June 19, 2019
Lloyd’s of London Ltd. is meeting with major U.S. insurers about driving more business through its global insurance market, Chief Executive Officer John Neal said on Wednesday. The 330-year-old insurance market, which launched its most recent modernization effort in May, …
June 19, 2019
Aspen Insurance, the insurance segment of Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd., announced the launch of its cyber risk management platform, SSIMPLE, which was developed to assist clients in the prevention and detection of, and response to, privacy and network security incidents. …
June 19, 2019
The nation’s largest insurer has stepped up its investment in telematics, announcing this week an upgrade to its usage-based insurance program that allows policyholders to check on their driving habits trip-by-trip instead of waiting for a periodic score card. State …
June 19, 2019
Tougher standards for school bus drivers and a fire suppression system could have prevented the deaths in a 2017 school bus fire in western Iowa, federal safety investigators say. National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said the Riverside Community …
June 19, 2019
Investigators will consider storm-related flooding to help determine what caused an April 24 freight train derailment in North Texas that sent 25 tanker cars off the tracks. The National Transportation Safety Board on Monday issued a preliminary report on the …
June 19, 2019
A Utah couple and five of their nine children are recovering from injuries after the balcony on their home collapsed. Spring City police say the accident occurred about 9:30 p.m. Sunday. The Salt Lake Tribune reports Adam Burningham, his wife …
June 19, 2019
Nevada’s attorney general expanded the state’s lawsuit against the maker of the opioid OxyContin this week to include the company’s former president, his family, other drugmakers, distributors and drugstores, including Walgreens, CVS and Walmart. The lawsuit naming more than 40 …
June 19, 2019
The San Francisco Bay Area warehouse where a fire killed 36 people more than two years ago was an artist enclave where nobody was fully in charge, one of two men blamed for the fire testified this week. Max Harris …
June 19, 2019
The big day is coming! I suspect by now, you’ve heard a great deal about the implementation of provisions of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012, requiring regulated institutions to accept certain private flood insurance policies in addition …
June 19, 2019
PG&E Corp. will pay $1 billion as part of its bankruptcy reorganization to more than a dozen local governments in California struck by wildfires in recent years, the company and lawyers for the governments said on Tuesday. Payments to the …