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U.S. May Join Lawsuit Claiming Insurers Defrauded Government Over Katrina Claims
Aug 8 2007 // The U.S. Department of Justice is weighing whether to intervene in a lawsuit that accuses insurance companies of overbilling the federal government for flood damage from Hurricane Katrina, a judge who unsealed the case on...
La. Independent Agents Group CEO Lauds Flood Limitation Rulings
Aug 8 2007 // The CEO of a major insurance agent trade group in Louisiana says two recent federal appeals court decisions affirming flood limitations in property policies will enhance the state’s recovery from Hurricane...
Parents, Toy Companies Stressed Over Major Toy Recall
Aug 8 2007 // Many American parents are facing a quandrary about what toys to buy their children following the recall by Mattel Inc. of almost 1 million Chinese-made toys because they may contain lead. As if fears over contaminated...
Federal Appeals Courts to Hear Key Mississippi Katrina Insurance Case
Aug 7 2007 // A federal appeals court is poised to review a judge’s verdict last year in the first trial among hundreds of lawsuits that Mississippi homeowners filed against insurance companies in Hurricane Katrina’s...
How to write energy risks in a volatile world
Aug 6 2007 // The world has experienced rapid and profound changes in recent years, and the energy industry has been no exception. Climate changes (including global warming), market fluctuations, ever-increasing business mergers and...
Directors & Officers Liability
Aug 6 2007 // For years, environmental issues, including issues arising from global warming, have hovered on the periphery of concerns affecting directors’ and officers’ liability exposure. But an April 2, 2007, decision by...
Despite firefighting prowess, the Russians aren’t coming
Aug 6 2007 // Global firefighter claims U.S. Forest Service stonewalls on Russian aid while U.S. wildfires burn While the Southeast’s largest wildfire in over a century was still smoldering in Georgia after burning 903 square...
Despite firefighting prowess, the Russians aren’t coming
Aug 6 2007 // While the Southeast’s largest wildfire in over a century was still smoldering in Georgia after burning 903 square miles, a fresh conflagration reared its ugly head in California and an American pilot from Virginia...
Despite firefighting prowess, the Russians aren’t coming
Aug 6 2007 // While the Southeast’s largest wildfire in over a century was still smoldering in Georgia after burning 903 square miles, a fresh conflagration reared its ugly head in California and an American pilot from Virginia...
Report: Inadequate Safety Controls Led to Fatal N.C. Plant Explosion
Aug 2 2007 // Inadequate safety controls for chemical reaction hazards led to an explosion at a North Carolina chemical plant that killed one worker and injured 14 others last year in Morganton, federal safety investigators said...
Feuer Named to New Post as CEO of Marsh U.S. Business
Aug 1 2007 // Marsh Inc. announced the appointment of Mark Feuer as chief executive officer of its U.S. business. In addition to his new responsibilities, Feuer will continue to lead Marsh’s U.S. Middle Market and Small Commercial...
Fleming to Head Business Development at Cunningham Lindsey U.S.
Jul 31 2007 // John Fleming has been appointed vice president and director of Business Development and Marketing for Dallas-based independent insurance claims services firm Cunningham Lindsey U.S. (CLUS), the company announced. Fleming,...
What is Future of Shrinking U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission?
Jul 30 2007 // The Consumer Product Safety Commission could soon shrink to the point where it can’t effectively protect the public, veteran Commissioner Thomas Moore says. Many employees at the agency responsible for overseeing the...
Ala. Outdoorsman Facing $1 Million Judgment Apparently Flees U.S.
Jul 30 2007 // Edmond H. “Eddie” Smith IV, a flamboyant Alabama outdoorsman who was fitted with an electronic monitoring device and faces an order to pay more than $1 million in an insurance fraud case, has fled and may be in...
Ala. Judge Appoints Prosecutors in Katrina Insurance Case
Jul 30 2007 // A federal judge appointed two veteran Birmingham, Ala., attorneys to prosecute a prominent Mississippi attorney and his law firm for criminal contempt in a Hurricane Katrina insurance dispute. In an order made public July...
Neb. Firm Recalls Beef, Buffalo Suspected to Have Dangerous E-Coli
Jul 27 2007 // A Hastings company is recalling about 5,900 pounds of ground beef and buffalo products distributed in Nebraska and Colorado because they could be contaminated with a dangerous strain of E. coli, the government said...
British Life Insurers Friends Provident and Resolution Agree on Merger
Jul 26 2007 // The board of Friends Provident PLC and Resolution PLC announced that they have agreed on terms to combine two of Britain’s largest life insurers through a stock swap. The new company, Friends Financial Group PLC,...
Industry Still Divided as House Federal Charter Measure Reintroduced
Jul 25 2007 // U.S. Reps. Melissa Bean, D-Ill., and Ed Royce, R-Calif., have reintroduced their National Insurance Act of 2007, the so-called optional federal charter bill that proposes letting insurance companies choose federal over...
How to make insuring tough product liability accounts easier
Jul 23 2007 // Skis, ladders, pacemakers and nutraceuticals may be different products at first glance, but all share challenges in finding coverage. According to Nan Meyer, product manager for Shand-Morahan, and David Rosenburg,...
Treasury chief Paulson vows review of U.S. financial services regulation
Jul 23 2007 // The Bush administration plans to review the U.S. government’s regulatory system for financial institutions with the goal of making changes to better reflect modern markets. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the...
