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Volkswagen Wants 350 Diesel Fraud Claims Consolidated
Oct 26 2015 // Volkswagen AG is maneuvering to steer hundreds of class-action lawsuits over its emissions-cheating software to the court nearest its current U.S. headquarters or to Detroit, its former location. The automaker asked a...
A Wary Drone Industry Awaits Details of Registry
Oct 22 2015 // Some drone industry representatives are reacting cautiously to plans by the Obama administration to combat a growing safety threat by requiring buyers to register their drones with the government. The U.S. Transportation...
BHSI Adds New Leadership, Expands Executive, Professional Lines Offerings
Oct 21 2015 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has added new leadership to its Executive & Professional Lines as part of the company’s expansion of its dedicated underwriting capabilities in the U.S. According to...
P/C Insurers Posted $31B Profit for 2015 1st Half, Highest 1st-Half Income Since ’07
Oct 21 2015 // Private U.S. property/casualty insurers’ net income after taxes grew to $31.0 billion in the first half of 2015 from $26.0 billion in the first half of 2014, according to a report today from Verisk Analytics’...
Sony Settles Employees’ Suit Over ‘The Interview’ Data Breach for $8 Million
Oct 21 2015 // Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. has agreed to pay up to $8 million to resolve a lawsuit by employees who claimed their personal data was stolen in a 2014 hacking tied to the studio’s release of a comedy set in North...
Climate Change Adds Billions to U.S. Hurricane Losses: Study
Oct 20 2015 // Climate change has added billions to the toll of hurricane strikes on the U.S., according to a study that challenges the prevailing scientific view that the rising cost is mainly because more buildings, towns and...
Dewey Case Ends with Hung Jury; Top Execs Avoid Jail
Oct 20 2015 // Three former top executives of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP avoided potential prison terms after a Manhattan jury failed to agree on whether they lied to investors in the run-up to the largest law-firm bankruptcy in...
Report: West Virginia Leads U.S. in Prescription Drug Overdoses
Oct 19 2015 // Nearly 2,900 West Virginians have overdosed on prescription painkillers or heroin over the past five years, according to the state Health Statistics Center. The center also said overdose deaths last year were the highest...
Apple Ordered to Pay $234M in U. Wisconsin Patent Infringement Case
Oct 19 2015 // A U.S. jury has ordered Apple Inc. to pay the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s patent licensing arm more than $234 million in damages for incorporating its microchip technology into some of the company’s...
Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Adds New All Risk Property Program in 50 States
Oct 19 2015 // San Diego, CA, October 19 2015 – Arrowhead General Insurance Agency, Inc. (Arrowhead), one of the largest program administrators in the country, announced today the addition of a new Commercial All Risk property...
10 Things to Know About Commercial Property
Oct 19 2015 // Commercial property insurance continues to be a buyer’s market with additional capacity still making its way into an already overcrowded space. In the current market it is important for the insureds to set goals...
U.S. Senator from Nevada Suing Exercise Band Maker over Eye Injury
Oct 19 2015 // U.S. Sen. Harry Reid is suing a company that makes and markets a flexible exercise band that he says slipped from his hand, causing him to fall and suffer eye, face and rib injuries on New Year’s Day. A lawsuit filed...
Next Class of Veterans Begins Insurance Career Training at Florida-Based DVIC
Oct 18 2015 // Disabled Veterans Insurance Careers (DVIC) has launched its next class of disabled veteran trainees. The veterans will spend the next six months training and learning the many facets of the insurance industry in order to...
Unlike Uber, On-Demand Office Service Cleans Up with Employees
Oct 16 2015 // It’s scorching on the streets of Midtown Manhattan as Afonso Oliveira strides around the lunch-break crowds, unbent beneath his 45-pound, $350 industrial backpack. He is carrying everything that might be needed to...
Why Australia’s IAG Decided to Halt China Expansion Plans
Oct 16 2015 // When Insurance Australia Group, the country’s largest general insurer, announced ambitious plans in June to ramp up its business in Mainland China, several institutional investors including Jason Kim were seriously...
EU, U.S. Insurance Organizations Call for ‘Full Inclusion’ in the TTIP
Oct 16 2015 // The American Insurance Association (AIA), Insurance Europe, and the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI) have jointly issued a bulletin that reiterates their support “for the full inclusion of insurance in the...
Farmers Insurance Facing Possible Class Action by ‘Hundreds’ of Female Attorneys
Oct 15 2015 // An attorney representing a woman suing Farmers Insurance for discriminatory practices was set to file a motion on Thursday seeking class action status in a suit she says could potentially encompass 300 female...
U.S. and Alaska Won’t Seek Another $92M From Exxon For Spill Decades Ago
Oct 15 2015 // U.S. and Alaska state officials announced on Wednesday they will no longer seek an additional $92 million from Exxon Mobil Corp. to pay for environmental cleanup and restoration stemming from the massive Exxon Valdez oil...
Supreme Court Weighs When an Offer Ends Class Action
Oct 15 2015 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared closely divided as it weighed a class action case in which advertising agency Campbell-Ewald Co. is attempting to fend off a lawsuit over claims that it violated a federal...
Apple Loses Univ. of Wisconsin Patent Lawsuit
Oct 14 2015 // Apple Inc. could be facing up to $862 million in damages after a U.S. jury on Oct. 13 found the iPhone maker used technology owned by the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s licensing arm without permission in chips...
