A lawsuit against General Motors Co. filed this week in San Francisco seeking class action status includes plaintiffs who own...
Yearly Archives: 2014
The U.S. office responsible for monitoring safety defects in cars has had its budget stagnate and its staff cut by...

Charleston’s storied historic district of about 4,800 structures lies on a peninsula almost entirely in a flood plain. And there’s...

There’s no easy fix for the National Flood Insurance Program, now drowning in a $24 billion sea of red ink....
Cash-only medical clinics are allowed to skirt the licensing and regulation most other clinics are subject to, a loophole that...

A divided U.S. Supreme Court debated whether companies can assert the same religious rights as individuals, hearing arguments in an...
Swiss Re’s latest sigma report highlights the 308 disaster events in 2013, of which 150 were natural catastrophes and 158...
PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization providing industry-wide catastrophe insurance data, announced that its initial loss estimate for Windstorm Tini, also...

Lloyd’s announced a profit of £3.2 billion [$5.2894 billion] for 2013, compared to a profit of £2.8 billion [$4.628 billion]...
Malaysian Airlines and Boeing Co are facing a potential lawsuit over the Beijing-bound flight that disappeared more than two weeks...