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Floods from Matthew in Eastern North Carolina Called ‘Worse than Floyd’
Oct 17 2016 // Standing on the banks of the Neuse River this week, watching water creep ever-closer to the bottom of the King Street Bridge, crowds of people continually compared what was happening to what Hurricane Floyd wrought here 17...
Take1 Insurance Launches Terrorism, Crisis Coverage for Special Events
Oct 17 2016 // Take1 Insurance has introduced Take1 Combined Crisis Cover insurance protection for the live and special event industry. The coverage provides immediate coverage of up to $1 million annually in the event of, or threat of,...
Insurance Industry Urged to Weigh Shift to Intangible Risks
Oct 14 2016 // Panelists at a recent New York event hosted yesterday by Lloyd’s, the world’s specialist insurance market, and the American Security Project, a nonpartisan national security think-tank, urged the insurance...
Small Trucking Firms Fear Being Driven Out of Business by Electronic Log Rule
Oct 14 2016 // A new regulation that will force U.S. trucking companies to electronically log employee hours is designed to limit accidents by keeping tired drivers off the road. It may also drive smaller trucking firms out of...
US Robotics Firm Launches Blood Delivery Service in Rwanda – Using Drones
Oct 14 2016 // Rwandan doctors stranded without vital blood supplies are about to be rescued by an important new ally in their fight to save lives: drone deliveries. Zipline, a California-based robotics company, will launch a service on...
U.S. Adjustments to Rules on Tax Inversions Include Exemption for Insurers
Oct 14 2016 // The U.S. Treasury Department softened new rules aimed at preventing multinational companies from shifting their profits offshore to lower-tax countries — a response to sustained criticism from big business and from...
Car Insurer Hagerty Opens its First U.S. Regional Office in Colorado
Oct 13 2016 // Hagerty has opened its first U.S. regional office in Golden, Colo. McKeel Hagerty, CEO of Hagerty, said Golden was chosen because it has a diverse workforce, friendly business environment and proximity to a major...
CEO Succession at U.S. Aviation Underwriters: Brogan to Succeed McKay in 2017
Oct 13 2016 // United States Aviation Underwriter Inc. (USAU), the manager of the United States Aircraft Insurance Group (USAIG), announced that David McKay, chairman and chief executive officer, plans to retire after nearly 40 years...
Study: Climate Change Has Doubled Western U.S. Forest Fires
Oct 13 2016 // A new study says that human-induced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest fires in the U.S. West over the last 30 years. Since 1984 heightened temperatures and resulting aridity have caused fires to spread...
Using Big Data to Predict Terrorist Acts Amid Privacy Concerns
Oct 13 2016 // Before Ahmad Khan Rahami planted bombs in New York and New Jersey, he bought bomb-making materials on eBay, linked to jihad-related videos from his public social-media account and was looked into by law enforcement agents,...
LIU Launches War and Terrorism Coverage for U.S. Businesses
Oct 13 2016 // Liberty International Underwriters (LIU), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance, has launched stand-alone war and terrorism coverage to protect U.S. businesses at home and their assets abroad. In 2014, the cost of global...
InsurTech Startup Launches Lease Guarantee Platform in New York
Oct 12 2016 // TheGuarantors, a New York based insurance tech startup founded in 2014, is seeking to make renting an apartment in New York easier for landlords, brokers and renters through its newly launched tech-enabled lease guarantee...
Ironshore International Offers PI & GL Cover for Engineers Based Outside U.S.
Oct 12 2016 // Ironshore International has introduced a packaged policy to provide combined professional indemnity and general liability insurance for specialist engineers. Bermuda-headquartered Ironshore said it will underwrite coverage...
Study Finds Climate Change Could Lead to More Hurricanes on NYC Coast
Oct 12 2016 // Hurricanes could start flooding New York City’s coastline as often as every 20 years due to the effects of climate change on sea-level rise and hurricane activity, scientists said on Monday. Water could surge some 9...
U.S. Scrutiny of Fosun’s Ironshore Sends Signal on Other China Deals
Oct 12 2016 // Insurance mergers and acquisitions rarely raise red flags with U.S. national security watchdogs. China’s Fosun International Ltd. took that history to heart last year when it paid $1.84 billion for the remaining 80...
Court Limits Director’s Power But Lets U.S. Consumer Protection Bureau Survive
Oct 12 2016 // The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau survived a constitutional challenge and will remain in business, though a federal appeals court took away power from its director and tossed out a $109 million penalty against a...
North Carolina Flooding from Hurricane Matthew Worsens, Death Toll Rises
Oct 11 2016 // Flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew has displaced several thousand people in North Carolina, and authorities were helping more evacuate on Tuesday as swollen rivers threatened a wide swath of the state. Governor...
International Shipping Lanes Could Be at Risk from Escalating Yemen Conflict
Oct 11 2016 // Missile attacks from Yemen on Western military craft risk spilling over into nearby busy sea lanes which could disrupt oil supplies and also other vital goods passing through the tense area, shipping and insurance sources...
How Self-Driving Cars Will Make Motorcycles Safer
Oct 11 2016 // Self-driving technology promises to pretty much transform the auto industry as we know it. It may also change the business of selling motorcycles—but in a very different way. It all comes down to safety, according to...
Supreme Court Will Hear Apple-Samsung Patent Damages Dispute
Oct 11 2016 // After five years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday in the bitter patent dispute between the world’s two top smartphone manufacturers over the amount Samsung should pay Apple for...
