to Rule If WTC Developer Can Seek Damages From Airlines July 16, 2013 A federal judge is days away from deciding if New York developer Larry Silverstein can recover as much as $3.5...
Allstate Says Book Value to Rise on Cut in Employees’ Retirement Benefits July 16, 2013 By Noah Buhayar Allstate Corp., the largest publicly traded U.S. home and auto insurer, said it’s cutting some retirement benefits for employees in...
North Carolina Blue Cross Defends Data Sharing July 16, 2013 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina shares private information of hundreds of thousands of its clients to an...
Report Looks at Mississippi Meat Plants’ Food Safety July 16, 2013 More than two dozen Mississippi slaughterhouses and poultry meat processing plants have violated sanitation or food safety guidelines over the...
How Casualty Actuaries Help Insurers Manage Nanotech, Other Emerging Risks July 16, 2013 Casualty actuaries can help insurers meet the demand for new products by identifying, analyzing and pricing new risks, according to...
W.R. Berkley Appoints Levine VP, Chief Marketing Officer July 16, 2013 W. R. Berkley Corp. has appointed Jonathan M. Levine to the office of vice president and chief marketing officer. Levine...
BP Gulf Oil Victims Challenge Economic Damages Claim Settlements July 16, 2013 By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Margaret Cronin Fisk BP Plc’s $8.2 billion settlement of most private economic-damage claims from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is unfair...
Obama Administration Under Fire for Delay on Chemical Plant Safety July 16, 2013 By Mark Drajem The Obama administration’s lack of action to impose recommended changes to make refineries, chemical factories and sugar plants safer is...
Ratings Roundup: Al Fajer, Tunis Re, Eastern Re July 16, 2013 A.M. Best Europe – Rating Services Limited has revised the outlook to stable from negative and affirmed the financial strength...
Report Says Seas May Rise over 7+ feet Per Degree Celsius of Global Warming July 16, 2013 By Erik Kirschbaum Sea levels could rise by 2.3 meters [app. 7.66 feet] for each degree Celsius [1.8°F] that global temperatures increase and...