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U.S. Issues New Safety Rules for Underground Gas Storage Facilities
Dec 15 2016 // The U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued an interim final rule (IFR) revising pipeline safety regulations to address safety issues related to underground natural gas storage...
G20 Task Force to Ask Firms to Disclose How They Manage Climate Risks
Dec 14 2016 // A global task force set up to try to prevent market shocks from the warming of the planet will ask companies to disclose how they manage risks to their business from climate change and greenhouse gas emission...
Caribbean Cat Facility, CCRIF, Pays Nicaragua $1.1M for Hurricane Otto
Dec 14 2016 // CCRIF SPC (formerly the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility) made a payout of US$1.1 million to the government of Nicaragua as a result of damages from Hurricane Otto. Damages triggered a CCRIF payment on the...
U.S. Sees Mandate on Talking Vehicles Cutting Road Crashes, Deaths
Dec 14 2016 // U.S. automobile regulators want passenger cars and light trucks to wirelessly stream data about their movements and monitor other vehicles so they don’t crash into each other. All new light-duty vehicles would be...
Fate of Anthem-Cigna Merger Now in Judge’s Hands
Dec 14 2016 // The first phase of the U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit to halt Anthem Inc.’s planned takeover of rival insurer Cigna Corp. is in the hands of a federal judge after the government wrapped up its arguments...
Tax Reformers Must Take Care Not to Kill Reinsurance Market
Dec 13 2016 // During the 2016 presidential election, one theme from President-elect Donald Trump rang louder than any other: the importance of keeping jobs in America and finding ways to encourage (or perhaps force) companies that have...
Fate of DuPont Chemical Lawsuits Rests on Wording in 2004 Pact
Dec 13 2016 // For DuPont Co. and its Chemours Co. spinoff, hundreds of millions of dollars hinge on the interpretation of the word “among.” A Cincinnati appeals court heard arguments Friday that will affect the fate of...
Georgia-Based ConAgra to Finalize $11.2M Settlement Over Tainted Peanut Butter
Dec 12 2016 // Food giant ConAgra faces a court hearing to finalize an $11.2 million settlement – including the largest criminal fine ever in a U.S. food safety case – to resolve federal charges in a salmonella outbreak that sickened...
Aetna CEO Denies Obamacare Exits Were Retaliation for U.S. Opposing Humana Merger
Dec 12 2016 // Aetna Inc.’s chief executive denied on Friday that its withdrawal from some Obamacare exchanges was in retaliation for government efforts to halt its merger with Humana Inc, as he sought to convince a federal judge...
NAIC Taps Former Pennsylvania Commissioner, Transamerica Exec Consedine as CEO
Dec 12 2016 // Ten months after its last chief executive officer departed, the national organization of state insurance regulators has named former Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael F. Consedine as its new CEO. Consedine will...
U.S. Approves Modified Arkansas’ ‘Private Option’ Medicaid Expansion
Dec 9 2016 // Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson says federal officials have approved a number of changes the state wants to make in a Medicaid expansion program known as “Arkansas Works.” The governor said that the Department of...
La Niña to Lessen Over Next Few Months: U.S. Weather Service
Dec 8 2016 // A U.S. government weather forecaster on Thursday said weak La Niña conditions were present but favored to dissipate in the coming months. The National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center said in a monthly...
New Zealand Quake’s Insured Losses Estimated at $705M-$3.5B: Aon Cat Report
Dec 8 2016 // Insurance losses from last month’s magnitude 7.8 earthquake in New Zealand are likely to range between NZ$1.0 to 5.0 billion (US$705 million and US$3.5 billion), according to a report published by Impact Forecasting,...
Johnson & Johnson to Challenge $1 Billion Hip Implant Verdict
Dec 8 2016 // Johnson & Johnson will challenge the fairness of a trial that produced a verdict of $1 billion in damages against the company last week over allegations of design flaws in its Pinnacle hip implant. Although legal...
Insurers Lobby for Clarity as Republicans Move to Repeal Obamacare
Dec 8 2016 // The largest lobbying group for health insurers has asked U.S. lawmakers weighing the fate of Obamacare to push back the due date for 2018 individual insurance submissions to regulators in hopes of obtaining greater clarity...
A Look Back at 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season
Dec 8 2016 // The 2016 Atlantic hurricane season concluded on Nov. 30 with 15 named storms generating seven hurricanes, three of which were considered major ones, according to the industry’s Insurance Information Institute...
Supreme Court Orders Refiguring of Samsung’s Damages in Patent Fight with Apple
Dec 6 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with Samsung in its big-money smartphone patent fight with Apple, throwing out an appeals court ruling that said the South Korean company had to pay a $399 million penalty to its...
Court Delays Appeal Over Obamacare’s Insurer Reimbursements Until After Trump Takes Office
Dec 6 2016 // A federal appeals court on Monday agreed to put on hold until after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January the Obama administration’s appeal of a judge’s ruling favoring a Republican...
Insureon CEO on Growth, Hockey Pucks and the Perils of Complacency
Dec 6 2016 // A major online provider of commercial insurance for small businesses in the United States keeps track of its growth milestones with hockey pucks. OK, that might be a bit of a stretch but Chicago-based Insureon definitely...
House Labor Panel Chair Foxx Ready to Take on Unions, Democrats
Dec 6 2016 // The incoming chair of the congressional panel that oversees labor issues on Monday questioned the need for unions and said she wants to repeal various Obama administration labor policies. Organized labor has “sort of...
