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Most Popular Insurance Journal International Stories of 2014
Dec 31 2014 // Listed below are 10 of the most popular articles that appeared in the international section on Insurance Journal in 2014 in no particular order: Somali Pirates Driven Off in First Attack of 2014 – After this first...
Update: Debris From AirAsia Plane Found in Ocean; First Bodies Retrieved
Dec 30 2014 // Indonesian search crews recovered debris and bodies floating in the sea from the AirAsia Bhd. airliner that went missing three days ago with 162 people on board, as investigators seek to determine what brought down the...
TransAsia Pilots Couldn’t Find Runway Before Fatal Crash: Accident Report
Dec 29 2014 // Pilots of a fatal July 23 TransAsia Airways Corp. flight couldn’t find the runway seconds before their aircraft crashed on Taiwan’s outlying Penghu islands, killing 48 people, according to a recently released...
After 4 Air Crashes, 2014 Is One of Worst Years for Asian Aviation Industry
Dec 29 2014 // Four airline incidents in which more than 600 people died made 2014 one of the worst years for Asian aviation even before the disappearance of AirAsia Bhd. QZ8501. The unresolved disappearance of Malaysian Airline System...
Search Widens for AirAsia Plane, No Emergency Signal Detected
Dec 29 2014 // Planes and ships from four nations scoured the Java Sea for an AirAsia Bhd. passenger jet that vanished off the coast of Borneo more than a day ago with 162 people on board, as Indonesian investigators said the jet had...
Allianz Lead Reinsurer for Missing AirAsia Plane; JLT Broker
Dec 29 2014 // German insurer Allianz said on Monday it was the lead re-insurer to the AirAsia jet missing off the Indonesian coast with 162 people on board, making it the third major airline accident it has been involved in this...
Iowa DPS Report: Wait On Drone Regulation
Dec 24 2014 // Iowa should take a wait-and-see approach to regulating unmanned aerial vehicles because of their huge potential for positive uses in business and government, the Iowa Department of Public Safety advises in a new...
Prison Sites at Salt Lake City Could Get Hit By Tsunami
Dec 23 2014 // The ground shakes violently and then a wall of salty, brine-shrimp-laden water crashes into the Utah State Prison. The cells of the state’s most dangerous inmates start to flood. Panicked Corrections officers must...
Drone Risks Require More Safety Regulation, IATA Chief Says
Dec 15 2014 // The surging popularity of inexpensive radio-controlled airplanes and helicopters raises risks that require a firm response from regulators to ensure safety, the head of a leading commercial aviation trade group told...
Erie Insurance Seeks Approval for Drone Use
Dec 15 2014 // Erie Insurance Group recently filed a petition with the U.S. Department of Transportation seeking permission for commercial operations of small unmanned drone aircraft. Erie Insurance joins a growing number of insurers...
Supreme Court Turns Down Sept. 11 Environmental Appeal
Dec 15 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 1 declined to revive a New York real estate developer’s lawsuit against the leaseholder of the destroyed World Trade Center and two airlines seeking environmental cleanup costs related...
Delay in Drone Rules Jeopardizes Research, Competitiveness, Congress Told
Dec 12 2014 // Commercial drone flights are taking off in other countries while the U.S. lags behind in developing safety regulations that would permit unmanned aircraft operations by a wide array of industries, witnesses told a House...
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Search Area Spreads on Analysis of Final Nosedive
Dec 12 2014 // Investigators seeking the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean are widening their search area to cover the chance the aircraft fell from the sky at a shallower angle than...
Cyber Attacks, Drones Pose Threat to Plane Safety: Allianz
Dec 9 2014 // Cyber attacks and commercial drones pose a growing risk of commercial airplane crashes, a major insurer said, running counter to a long-term decline in fatal accidents and insurance premiums. Technical advances in aircraft...
Uber Pays Fine Imposed on South Carolina Driver
Dec 8 2014 // Editor’s Note: This is a corrected version of this story. In a story Dec. 6 about a driver for the Internet ride-sharing company Uber being fined, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the driver had been...
Erie Insurance Seeks Approval for Drone Use
Dec 3 2014 // Erie Insurance Group recently filed a petition with the U.S. Department of Transportation seeking permission for commercial operations of small unmanned drone aircraft. The Erie, Pennsylvania-based insurer said in its Nov....
NSM Insurance in Texas Names Mattiello Director of Specialty Aviation
Dec 3 2014 // NSM Insurance Group has named Larry Mattiello director of specialty aviation underwriters. Mattiello began his aviation insurance career 35 years ago and has experience in general aviation insurance, safety and risk...
Iran Hackers Targeted Airlines, Energy Firms Across Globe: Cylance Report
Dec 3 2014 // Iranian hackers have infiltrated some of the world’s top energy, transport and infrastructure companies over the past two years in a campaign that could allow them to eventually cause physical damage, according to...
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Sept. 11 Environmental Appeal
Dec 2 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to revive a New York real estate developer’s lawsuit against the leaseholder of the destroyed World Trade Center and two airlines seeking environmental cleanup costs related...
Fasten Your Seatbelts, Flying Cars Could Take-Off Within 3 Years
Nov 24 2014 // The first time Carl Dietrich brought his flying-car concept to the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual AirVenture gathering in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, he had only a video to show the aviation geeks who wandered by...
