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Nuisance Flooding Rising Problem for U.S. Cities: NOAA
Aug 7 2014 // Residents and officials in major U.S. cities know it doesn’t take a fierce storm or menacing hurricane to cause flooding as they increasingly have to deal with so-called “nuisance flooding” caused by...
Teens Say Parents Ignore Pleas to Stop Texting, Driving Under Influence
Aug 7 2014 // U.S. parents often ignore warnings from their teenage children by driving while texting or under the influence of marijuana, according to a survey released today by Liberty Mutual Holding Co. Forty-two percent of teen...
Typhoons a Major Cause of Losses in July: Aon Benfield – Impact Forecasting
Aug 7 2014 // The latest edition of Aon Benfield’s Impact Forecasting’s Global Catastrophe Recap report concludes that Super Typhoon Rammasun, which made separate landfalls in the Philippines and China, caused widespread...
Georgia Peanut Plant Owners Accused of Knowingly Shipping Salmonella Products
Aug 6 2014 // A Georgia peanut plant linked to a deadly salmonella outbreak cut corners and sent fake lab results to customers, endangering consumers nationwide, federal prosecutors said last Friday as they opened a rare case seeking...
Focusing on Disaster Costs Before Rather Than After They Happen
Aug 6 2014 // The United States spends a lot of money responding to natural disasters but comparatively little trying to limit the costs of disasters before they happen. As the costs to the government and the insurance industry mount,...
Obama Administration Weighing Options to Curb Corporate Inversions
Aug 6 2014 // The U.S. Treasury Department is examining unilateral actions to curb corporate inversions, reversing its position that only Congress has the authority to stop or slow the deals. About three weeks after Secretary Jacob J....
U.S., Rockefeller $100M Fund Promotes Natural Disaster Mitigation, Insurance for Poor
Aug 6 2014 // The U.S. Agency for International Development and the Rockefeller Foundation are starting a $100 million project to prepare vulnerable communities for climate- caused humanitarian disasters before they happen. The...
Allianz Specialty Reports on ‘Billion Dollar Challenge’ from Panama Canal Expansion
Aug 6 2014 // The Panama Canal is preparing to celebrate its 100th anniversary, accompanied by warnings from insurers are warning of the increased risks that will arise from its plan to double the cargo-carrying capacity of ships...
Healthcare Pros Now Offers a Zero Deductible Plan for its Miscellaneous and Assisted Living Programs
Aug 6 2014 // Dallas, TX, 8/6/14 — U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc. (www.usrisk.com), the ninth largest managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler in the nation, announced that the HealthcarePros division of U.S. Risk...
Hurricane Bertha to Pass by East Coast But Not Make Landfall: AIR
Aug 4 2014 // Bertha, which became the second hurricane of the 2014 Atlantic season today, made its way through the Caribbean as a weak and disorganized tropical storm this past weekend. Bertha is heading north and is expected to pass...
Forecasters Reaffirm Below-Average Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook
Aug 4 2014 // Colorado State University (CSU) researchers continue to predict a below-average hurricane season for the Atlantic basin in 2014, citing exceptionally unfavorable hurricane formation conditions in the tropical Atlantic...
ICAT Launches a New California Homeowners Earthquake Product
Aug 4 2014 // BOULDER, CO – (August 4, 2014) – ICAT, a leading provider of property insurance to businesses and residences in hurricane and earthquake exposed regions of the United States, is pleased to announce the launch of its...
NHC Tracking TS Bertha; No Immediate Threat to U.S.
Aug 4 2014 // The latest bulletin from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, issued at 5:00 A.M. EDT, locates the center of Tropical Storm Bertha approximately 220 miles – 350 km –east of Great Abaco Island in the...
Trucking Company Owner Pleads Guilty in Missouri to Cargo Theft Scheme
Aug 4 2014 // A Memphis, Tenn., business owner has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a cargo theft scheme that included a theft in West Plains, Mo. Tammy Dickinson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri,...
Energy Market Dynamics of Shifting Shale
Aug 4 2014 // The expansion of shale resource extraction encompasses several interrelated elements, including exploration risk, infrastructure project risk, and the risks associated with new or enlarged trade flows and the significant...
Chinese Drywall Maker Ordered to Pay $55,000, Stop Doing Business in U.S.
Aug 4 2014 // A federal judge in New Orleans has ordered a China-based maker of drywall to pay $55,000 in penalties and attorney fees – and to stop doing business in the United States – as punishment for refusing to take part in...
Time to Be Afraid – Preparing For Next Big Solar Storm
Aug 4 2014 // The probability of a solar storm striking Earth in the next decade with enough force to do serious damage to electricity networks could be as high as 12 percent, according to solar scientists. One such storm erupted from...
Administration Seeks Full Court Review of Obamacare Subsidies Ruling
Aug 3 2014 // The Obama administration asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to reconsider a three- judge panel’s ruling that customers on the federal marketplace authorized by the healthcare overhaul are ineligible...
New Suit Filed in Louisiana Claims Chinese Drywall Destroyed Homes
Aug 1 2014 // Lawyers for people who say their homes were wrecked by defective drywall made in China have filed a new lawsuit against the manufacturers and a new defendant — the Chinese Cabinet agency that oversees the country’s...
AIG, GE Capital Systemic Risk Designations Renewed
Aug 1 2014 // The top U.S. regulatory panel tasked with policing the safety of the financial system said on Thursday it is launching a review of potential risks in the asset management industry. But the Financial Stability Oversight...
