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U.S. Safety Chief Contradicts Tesla Safety Claims on Autopilot
May 3 2018 // A U.S. traffic safety regulator on Wednesday contradicted Tesla Inc.’s claim that the agency had found that its Autopilot technology significantly reduced crashes, saying that regulators “did not assess”...
Facebook Loses Bid to Delay EU Data Privacy Suit
May 2 2018 // Ireland’s High Court has refused a request by Facebook to delay referral to Europe’s top court of a landmark privacy case that could strike down legal instruments used by U.S. tech companies to transfer EU...
Amazon, Lowe’s, Tesla Make ‘Dirty Dozen’ Unsafe Workplace List
May 2 2018 // Amazon, Lowe’s and Tesla are among the firms on a list of employers with unsafe workplaces published by a federation of labor, health and safety groups. The National Council for Occupational Safety and Health...
Octo Telematics Says It’s Freed from U.S. Sanctions After Execs Buy Russian Shares
May 2 2018 // Italy’s Octo Telematics, a global provider of telematics for the auto insurance industry, confirmed the completion of the purchase of 20 percent of the company’s shares by its Chairman Sir John Peace and Chief...
U.S. Transportation Agency Sets Process for Approval of Drone Taxis
May 1 2018 // On-demand robotic flying taxis and drone deliveries are years away from reality, but the U.S. Department of Transportation has removed at least one barrier to their operation. Responding to work by companies including...
Supreme Court to Consider Google Privacy Payments to Third Parties
May 1 2018 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an internet privacy case involving Google that could put the brakes on an increasingly common form of settlement in class action suits that funnels money to unrelated third...
Facebook Wants to Block Top EU Court from Getting Key Privacy Case
May 1 2018 // Facebook bid on Monday to block referral of a landmark privacy case to Europe’s top court by requesting a last-ditch appeal, seeking to avoid a potential ban on the legal instrument it uses to transfer users’...
Texas Crash Spurs Approval of Balloon Pilot Medical Exams in U.S. House
Apr 30 2018 // The U.S. House has approved a measure requiring medical checks for commercial hot air balloon pilots in an effort to avoid a re-occurrence of a 2016 crash that killed 16 people in Texas. The House voted Friday on a...
Beazley’s Digital Weather Policy: Plain English and Personalized
Apr 30 2018 // Specialist insurer Beazley has launched a digital insurance policy in the U.S. that can be customized and describes in plain English precisely what coverage the customer has bought. Beazley Weather Guard protects U.S....
Dutch Terror Victims Seek Damages from Qatar
Apr 30 2018 // A prominent human rights lawyer demanded last week that Qatar compensate Dutch-based victims of an al-Qaida-linked Syrian extremist group, saying the Al Nusra group was financed by Qatar-based funding networks. In a letter...
Passenger Sues Southwest Airlines, Engine Manufacturers Over Fatal Explosion
Apr 30 2018 // A lawsuit against Southwest Airlines Co. has been filed by a passenger who was flying on last week’s flight 1380, in which an engine exploded and one person was killed. The lawsuit claims that since the accident, the...
Lloyd’s Sees Insurance Helping Burgeoning Sharing Economy Grow
Apr 30 2018 // A new report commissioned by Lloyd’s of London finds a role for insurance in helping the sharing economy grow by clearly defining the risks in the peer-to-peer world. However, differing views on who should take on...
Retired Engineer Questions Plans to Relieve Houston-Area Bayou Flooding
Apr 27 2018 // Hurricane Harvey’s epic rain in August 2017 convinced many residents and elected officials in Southeast Texas that the drastic flooding required drastic drainage solutions. The Galveston County Daily News reports one...
3 States Ask Court to Revisit Decision Against Fiduciary Rule for Advisors
Apr 27 2018 // Attorneys general from California, Oregon and New York on Thursday filed a motion to intervene in a case between the securities industry and the U.S. Department of Labor, petitioning the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of...
Swiss Re to Create Standalone E&S Unit for U.S.
Apr 27 2018 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has announced the creation of a standalone excess and surplus (E&S) business unit in North America. This unit will include Swiss Re’s traditional E&S property and E&S casualty...
AXA Prices IPO of U.S. Division to Help with XL Takeover
Apr 26 2018 // French insurer AXA on Thursday priced the forthcoming initial public offering (IPO) of its U.S. division at $24-27 per share, in a deal that could value the part of the business being listed on the market at $3.5...
U.S. Insurers Not Doing Enough on Sustainability, New Report Shows
Apr 26 2018 // A new report from a sustainability advocate gives two green thumbs down to the U.S. insurance industry for its inability to grow its efforts, or its interest, in dealing with climate change compared with other sectors. The...
Massachusetts Holds 7th Annual National Cyber Crime Conference
Apr 26 2018 // More than 700 law enforcement officers, prosecutors and investigators from across the U.S. and Canada recently attended the seventh annual National Cyber Crime Conference hosted by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura...
Merck Loses Bid to Collect Patent Infringement Damages from Gilead
Apr 26 2018 // A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday affirmed a ruling that pharmaceutical company Merck & Co. dishonestly obtained patent rights and was not entitled to collect a $200 million infringement verdict it won against rival...
Southwest Has Paid Millions in Safety Violation Fines, Faced Union Safety Complaints
Apr 25 2018 // Southwest Airlines runs its planes hard. Planes flying for Dallas-based Southwest make many short hops and more trips per day than other U.S. airliners, which add to wear and tear on airplane parts, including the...
