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Video Game Effort Could Help Regulate Future Drone Traffic
May 20 2019 // By Lindsay Whitehurst Drones ferrying medical supplies, packages and even pizza could one day be crisscrossing the skies above U.S. cities, and a team at the University of Utah is working with regulators to keep that...
The Impact Of State-Level Legalization of Marijuana on the Insurance Industry
May 20 2019 // The changing legal status of marijuana in the U.S. is prompting insurers to begin offering coverages, despite having extremely limited loss data to inform them. While marijuana remains illegal at the federal level, action...
London Marine Insurers Expand Middle East Threat Zone After Saudi Ship Attacks
May 17 2019 // London’s marine insurance market has extended the list of waters deemed high risk to include Oman, the United Arab Emirates and the Gulf after ship attacks off Fujairah, officials said on Friday, in a move that could...
Insurer Says Iran’s Guards Likely Facilitated Saudi Tanker Attacks: Reuters
May 17 2019 // Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) are “highly likely” to have facilitated attacks last Sunday on four tankers including two Saudi ships off Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, according to a...
AXA XL Names Bertha to Lead U.S. East Region Multinational Casualty Group
May 17 2019 // AXA XL has promoted Marc Bertha as team lead for the U.S. Eastern Region Multinational Casualty group. Based in New York, Bertha will be leading the region’s underwriting team whose overall mission is to partner with...
Senators Urge Allies to Heed Trump’s Warning on China’s Huawei
May 17 2019 // U.S. senators warned allies that Chinese telecommunications companies such as Huawei Technologies Co. can’t meet security standards for advanced networks due in part to Chinese law that demands cooperation with...
Bayer’s Strategy on Roundup Litigation Rests on EPA Glyphosate Finding
May 17 2019 // Bayer AG plans to argue that a $2 billion jury award and thousands of U.S. lawsuits claiming its glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup causes cancer should be tossed because a U.S. regulatory agency said the herbicide is...
California’s New Climate and Sustainability Chief in Talks with Insurers
May 16 2019 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Michael Peterson has had about five months to come in and tackle what promises to be unique job. Peterson is California’s deputy commissioner for climate and sustainability. After...
Hartford to Close on $2.1 Billion Acquisition of Navigators on May 23
May 16 2019 // The Hartford said it has received all regulatory approvals needed to complete its acquisition of specialty insurer Navigators Group on May 23. “This acquisition is a significant milestone for our company and...
Commercial Insurance Prices Were Up 3% Globally, 1.1% in U.S. in Q1: Marsh
May 16 2019 // Average global commercial insurance prices increased 3% in the first quarter of2019, according to broker Marsh. This represents the sixth consecutive quarter of average commercial insurance pricing increases, Marsh said in...
U.S. Blacklisting of China’s Huawei to Disrupt Global Technology Supply Chain
May 16 2019 // The latest U.S. broadside against Huawei that puts the Chinese firm on an exports blacklist threatens to rattle the global tech supply chain, linked closely to the $105 billion business of the world’s top supplier of...
U.S. Delays Review of Spectrum for Vehicles to Communicate
May 16 2019 // Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on Wednesday delayed plans to begin in June a comprehensive review of a valuable band of spectrum reserved for vehicles to communicate with one another. Pai on Tuesday...
Oil, Gas Shippers Brace for Rise in Insurance Premiums After Saudi Ship Attacks
May 16 2019 // Asian shippers and refiners have put ships heading to the Middle East on alert and are expecting a possible rise in marine insurance premiums after recent attacks on Saudi oil tankers and pipeline facilities, industry...
Insurers Face Higher Claims from Severe Convective Storms in Germany
May 16 2019 // Swimmers at the Lusshardtsee lake about 60 miles south of Frankfurt in Germany thought they’d found respite from the blazing sun one Sunday afternoon last summer. Unknown to them, however, sweltering ground...
Gymnasts to Texas Lawmakers: Allow Sex Abuse Victims to Sue Institutions
May 16 2019 // Former U.S. national team gymnasts backing a Texas bill that would allow victims of sexual abuse more time to sue in civil court on Monday urged the state’s lawmakers to restore a key provision allowing those...
Midwest Farmers Feel Pain of Trade War with China
May 15 2019 // China’s announcement of higher tariffs on $60 billion of American exports — retaliation for President Donald Trump’s latest penalties on Chinese goods — hit particularly hard in the farm belt. China’s...
Trump Readies Security Order Limiting Huawei, Other Foreign Telecoms
May 15 2019 // President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order this week barring U.S. companies from using telecommunications equipment made by firms posing a national security risk, paving the way for a ban on doing...
$2 Billion Verdict Far From End of Roundup Litigation Challenges for Bayer
May 15 2019 // Bayer shares continued to fall on Tuesday after a California jury on Monday awarded more than $2 billion in damages to a couple who alleged that the company’s glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup caused their...
U.S. to Consider Opening Unused Spectrum Band for ‘Talking’ Vehicles
May 15 2019 // The U.S. Federal Communications Commission plans to vote in June on launching a new review of a key spectrum band reserved for automakers that could boost Wi-Fi use, a person briefed on the matter said on Tuesday. In 1999,...
BPL Global Adds Marsh’s DeCarlo to Grow Credit, Political Risk Business in U.S.
May 15 2019 // Credit and political risk insurance brokerage specialist BPL Global has appointed Donnie DiCarlo as executive vice president. He will be based in New York and is charged with expanding BPL’s client base in the U.S....
