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Europe’s Lethal E.coli Strain May be Deadliest Yet
Jun 3 2011 // More than 1,600 people have been infected by a toxic strain of E.coli bacteria that has killed at least 17 and may be the deadliest yet in human history, health officials said on Friday. Germany is at the center of the...
Judge: No Reduction in Fine, Restitution in Louisiana Man’s Death
Jun 3 2011 // A federal judge has declined to reduce the $1 million fine and $2 million in restitution he ordered paid by a Colorado company that admitted partial responsibility for the death of a Baton Rouge plant worker. Chief U.S....
Cell Phone Cancer Report Comes As Supreme Court Weighs Lawsuits
Jun 2 2011 // The U.S. Supreme Court is considering the fate of litigation against cell phone makers over safety risks, just as the industry comes under more scrutiny in the wake of a health report from the World Health Organization. A...
Owners of Sears, Now Willis, Tower Seek Investor
Jun 2 2011 // The owners of North America’s tallest building, formerly known as the Sears Tower, are looking for an investor to help recapitalize the building that is an integral part of the Chicago skyline, a spokesman for the...
ICC Denounces Growing Protectionist Trend in G20 Countries
Jun 2 2011 // The Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has issued a statement urging G20 leaders to “keep markets open to trade, following worrying results from a recently released WTO-OECD-UNCTAD report that G20...
Countrywide’s Mozilo Asks to Dismiss Allstate Lawsuit
Jun 1 2011 // Angelo Mozilo, the former Countrywide Financial Corp. chief executive, urged a federal judge to throw out Allstate Corp.’s lawsuit seeking to hold him responsible for losses on toxic mortgage debt it bought. The...
U.S. Cuts Premiums for High Risk Plans, Begins Paying Brokers
Jun 1 2011 // Premiums for new federal health insurance plans that cover high-risk people with pre-existing conditions will drop by as much as 40 percent, federal health regulators said Tuesday. The government also will begin paying...
Intact Financial to Acquire AXA’s Canada Operations for $2.684 Billion
Jun 1 2011 // Intact Financial Corp has agreed to buy the Canadian arm of AXA Group for C$2.6 billion ($2.684 billion) in cash in a move that will boost its premiums by more than 40 percent and diversify its product mix. The deal to...
Senate Bill Would Set Wind-Vs.-Water Insurance Claim Formula
May 31 2011 // A U.S. senator from Mississippi is introducing a bill that tries to resolve wind-versus-water insurance disputes for structures wiped out by hurricanes. Republican Roger Wicker said that his bill would establish a formula...
Study Forecasts Ice Melt Will Close off Arctic’s Interior Riches
May 31 2011 // Global warming will likely open up coastal areas in the Arctic to development but close vast regions of the northern interior to forestry and mining by mid-century as ice and frozen soil under temporary winter roads melt,...
Visitors Raise Irish Hopes for an End to Financial Crisis
May 27 2011 // The people of Ireland cheered up a bit following the back to back visits of Great Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, and the President of the United States, Barack Obama, or O’bama as the name appeared in...
Insurers Eye Rate Increases as Hurricane Season Approaches
May 26 2011 // Property and casualty insurers craving respite from a long-running drop in prices are eyeing the start of the U.S. hurricane season next week in the hope that summer windstorms will finally turn the market. The June 1 to...
U.S. Bias Suit Against Bayer Widens
May 26 2011 // Bayer AG has been hit with a wider U.S. lawsuit, accusing Germany’s largest drugmaker of discriminating against women in pay, promotions and pregnancy leave and fostering a hostile work environment. As it did when...
SEC Approves Whistleblower Rule
May 26 2011 // Corporate whistleblowers could score multi-million-dollar payouts for reporting financial wrongdoing under a new program approved by U.S. securities regulators on Wednesday. A divided U.S. Securities and Exchange...
AIG Stock Dips After $8.7 Billion Share Sale by U.S. Treasury
May 25 2011 // of American International Group Inc. fell 3.6 percent Wednesday after the insurer and the U.S. Treasury sold $8.7 billion worth of AIG stock. The Treasury sold 200 million shares, reducing its stake in the company to 77...
Searchers, Dogs Scour Missouri Tornado Wreckage
May 25 2011 // First they found his dark blue teddy bear. Then frantic relatives searching for toddler Skyular Logsdon spotted his red T-shirt and pants, torn, rain-soaked and wrapped around a telephone pole. The little boy hasn’t...
2011 on Pace to Be Deadliest U.S. Tornado Year
May 25 2011 // The tornado that raked Joplin, Missouri, on Sunday was the deadliest single twister in the United States since 1953, putting 2011 on pace for a possible record year for tornado fatalities, U.S. weather experts said...
Treasury Sells AIG Shares at Slight Profit
May 25 2011 // The U.S. Treasury is barely breaking even on its investment in beleaguered insurance giant American International Group Inc., according to an early litmus test of market interest in the firm’s stock. The Treasury...
Insurers Moving Quickly in Response to Violent Midwest Weather
May 24 2011 // Auto, home and business insurers have launched a broad response to the recent tornadoes that caused severe loss of life and extensive property damage in Joplin, Mo., Reading, Kan., and Minneapolis, Minn., insurance...
P/C Insurers Facing Record Losses from Weather
May 24 2011 // Devastating tornadoes, floods, earthquakes overseas and a busier-than-usual hurricane season have U.S. insurance companies bracing for record losses in 2011. Insurers could suffer as much as $10 billion from...
