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Insurance Executives Say Ongoing Budget Battles Will Harm U.S. Economy
Jan 17 2013 // Leaders of the property/casualty insurance industry believe Washington’s ongoing budget fracas will have a negative impact on the U.S. economy, according to a survey conducted by the Insurance Information Institute...
Media Firms Join Fight Against Delaware Business Court’s ‘Secret’ Dealings
Jan 17 2013 // Major U.S. news organizations have urged a federal appeals court to prevent Delaware from allowing sitting judges to arbitrate business disputes in private, saying the system raised suspicions of preferential treatment for...
Genworth Separates Mortgage Insurance Unit, Reduces Bond Default Risk
Jan 17 2013 // Genworth Financial Inc. on Wednesday said it was reorganizing itself to separate its mortgage insurance business from the rest of the company, reducing the risk of default on its bonds and sending its shares up 9...
Huge Sahara Gas Plant Hostage Siege Turns Mali War Global
Jan 17 2013 // Islamist gunmen holding dozens of Western hostages and scores of Algerians at a gas plant deep in the Sahara desert let some them speak to the media on Thursday to warn that they would be blown up if the site is...
Heavy-Duty Restricted Guns Legally Sold in Texas
Jan 16 2013 // In a heavily guarded store just southwest of Houston, twin .50-caliber “Ma Deuce” machine guns rise up side by side from a mount that could be bolted to the deck of a warship or truck bed. The guns can fire...
Starr Investments Wins $77M Damages in China Media Firm Case
Jan 16 2013 // A Hong Kong arbitration panel has ruled that China MediaExpress Holdings Inc. was a “fraudulent enterprise” and awarded $77 million to Starr Investments, a firm run by former AIG chief Maurice Greenberg, a U.S....
Aon Benfield ILS Report Notes $1.89 Billion Issued in Q4; $6.25 Billion in 2012
Jan 16 2013 // In its latest report on the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, which reviews the key trends witnessed during the fourth quarter of 2012, Aon Benfield Securities, the investment banking division of global reinsurance...
Japanese Airlines Ground Boeing 787 Dreamliners after Emergency Landing
Jan 16 2013 // Japan’s two leading airlines grounded their fleets of Boeing 787s on Wednesday after one of the Dreamliner passenger jets made an emergency landing, the latest in a series of incidents to heighten safety concerns...
U.S. Plans to Negotiate Services Trade Pacts with EU, Japan, 18 Others
Jan 16 2013 // The United States said on Tuesday it plans to negotiate an agreement with the European Union, Japan and 18 other economies to remove trade and investment barriers in services ranging from finance to express...
Judge Rules News Outlets’ Use of Photo on Twitter Violated Copyright
Jan 16 2013 // A U.S. judge has found that two news organizations improperly used images that a photojournalist had posted to Twitter in one of the first big tests of intellectual property law involving social media. Agence France-Presse...
Sources Say Iran Charters Oil Tanker with Indian Insurance
Jan 15 2013 // A loophole in an Indian insurance scheme has allowed Iran’s state-run tanker company NITC to bolster oil exports by chartering a vessel insured by India’s state-run firms, industry and shipping sources said on...
Obama Administration Urges Congress to Pass Farm, Crop Insurance Bill
Jan 15 2013 // Congress should reform U.S. farm subsidies, and end a $5 billion a year “direct payment,” as part of delivering an overdue overhaul of the farm program this year, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on...
U.S. to Open Trade Talks on Global Insurance, Financial Services
Jan 15 2013 // The U.S. Trade Representative’s office is expected to notify Congress soon of its plan to enter into talks with the European Union and more than a dozen other countries on a pact to tear down barriers to trade in...
2012 Landmark Year for Workplace Class Action Litigation: Study
Jan 14 2013 // When it comes to complex employment-related legal disputes, 2012 will be considered a landmark year, according to a new report on employment class action litigation. Many of the key rulings of 2012 in class action cases...
New Reform-Minded Farm Law Needed: American Farm Bureau
Jan 14 2013 // U.S. farmers want a new reform-minded farm law even if it means the end of a popular $5 billion-a-year subsidy that is paid regardless of need, the president of the largest U.S. farm group said on...
Is the WTO About to Abandon Dream of Global Free Trade?
Jan 14 2013 // As it seeks a new chief to lead it out of a negotiating death-spiral, the World Trade Organization looks doomed to be fatally undermined by new global carve-ups that will leave many of the world’s poorest...
Mississippi Rock Blasting Puts River in Ship Shape
Jan 14 2013 // Crews have completed the most critical phase of removing bedrock that threatened barges along a crucial stretch of the drought-starved Mississippi River, staving off the shipping industry’s fears that the treacherous...
Obesity and Workers’ Comp Costs
Jan 14 2013 // Health care reform has been at the top of the political agenda through the past two presidential elections, and with it has come greater awareness of the need for wellness and prevention to counter growing medical problems...
Tasty, Healthy and Safe
Jan 14 2013 // We are what we eat, the saying goes. So let’s hope what we eat is not only tasty and good for us, but safe as well. To that end, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed new food safety rules aimed at...
2012’s Weather Brought Its Share of Billion-Dollar Events
Jan 14 2013 // Last year may not have measured up to 2011 in terms total damages or havoc wreaked, but the tally on the year’s billion-dollar weather related events still ranks as impressive. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
