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Religious Groups, Obama Administration Cool to Supreme Court Birth Control Proposal
Apr 14 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court got a mixed reaction from the Obama administration and religious groups to its unusual proposal to resolve a clash over employee insurance coverage for contraceptives. In a court filing Tuesday, U.S....
Automakers, Tech Industries Must Plug Cybersecurity Gaps, Says U.S. Official
Apr 14 2016 // Internet-connected and driverless cars could be targets for hackers — potentially including terrorists and hostile nations — so the automotive industry must ensure vehicles have built-in cybersecurity...
How Italy’s Generali Is Connecting U.S. With Its Global Network
Apr 14 2016 // The U.S. branch of Generali’s Global Corporate & Commercial business unit has launched a property insurance product for U.S.-based multinational corporations. GC&C is a relative new kid on the block in...
Public Health Experts Warn U.S. Unprepared for Zika Outbreak
Apr 13 2016 // Despite dire predictions that the Zika virus could affect much of the United States including large cities this summer, two public health law experts warn that the country is unprepared, and the financial and moral...
Carmakers Want Insurers to Help Boost Compliance with Recalls
Apr 13 2016 // Major carmakers want U.S. auto insurance companies to help persuade millions of American car owners to get recalled vehicles fixed. The new push comes as a U.S. House panel will hold a hearing Thursday on efforts by the...
Ex-AIG CEO Benmosche’s Memoir Talks of Fending Off Wall Street Sharks
Apr 13 2016 // Robert Benmosche, the former American International Group Inc. chief executive officer who repaid a U.S. bailout, left behind criticism for Wall Street after his death. “The commissions being charged on the auctions...
Jury to Decide If Led Zeppelin Ripped Off ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Licks
Apr 12 2016 // Led Zeppelin founders Jimmy Page and Robert Plant lost their bid to avoid a trial that may rewrite the history of rock n’ roll over song-writing credit for the 1971 classic “Stairway to Heaven.” A federal...
BAE Uses Cyber Skills Developed in British Intelligence Services to Help Clients
Apr 12 2016 // In January, BAE Systems Plc got a routine call from a new client: The health-care company’s computer systems were mysteriously crashing. BAE’s sleuths soon discovered a dangerous new strain of a virus called...
Federal Court Rules CGL Insurance Covers Data Breach
Apr 12 2016 // A federal appeals court in Virginia has upheld a lower federal court in ruling that a commercial general liability policy (CGL) may cover a data breach. In a case involving the publication of private medical records on the...
Mississippi AG Hood Wins Right to Continue Google Probe
Apr 11 2016 // Google can’t duck an investigation by the Mississippi attorney general into objectionable search engine content that the company calls a threat to Internet freedom. A U.S. appeals court said Friday that a judge was...
MetLife Systemic Risk Battle Not Over as U.S. Files Appeal
Apr 11 2016 // The U.S. government on Friday appealed a court decision that major insurer MetLife cannot be considered “too big to fail” in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, according to a...
Ironshore Acquires Remaining Interest in Lexon Surety
Apr 11 2016 // Bermuda-based specialty insurer Ironshore Inc. said it will acquire the remaining 80 percent equity interest in Lexon Surety Group and its surety-related affiliates. Ironshore said it will be an all-cash transaction. Lexon...
FACTBOX: Meteorologists Predict 2016 Hurricane Season Will Be More Active
Apr 8 2016 // Early forecasts from meteorologists suggest the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season will be more active than normal, partly because of the expected end of the El Niño weather pattern in the next few months. Weather forecasters...
Judge Calls FSOC Review of MetLife ‘Fatally Flawed;’ Government Vows Appeal
Apr 8 2016 // The U.S. government panel that decided MetLife Inc. was too big to fail erred in not analyzing the insurer’s vulnerability to financial distress, according to the federal judge who rescinded that designation last...
Texas Teen’s Death Linked to Faulty Takata Air Bag, 10th in U.S.
Apr 7 2016 // A 10th person has died in a crash in the U.S. involving a ruptured Takata Corp. air-bag inflator, according to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. A 17-year-old woman died from injuries sustained in a...
U.S. Storms in March Will Cost Insurers $2 Billion: Aon Benfield’s Cat Report
Apr 7 2016 // Insurers face a $2.0 billion bill following seven severe storm events across multiple states in March, according to Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team. Overall economic losses...
Pilots: Don’t Underestimate Safety Threat Posed by Drones
Apr 7 2016 // You’re landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport on the “expressway” approach—it’s called that because you come in low enough to buzz the Grand Central Parkway and Mets’ Citi Field...
Massey Ex-CEO Blankenship Sentenced to 1 Year in Jail for Fatal Mine Explosion
Apr 6 2016 // Former coal baron Donald Blankenship was sentenced to a year in prison for evading mine-safety rules in one of the final chapters of a fatal mine explosion that was the worst U.S. coal industry accident in almost 40...
6 Years After Upper Big Branch Tragedy, Ex-CEO of Mine Faces Sentencing
Apr 6 2016 // Six years after 29 miners were killed in a West Virginia coal dust explosion, the man who ran the mining company like a fiefdom — a coal baron and power broker who earned millions of dollars a year — will learn...
Judge Dismisses Birth Defect Warning Claims Against Pfizer’s Zoloft
Apr 6 2016 // A federal judge in Philadelphia granted Pfizer Inc.’s request to dismiss more than 300 lawsuits attempting to link the antidepressant Zoloft to heart defects in newborns. Pfizer was accused in lawsuits filed by...
