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Painkiller Prescribing Varies By State, Highest in South; Florida Reverses Trend: CDC
Jul 2 2014 // Health care providers in some states prescribe far more painkillers than those in other states, according to a new government report. Health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid painkillers in 2012 –...
Markel Now Underwriting Trade Credit Insurance in U.S.
Jul 2 2014 // Markel Corp. is now underwriting trade credit insurance in its New York office. Policies will be underwritten on an admitted basis, utilizing two Markel insurance companies, Markel American Insurance Co. and Markel...
Klisura to Lead New Marsh Global Placement Team; Lang to Head U.S. Placement
Jul 2 2014 // Insurance broker Marsh has named Dean Klisura as head of the firm’s newly created Global Placement organization. Klisura will oversee all of Marsh’s insurance placement activities, including wholesale, retail,...
Supreme Court to Decide UPS Workplace Pregnancy Accommodation Dispute
Jul 2 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court will use a case involving United Parcel Service Inc. to decide whether pregnant employees can be denied accommodations such as light duty when other workers with disabilities receive them. The court...
Export-Import Bank Could Be Reformed Rather Than Closed
Jul 2 2014 // The U.S. Export-Import Bank, derided by conservative critics as an expensive boondoggle, may win a reprieve from what looked like almost certain death in Congress if enough Republicans can be persuaded to let it live on,...
Brokers Say Reinsurance Prices under Pressure at Mid-year Renewals
Jul 2 2014 // Reinsurance prices fell by as much as 25 percent in key markets mid-year as pension funds poured in money and demand for cover from insurance companies remained subdued, brokers said on Tuesday. Reinsurers have been...
Cybersecurity Analysts Stress Need for Data Sharing by Companies
Jul 2 2014 // In an 11-story office building in the Washington suburbs, hundreds of U.S. cybersecurity analysts work around the clock to foil hackers. Possible breaches of government networks show up as red flashes on screens that line...
Court Tosses Liability Claims Against Painkiller Drugmakers
Jul 1 2014 // A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the dismissal of nearly all claims in 68 cases seeking to hold drug makers liable for injuries from the use of the prescription painkillers Darvon and Darvocet, which were pulled...
U.S. Risk Names Dean Mills a Vice President for the Houston Office of U.S. Risk Brokers, Inc.
Jul 1 2014 // Dallas, TX – July 1, 2014 – U.S. Risk Insurance Group, Inc. (www.usrisk.com), the eighth largest managing general agency and surplus lines wholesaler in the nation, announced that it has named Dean Mills a Vice...
Overselling the Costs, Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Regulations
Jul 1 2014 // The Environmental Protection Agency calls its carbon rules an economic winner that will deliver more than $10 in benefits for each dollar spent on compliance. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says the economic costs of...
Upper Mississippi River Closed Due to Rising Waters After Heavy Rains
Jun 30 2014 // Rising flood waters were expected to make 11 locks and dams impassable on the mid- and upper-Mississippi River and force the closure of the river later on Monday from Bellevue, Iowa, to Saverton, Missouri, the U.S. Army...
AIG Ex-CEO Greenberg Loses Supreme Court Appeal in Suit Against Bailout
Jun 30 2014 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal by former American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, who accused the Federal Reserve Bank of New York of unlawfully bailing...
New York’s Top Court Says Towns Can Ban Fracking
Jun 30 2014 // New York’s cities and towns can block hydraulic fracturing within their borders, the state’s highest court ruled, dealing a blow to an industry awaiting Governor Andrew Cuomo’s decision on whether to...
June Closes with Severe Storms; Tropical Storm Could Skirt East Coast July 4th
Jun 30 2014 // Forecasters are watching a potential tropical system that may skirt the U.S. East Coast this week, brushing past major Northeastern cities in time for the Fourth of July holiday. The collection of thunderstorms now about...
BP Wants Business to Repay ‘Windfall’ Oil Spill Claim Overayments
Jun 30 2014 // BP Plc has asked a U.S. judge to direct what it called a “vast number” of businesses to repay hundreds of millions of dollars it says were wrongly awarded as compensation on claims stemming from the 2010 Gulf...
The Right Climate for Tree Huggers, Hippies and iPads
Jun 27 2014 // Editor’s Note: This is the first of an ongoing column covering the impact of climate change and emerging environmental regulations on the insurance and financial industries. It will appear every other week. The 1970s...
Small Businesses Lobby for Export-Import Bank
Jun 27 2014 // If the battle over the U.S. Export-Import Bank is Washington’s latest political tempest, then Don Nelson from Bakersfield, California is aiming at the eye of the storm. Nelson’s small oilfield equipment company...
The Political Battle Over Export-Import Bank
Jun 27 2014 // A day before U.S. House Republicans were to vote on a new majority leader, lawmakers aligned with the limited-government Tea Party movement delivered a message to the leading candidate, Kevin McCarthy of California. They...
Another Climate Report Outlines Business Risks, Insurance Pitfalls
Jun 26 2014 // “Risky Business: The Economic Risks of Climate Change to the United States,” a report on climate change and how it will affect businesses, offers a variety of information on how a changing world will impact...
As America Overall Ages with Boomers, Energy States See Youth Boom
Jun 26 2014 // Seven states, including five in the Great Plains, saw their median age decline between 2012 and 2013, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates. At the same time, the median age for the U.S. as a whole ticked up from 37.5...
