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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...
Munich Re: Sandy Tops 2012 Disasters
Jan 14 2013 // A series of severe weather-related catastrophes led to higher-than-normal losses in the United States last year. The world’s largest reinsurer Munich Re took a close look at these catastrophes in its “2012...
Declarations – Midwest
Jan 14 2013 // Certain Losses “Those cars are going to be losses.” —U.S. Postal Service spokesman Pete Nowacki said up to 30 postal vehicles and an undetermined number of employee cars were submerged behind a mail-sorting...
Foodborne Illness Cases Present Complex Coverage Questions
Jan 14 2013 // One of the most heavily litigated insurance issues in coverage liability cases related to outbreaks of widespread foodborne illnesses is the determination of occurrence where multiple people in multiple states are affected...
Governments Struggle with Financial Crisis as the Planet Warms up
Jan 11 2013 // The global economy has been through economic recessions before, and has eventually recovered from them. This time around, however, it must do so while coping with the ever increasing menace of climate change – that makes...
Double-Digit Returns Absent From Year-End, 2013 Financial Forecasts
Jan 11 2013 // Although analysts following the property/casualty insurance industry expect underwriting results for 2012 to be better than 2011 when full-year numbers are tallied, double-digit overall returns-on-equity are still not...
Study Urges National Healthcare Spending Target
Jan 11 2013 // The United States could save $2 trillion in healthcare spending over the next decade, if the U.S. government used its influence in the public and private sectors to nudge soaring costs into line with economic growth, a...
Confie Eyes More Expansion, Push Into Standard Lines
Jan 10 2013 // In the coming year Confie Seguros plans to up its buying spree and expand into standard personal and small commercial lines, while broadening its demographic from being primarily Hispanic focused, the president of the...
3rd Defendant in W Financial Group $17M Fraud Sentenced to Prison
Jan 10 2013 // A man who, along with two others, falsely used the names of two well-known insurance groups in a scheme to swindle elderly people out of millions of dollars has been sentenced to prison in North Texas. Adley Husni...
Surplus Lines Regulatory Picture for 2013
Jan 10 2013 // State implementation of the Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act (NRRA), effective July 21, 2011, proceeded relatively smoothly during 2012, albeit with a few hiccups as industry and regulators navigated the transition...
