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Surge in Brain Trauma Among Young Athletes Spurs Call for Action
Jul 16 2013 // A surge in sports-related brain injuries among the youth is pushing U.S. health officials to call for public policy changes after similar safety efforts helped reduce head-trauma deaths from motor vehicle accidents. A 40...
ACE Expands Catastrophe Capacity in North America
Jul 15 2013 // The ACE Group has increased catastrophe limits to $30 million across all its North American retail and wholesale broker-distributed commercial property lines of business. This capacity will be offered through ACE’s...
Fast-Growing Craft Brewers Slow to Adopt Workplace Safety
Jul 15 2013 // Welder Mark Moynihan crawled down a narrow tube into a space the size of a car interior to seal the crack in the fermentation tank at Calhoun’s Bar-B-Q & Brewery in Knoxville, Tennessee. The space was...
Some Victims Appeal Medical Benefits in BP Oil Spill Settlement as ‘Unfair’
Jul 12 2013 // The medical benefits portion of BP Plc’s settlement over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is “substantively unfair” and approval of the accord should be reversed, lawyers opposing the agreement told an...
House Passes Republican Farm Bill Without Food Stamps
Jul 11 2013 // House Republicans passed a five-year U.S. farm-policy bill that retains subsidies to farmers and strips out food-stamp spending, costing it Democratic support. The plan was approved today 216-208, with no Democrats in...
Progressive Premium Revenue Climbs, Profit More Than Doubles
Jul 11 2013 // Progressive Corp., the fourth- largest U.S. auto insurer, said profit more than doubled as premium revenue climbed after the company raised rates for coverage. But the insurer declined in New York trading as the results...
Top 10 U.S. Aircraft Insurers: SNL
Jul 11 2013 // American International Group Inc. (AIG) has been reported to be the lead insurer for the recent Asiana Flight 214 tragedy in San Francisco. AIG’s role is not surprising, given its presence in Asia and focus on the...
Europe’s Floods Top Aon Benfield’s List of June’s Catastrophes
Jul 11 2013 // The latest report from Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe model development center of excellence at Aon Benfield, which reviews the natural disasters that occurred worldwide during June 2013, highlights the $22 billion in...
Walgreen, Blue Cross to Aid in Educating Public on Obamacare
Jul 11 2013 // Walgreen Co., the biggest U.S. drugstore chain, agreed to join with the largest federation of health insurers to promote the Affordable Care Act, lending a hand as the Obama administration strains to win over the...
‘Commercial Ties,’ ‘Economic Growth’ Top EU/U.S. Trade Talk Agenda
Jul 11 2013 // Marjorie Chorlins, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Senior Director for Europe, issued a statement itemizing the Chamber’s views on the opening round of negotiations between the U.S. and Europe for the Transatlantic...
Deadly Quebec Train Crash Creates Fertile Ground for Lawsuits
Jul 11 2013 // As investigators try to piece together how a parked oil freight train broke free and demolished the heart of a small Quebec town last weekend, a barrage of litigation could soon be hitting everyone from the U.S. rail...
Pennsylvania Law Banning Gay Marriage Faces Court Challenge
Jul 10 2013 // The American Civil Liberties Union said it filed the first known legal challenge Tuesday seeking to overturn a state law effectively banning same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania, the only northeastern state that doesn’t...
AIG, GE Capital Accept Systemically Important Designations
Jul 10 2013 // American International Group Inc. and General Electric Co.’s finance unit were designated systemically important by U.S. regulators, a ruling the companies had already agreed to accept. The vote by the Financial...
Oil Tank Cars Like Those in Quebec Rail Tragedy Long Seen as Flawed
Jul 10 2013 // The oil-laden train that derailed and exploded in a small Canadian town on Saturday, possibly killing as many as 50 people, included a class of railcar whose vulnerability to leaks and deadly explosions was well known to...
Will Bernanke Testify in Greenberg’s Bailout Lawsuit?
Jul 10 2013 // U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke shouldn’t be compelled to testify in Maurice “Hank” Greenberg’s lawsuit over the government’s bailout of American International Group Inc., the...
U.S. EU Launch Free Trade Talks Despite Spying Concerns
Jul 9 2013 // The United States and the European Union began talks on Monday on a landmark bilateral free trade agreement, despite European concerns about U.S. spying that had threatened to delay the start after nearly two years of...
Flood Losses Dominate Disaster Count in 1st Half of 2013: Munich Re
Jul 9 2013 // Floods caused billions of dollars in losses and dominated the natural catastrophe statistics for the first half of 2013, according to a study released by Munich Re. “Around 47 percent of the overall losses and 45...
Ironshore Promotes White to Senior VP of U.S. Wholesale Distribution
Jul 9 2013 // Bermuda-based specialty insurer Ironshore Inc. promoted Timothy R. White to senior vice president of U.S. wholesale distribution. He will be based in Boston. White will be responsible for the strategy and planning of...
Retailers Plan Bangladesh Factory Inspections under Safety Pact
Jul 9 2013 // A group of mainly European retailers has finalized a plan to conduct coordinated inspections of factories in Bangladesh in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the Rana Plaza disaster that killed 1,129 people in April. The...
Asiana Could Save Millions Under Provision Limiting Passenger Suits in U.S.
Jul 9 2013 // Asiana Airlines Inc. could avoid hundreds of millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements by employing a tactic under international law to bar Chinese and South Korean passengers from suing in victim-friendly U.S....
