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Half of U.S. Businesses Report Being Hacked
Sep 29 2017 // More than half of U.S. businesses (53 percent) have experienced a cyber attack in the past year, according to a survey of business executives. The nationwide survey, released by The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and...
Study Says Climate Change Could Lead to Rougher Roads
Sep 28 2017 // Expect some rough roads ahead. Literally, if a new study is any indication of how U.S. roads as they are currently being built might fare in a warmer world. A study by professors at Arizona State University shows that...
Key Committee Senators Reach Deal on Autonomous Vehicle Bill
Sep 28 2017 // Two U.S. senators said late on Wednesday that they had reached a bipartisan deal on legislation aimed at easing hurdles to getting self-driving cars to drivers. U.S. Senator John Thune, a Republican who chairs the Commerce...
PERILS Raises Insured Loss Estimate for Cyclone Debbie to A$1.7B (US$1.34B)
Sep 28 2017 // The property insurance market’s loss for tropical cyclone Debbie has risen to A$1.7 billion (US$1.34 billion), according to PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization that provides industry-wide catastrophe...
Syngenta Settles With U.S. Farmers in China Corn Trade Case
Sep 28 2017 // Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta said it has agreed to settle tens of thousands of U.S. lawsuits by farmers over the company’s rollout of a genetically engineered corn seed variety before China approved it for...
Workers’ Compensation Insurers Report Slow Growth: A.M. Best
Sep 27 2017 // The workers’ compensation industry reported a record high $58.5 billion in direct premiums written in 2016 but year-after-year growth slowed for the first time in five years. According to an A.M. Best report, the...
Trump Administration Argues U.S. Civil Rights Law Does Not Protect Gay Employees
Sep 27 2017 // The U.S. law that has protected workers from gender and racial bias for more than half a century should not be extended to cover gay and lesbian employees because that isn’t what Congress envisioned when it passed...
U.S. Balks at China Cybersecurity Law, Fears It Will Hurt Global Trade
Sep 27 2017 // The United States has asked China not to implement its new cyber security law and is concerned it could damage global trade in services, a U.S. document published by the World Trade Organization showed on Tuesday. China...
Ironshore’s New Iron-Excess MGA Is Based on Iron-Starr Excess Agency Model
Sep 26 2017 // Using a Bermuda joint venture between Ironshore and C.V. Starr & Co. as a model, Ironshore announced the launch of Iron-Excess on Monday. Ironshore, a Liberty Mutual company, describes Iron-Excess as an expansion of...
SEC Hackers Took Advantage of Firms Using Authentic Data for Testing: Reuters Exclusive
Sep 26 2017 // Hackers breached the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s computer system last year by taking advantage of companies that used authentic financial data when they were testing the agency’s corporate filing...
Insured Losses in Caribbean from Hurricane Maria Estimated at $40B-$85B: AIR
Sep 26 2017 // Industry insured losses for Hurricane Maria in the Caribbean will be between US$40 billion and US$85 billion, according to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide. Puerto Rico alone accounts for more than 85 percent of the...
Trump Regulation Approach Likely to Stall Connected Vehicles
Sep 26 2017 // The technology that gives cars superpowers to see around corners and through walls won’t be on the first self-driving rides hitting the road in the next few years. Vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems, known as...
As Puerto Rico Struggles to Recover from Maria, Burst Dam Brings More Suffering
Sep 25 2017 // In San Juan, it was as if Hurricane Maria left everyone to fend for themselves. Two days after Maria hit, electricity and mobile phone service was nonexistent in the capital and across most of Puerto Rico, which was...
Two of the Oldest Statewide Insurance Trade Groups in U.S. Launch New Brands
Sep 25 2017 // The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New Jersey (IIABNJ) and The Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New York (IIABNY) launched new brands today for their respective associations. IIABNJ became Big I...
RMS Names Dailey to Lead U.S. Inland Flood Model in California
Sep 25 2017 // RMS has named Pete Dailey vice president to lead flood model development in its California headquarters. Dailey will oversee the upcoming release of the RMS U.S. Inland Flood Mode, and he will lead the development of...
AIG Restructures Again; Commercial Lines CEO Schimek to Leave
Sep 25 2017 // American International Group is reorganizing its underwriting businesses into three main segments—General Insurance, Life & Retirement, and a standalone technology-enabled platform—the company announced today. The...
Legal Experts See Room for Deal in Equifax Data Breach Lawsuits
Sep 25 2017 // Equifax Inc. could get away with paying a mere $1 per person after failing to protect almost half of America’s credit data. While the 118-year-old credit-reporting firm has been hit with more than 100 consumer...
EPA Won’t Say Which Texas Sites Toxic Waste Has Been Removed From After Harvey
Sep 24 2017 // The Environmental Protection Agency says it has recovered 517 containers of “unidentified, potentially hazardous material” from highly contaminated toxic waste sites in Texas that flooded last month during...
Storm Watch Issued for North Carolina as Puerto Rico, Markets Weigh Maria’s Economic Costs
Sep 24 2017 // Storm watches have been issued for North Carolina as the U.S. is threatened by a hurricane for the fourth time in a month. Tropical storm watches, meaning winds of at least 39 miles (63 kilometers) per hour could reach the...
How Home Values Track with High, Low Risk of Natural Hazards: ATTOM Data
Sep 22 2017 // Americans are still buying homes in areas with high risk of natural hazards and the homes in those cities continue to appreciate in value far faster than homes in low natural hazard locales. However, the effect on home...
