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Lockton Appoints Hammond, Spencer, Nimmo to Leadership Positions
Sep 29 2015 // Privately-held insurance broker Lockton announced expanded leadership roles for Mike Hammond, Glenn Spencer and Neil Nimmo. Spencer has been named chief operating officer of Lockton Inc. and president of Lockton Companies...
Zurich Canada Issues ‘White Paper’ on Drones & Risk Management
Sep 28 2015 // Zurich Canada has released a new white paper on unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), commonly referred to as drones at the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) Canada Conference in Québec City. Entitled,...
U.S. Investors Sue Volkswagen Over Diesel Emissions Scandal
Sep 28 2015 // Volkswagen AG was accused in a lawsuit of scheming to defraud U.S. investors who paid artificially inflated prices for the company’s foreign shares while it cheated on vehicle emissions tests. In what may be the...
Court Now Likely for Joint Employer, Franchise Company Liability Case
Sep 28 2015 // A sanitation company at the center of a major U.S. labor board ruling that could force companies like McDonald’s Corp. to negotiate directly with franchise and contract workers has refused to bargain with workers...
Effect of U.S., China Cyber Pledge Unclear
Sep 28 2015 // The U.S. and China announced agreement on broad anti-hacking principles aimed at stopping the theft of corporate trade secrets though President Barack Obama pointedly said he has not ruled out invoking sanctions for...
New York Regulators to Shut Obamacare Insurer Health Republic
Sep 28 2015 // Health Republic Insurance of New York, the Affordable Care Act insurer that got $265 million in U.S. loans, will stop selling policies and eventually cease operations under orders from New York and federal regulators. The...
Planning the Special Event Insurance for Pope’s Philadelphia Visit
Sep 25 2015 // Pope Francis’ two-day visit to Philadelphia this weekend, which will close the Holy Father’s six-day apostolic journey to the U.S., has a special event policy in place with W.R. Berkley Corp. and OneBeacon...
Intellectual Property: Case of the Monkey’s Selfie and Animals’ Copyright
Sep 25 2015 // A macaque monkey who took now-famous selfie photographs should be declared the copyright owner of the photos, rather than the nature photographer who positioned the camera, animal-rights activists contend in a novel...
Car Dealers Sue Volkswagen Over Losses Tied to Diesel Cheating
Sep 25 2015 // Independent car dealerships sued Volkswagen AG in California on Thursday over losses they say they will incur following revelations that the company fitted some diesel models with software to cheat on U.S. vehicle...
How Regulators Caught Volkswagen’s Diesel Deception
Sep 25 2015 // The confession of cheating that’s embroiled Volkswagen AG in one of the biggest scandals in auto industry history came on a cool California morning, on the sidelines of an academic conference focused on green...
CoreLogic Adds Probabilistic Flood Model to Risk Management Program
Sep 25 2015 // CoreLogic, a residential property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider, has released an expanded version of its natural catastrophe risk management program, which features a probabilistic flood model...
Tropical Rains a Mixed Bag for Southwest Drought Relief
Sep 24 2015 // The tropical Pacific is sending a big dollop of rain into the U.S. Southwest. While it won’t help much in drought-ridden California, it’s another step in the right direction for Arizona and New Mexico. The...
Texas Goes From Drought to Flood to Drought in 60 Days
Sep 23 2015 // Across eastern Texas, parts of Louisiana and Mississippi the land went from moist to parched in a matter of weeks. Drought, which had been eradicated in Texas last spring, returned and spread across the South, reaching as...
Study: Rate of Hispanic Business Start-Ups Highest in Midwest
Sep 23 2015 // The growth in Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States is outstripping that of companies in general and the fastest growth has been in Midwest states, according to a study released Sept. 21. The number of...
OSHA Extends Comment Period for Injury Reporting Rule
Sep 23 2015 // The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is extending the deadline for submitting comments on a proposed rule that it says clarifies an employer’s continuing obligation to make and maintain an...
China’s President Xi Pledges ‘New Model’ of ‘Mutual Respect’ with U.S. Amid Tensions
Sep 23 2015 // Chinese President Xi Jinping opened his U.S. visit by seeking to ease concerns on almost every dispute between the two powers, even expressing readiness to cut a deal on one of the thorniest issues, cybersecurity. In a...
Clinton Targets High Drug Prices, Consumer Marketing
Sep 23 2015 // U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton proposed on Tuesday a $250 monthly cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs and other measures to stop what she called “price gouging” by...
Aetna Vows to Hike Pay for Low Wage Humana Workers After Takeover
Sep 23 2015 // Aetna Inc. plans to give raises to thousands of low-wage Humana Inc. employees as part of its acquisition of its smaller health-insurance rival. Pay for about 10,000 Humana employees will be lifted to $16 an hour after the...
Former Peanut Exec Gets 28 Years for Georgia Plant Salmonella Outbreak
Sep 23 2015 // A former peanut company executive was sentenced Monday to 28 years in prison for his role in a deadly salmonella outbreak, the stiffest punishment ever handed out to a producer in a foodborne illness case. The outbreak in...
Wisconsin Contractor to Pay $140K to Settle Age Discrimination, Retaliation Suit
Sep 22 2015 // Stack Bros. Mechanical Contractors Inc. of Superior, Wis., a heating and plumbing contractor in northern Wisconsin and northern Minnesota, will pay $140,000 and furnish other relief to settle an age discrimination and...
