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House Republicans Not Planning to Address Export-Import Bank Reauthorization
Aug 12 2014 // Reauthorization of the U.S. Export-Import Bank was left off a list of items that the No. 2 Republican in the House of Representatives expects his party to take up in September, raising new questions about the bank’s...
XL Group’s Trade Receivables Insurance Team Grows in US and UK
Aug 12 2014 // XL Group announced that it is addressing “businesses’ growing interest in Trade Receivables Insurance (TRI),” with the addition of “underwriting resources with the appointments of Jennifer...
Government Action, Insurance, Software Product Liability Urged for Cyber Security
Aug 11 2014 // Alarmed by mounting cyber threats around the world and across industries, a growing number of security experts see aggressive government action as the best hope for averting disaster. Even though some experts are outraged...
Hurricane Julio Downgraded To Category 1 Storm As It Struck Hawaii
Aug 11 2014 // Hurricane Julio weakened Sunday night as it neared Hawaii, where a rural swath of the Big Island was still coping with power outages and downed trees in the wake of Tropical Storm Iselle. On the island of Kauai, rescuers...
Salmonella Testing Not Required by Food Safety Law, Georgia Jurors Told
Aug 11 2014 // Jurors at the nation’s first federal criminal trial stemming from a deadly outbreak of food-borne illness are learning a disconcerting fact: America’s food safety largely depends on the honor system. Witnesses...
Food Company Wins Religious Exemption from Contraception Benefit
Aug 11 2014 // Fresh Unlimited Inc. won’t have to provide contraceptive coverage for its employees under the Obama administration’s healthcare reform law, in what may be the first exemption granted since a June U.S. Supreme...
Hundreds of Oregon Households Told to Flee Wildfire
Aug 8 2014 // A new wildfire pushed by gusting winds threatens the small Columbia River Gorge community of Rowena, Ore., where residents of 275 homes had been told to evacuate. The fire made a run along the river in the evening on Aug....
U.S. Fire Prevention Budget Tapped to Fight Summer’s Wildfires
Aug 8 2014 // The U.S. Forest Service will soon have to scale back some projects designed to help prevent wildfires so that it can meet the expenses of fighting this summer’s round of fires. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said...
Hawaii Spared Hurricane As Iselle Weakens to Tropical Storm
Aug 8 2014 // Hawaii escaped its first hurricane strike in 22 years as Iselle was downgraded to a tropical storm just before making landfall at the Big Island. Iselle, bearing winds of 60 miles (96 kilometers) per hour, was 80 miles...
Catlin Group 1st Half Pre-Tax Profits up 118% at $318; Net Uncome$273 Million
Aug 8 2014 // The Bermuda-based Catlin Group Limited posted strong increases in pretax profits and net income. The Group’s report for the first half of 2014 featured the following highlights in what it described as...
Chances of El Nino Down to 65%, Says U.S. Weather Service
Aug 7 2014 // A U.S. weather forecaster scaled down its estimate for the chances of the El Nino weather phenomenon occurring during autumn and early winter in the Northern Hemisphere to 65 percent, from an earlier estimate of 80...
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...
