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NHC: Tropical Storm Sally Strengthens to Hurricane
Sep 14 2020 // Louisiana and Mississippi residents were under evacuation orders on Monday as former Tropical Storm Sally strengthened to a hurricane status and churned across the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. National Hurricane Center...
Why the Coronavirus Recession Is Not Like the Last Recession
Sep 14 2020 // Judith Ramirez received a letter this month that she’d been dreading: The Honolulu hotel that furloughed her from a housekeeping job in March, during the lockdown triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, made her...
Lloyd’s Names AIG/Blackboard’s Schoberth to New U.S. Market Development Position
Sep 14 2020 // Lloyd’s of London has appointed Uwe Schoberth as U.S. market development director, a new role focused on expanding its strategic relationships with retail, wholesale and reinsurance brokers in its largest market. In...
Tropical Storm Sally Strengthens; Louisiana Braces for Another Hurricane
Sep 13 2020 // 09/13/2020 06:09 PM— Tropical Storm Sally strengthened off the west coast of Florida on Sunday and was poised to become a category 2 hurricane, bringing the threat of dangerous storm surges and high winds to the U.S....
Facebook Going to Court in Ireland to Salvage Its EU to U.S. Data Transfer Practices
Sep 11 2020 // Facebook Inc. launched legal action on Friday against Ireland’s Data Protection Commission in an attempt to halt a proposed order that could stop the company from transferring data from the European Union to the...
Inside Big Pharma’s Stealth War on Drug Price Watchdog: Reuters Special Report
Sep 11 2020 // As evidence grew this spring that the drug remdesivir was helping COVID-19 patients, some Wall Street investors bet on analysts’ estimates that its maker, Gilead Sciences Inc., could charge up to $10,000 for the...
OSHA Cites Smithfield Foods For Lax Coronavirus Safety for Meat Plant Workers
Sep 11 2020 // The U.S. Labor Department said on Thursday it cited Smithfield Foods for failing to protect employees from the coronavirus, making it the first major U.S. meatpacker to face a fine after outbreaks at slaughterhouses...
Report Urges Urgent Action from Financial Regulators to Address Climate Change
Sep 10 2020 // Yet another report in a long line of reports is out urging urgent action from financial regulators, including insurance regulators, the Federal Reserve and the Securities Exchange Commission. The report was commissioned by...
Ohio State University Sued for Age Discrimination
Sep 10 2020 // Federal officials have sued Ohio State University (OSU) for alleged age discrimination after the university fired a human resources generalist in the College of Education and Human Ecology (CEHE) because of his age. In its...
Explained: How California’s Wildfires Could Spark a Financial Crisis
Sep 10 2020 // Wildfires across the U.S. West are among the sparks from climate change that could ignite a U.S. financial crisis by damaging home values, state tourism and local government budgets, an advisory panel to a U.S. markets...
China Counters U.S. ‘Clean Network’ With Own Global Data Security Initiative
Sep 10 2020 // China has launched an initiative to address global data security issues, a countermove to the U.S. “clean network” program that is aimed at discouraging other countries from using Chinese technology. Foreign...
More Questions Raised Following EU Ruling on U.S. Data Transfer Privacy Shield
Sep 10 2020 // The key mechanism used by Facebook to transfer data from the European Union to the United States “cannot in practice be used” for such transfers, according to Ireland’s Data Protection Commission,...
Michigan Healthcare System to Pay $104.7K to Settle Wage Discrimination Lawsuit
Sep 9 2020 // A non-profit health care system based in Saginaw, Mich., will pay $104,707 and provide other relief to settle a federal gender wage discrimination lawsuit. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in...
Buffett’s Duracell Countersues Energizer, Alleging False Ads Over Battery Life Claims
Sep 9 2020 // Duracell, the battery unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., sued the maker of Energizer batteries on Tuesday, accusing it falsely advertising that its Energizer MAX batteries last up to 50% longer than...
Social Inflation, Low Interest Rates, Rising Catastrophes: Recipe for a Hard Market
Sep 9 2020 // Even before the coronavirus crisis hit, the re/insurance industry was in a period of significant rate hardening, which will likely continue over the next two years, or even longer, according to Munich Re. Such price...
Trump Labor Rule That Narrows ‘Joint Employer’ Standard Struck Down by Judge
Sep 9 2020 // A federal judge on Tuesday struck down a Trump administration rule that narrowed the definition of “joint employer,” and which the attorneys general of 17 states and Washington, D.C. said would eliminate...
Reuters Report: How COVID-19 Swept Brazilian Slaughterhouses of Top Meatpacker
Sep 9 2020 // JBS SA, the world’s largest meatpacker, has vowed to keep the world fed during the coronavirus pandemic. Executives say the company has added more than 15,000 new workers in Brazil this year to crank out cuts of...
Simply Business, AXIS Launch Coverage for Home-Based Small Businesses
Sep 9 2020 // Simply Business, Inc., a digital insurance agency offering small business insurance policies on behalf of a panel of carriers, will work with AXIS Insurance on a new product intended for U.S. small business owners who...
U.S. Commercial Insurance Prices Rose Almost 10% in Q2: WTW
Sep 8 2020 // U.S. commercial property/casualty insurance prices rose during the second quarter of 2020 by almost 10% compared with prices charged during the same quarter of 2019. Excess/umbrella and directors’ and officers’...
U.S. Safety Agency Investigating Boeing 787 Dreamliners for Flaws
Sep 8 2020 // The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said Sunday it is investigating manufacturing flaws involving some Boeing 787 Dreamliners but said it was too early to say if it will require new inspections. Boeing said in August...
