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Growing Number of Municipal Suits Over Opioids Face Uphill Battle
Jun 19 2017 // A growing number of U.S. states, counties and cities are filing lawsuits accusing drug companies of deceptively marketing opioid painkillers to downplay their addictiveness. But some lawyers say the industry’s highly...
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Jun 19 2017 // Insurance Agents & Brokers (IA&B), a Mechanicsburg, Penn.-based professional trade association, will have a new president and CEO at the helm beginning in January 2018. Deputy CEO and Counsel Jason Ernest will take...
Takata Bankruptcy Filing Could Happen Next Week in Japan
Jun 16 2017 // Takata Corp. plans to file for bankruptcy as soon as next week, paving the way for a sale of the 84-year-old Japanese air-bag maker behind the biggest safety recall in automotive history. The supplier is expected to seek...
Arkansas’ G4S Youth Services Hit with Pay Discrimination Lawsuit
Jun 15 2017 // G4S Youth Services, a former manager of programs and services at a juvenile correction and detention facility in Alexander, Ark., violated federal law by paying a female facility investigator less than it paid the male...
Anbang Says New York’s Waldorf Astoria Condo Conversion Proceeding Normally
Jun 15 2017 // The conversion of New York’s landmark Waldorf Astoria hotel into luxury condominiums is moving forward as planned and no delays are anticipated after the property’s owner, China’s Anbang Insurance Group...
Insurers Adapt Terrorism Policies with Loss of Attraction, Violent Acts, Other Coverages
Jun 15 2017 // The changing nature of attacks in Western cities has led insurers to offer new policies, from straightforward cover for business lost due to police cordons to more risky compensation for declines in tourism. Terrorism...
Hamptons Tainted Water Lawsuit Adds to Roster of 3M Complaints
Jun 14 2017 // A stone’s throw from the white sand beaches and posh mansions of one of America’s wealthiest ZIP codes sits a community that homeowners say has been poisoned by polluted drinking water. Fifteen people in a...
Senators in Drive to Remove Regulatory Roadblocks for Driverless Cars
Jun 14 2017 // A bipartisan trio of U.S. senators said on Tuesday they planned to introduce legislation to remove regulatory roadblocks to the introduction of self-driving cars, including sorting out conflicts between state and federal...
220,000 Dutch, English Consumers Sue VW Over Diesel Fraud
Jun 14 2017 // Around 220,000 car drivers in the Netherlands, England and Wales joined forces on Tuesday in what could become a pan-European lawsuit against German carmaker Volkswagen seeking compensation over its...
States Study Tobacco Lawsuit Tactics for Fight Over Opioid Costs
Jun 14 2017 // State and local leaders fighting a worsening opioid abuse epidemic are studying tactics used in the tobacco lawsuits of the 1990s, as they try to claw back billions from the companies who make and sell the powerful...
Anbang Insurance’s $30 Billion in Acquisitions Draw Scrutiny to Its Finances
Jun 14 2017 // Founded as a provincial auto insurer, Anbang Insurance burst from obscurity with a $2 billion bid for New York’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in 2014, casting the company and its ambitious chairman as flagbearers for a new...
Chairman Wu of China’s Anbang Insurance ‘Unable to Fulfill Duties’
Jun 14 2017 // Anbang Insurance Group, one of China’s most aggressive buyers of overseas assets, said on Wednesday its chairman was temporarily unable to fulfill his duties, just over a week after denying reports he had been barred...
Crum & Forster Pet Insurance Group Launches Companion Horse Insurance
Jun 13 2017 // Crum & Forster Pet Insurance Group has launched a new product for the equine industry that provides veterinary care insurance for companion horses – typically only available for race or performance horses. Policies...
Utilities Warned of ‘Easy-to-Use’ Malware Aimed at Causing Outages
Jun 13 2017 // Two cyber security firms have uncovered malicious software that they believe caused a December 2016 Ukraine power outage, they said on Monday, warning the malware could be easily modified to harm critical infrastructure...
Most Car Makers in No Rush to Make Automatic Braking Standard Equipment
Jun 12 2017 // Big automakers are rushing to launch self-driving cars as early as 2021, but the industry’s major players are moving slowly when it comes to widespread deployment of a less expensive crash prevention technology that...
U.S. Storms in May to Cost Insurers $3B; Economic Costs Total $4B: Aon Report
Jun 9 2017 // Total aggregated economic losses from severe weather in the U.S. during May was set to exceed US$4.0 billion, while public and private insurers face a combined payout approaching an estimated US$3.0 billion, according to...
RMS Releases Updated N. America Earthquake Models for U.S., Canada & Mexico
Jun 9 2017 // RMS, the Newark, Calif.-based risk modeling and analytics firm, announced the release of version 17.0 of its North America Earthquake Models for the United States, Canada and Mexico. The updated model will enable RMS...
Active Atlantic Hurricane Season Looms – as Odds Drop of El Niño Formation
Jun 9 2017 // Forecasters again lowered the odds of El Niño forming by year’s end, a scenario that may mean more Atlantic hurricanes at a time when federal agencies charged with predicting and responding to natural disasters lack...
Climate Change Advocates Galvanized by Trump Decision
Jun 8 2017 // You’d think climate change activists now living under a new reality created by a U.S. president making good on his promise to withdraw the nation from the Paris accord on global warming would feel at least a bit...
Trump Labor Department Nixes Obama’s ‘Joint Employer’ Standard
Jun 8 2017 // The U.S. Labor Department on Wednesday said it was rescinding the Obama administration’s standard for determining when companies are “joint employers” of contract and franchise workers, in the...
