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Federal Appeals Court Rules Florida Doctors Can Ask Patients About Guns
Feb 23 2017 // A federal appeals court has ruled that Florida doctors can talk to patients about gun safety, declaring a law aimed at restricting such discussions a violation of the First Amendment’s right to free speech. The 11th...
US-Reports and Canadian Reports Merger Creates Colorado Risk Solutions Firm
Feb 22 2017 // H.W. Kaufman Financial Group has combined US-Reports and Canadian Reports, rebranding both companies under the name Afirm, which is based in Fort Collins, Colo. The merger will continue their global presence and allow a...
U.S. Keeps on Motoring, Sets Record of 3.2 Trillion Miles in 2016
Feb 22 2017 // Motorists drove a record 3.22 trillion miles (5.2 trillion km) on U.S. roads last year, a 2.8 percent rise from 2015 and the fifth consecutive year of year-over-year increases, according to the U.S. Department of...
Insured Losses from New South Wales’ Bushfires & Hailstorms Pass US$53.7M
Feb 22 2017 // Combined losses from the two New South Wales catastrophes of bushfires and hailstorms, have passed A$70 million (US$53.7 million), according to the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA). As of Feb. 20, insured losses for...
10 U.S.-Designated Autonomous Vehicle Testing Sites
Feb 21 2017 // The U.S. Department of Transportation recently designated 10 “proving grounds” to encourage safe testing of automated vehicle technologies. “The designated proving grounds will collectively form a...
Sirius XM Wins Dismissal of Turtles Copyright Lawsuit in New York
Feb 21 2017 // Sirius XM Holdings Inc. on Thursday won the dismissal of a New York copyright lawsuit over the satellite radio company’s playing of older songs by the 1960s band The Turtles and other artists, reducing the size of a...
Snoozing While Cruising Argues for Full Autonomy in Vehicles
Feb 21 2017 // As Ford Motor Co. has been developing self-driving cars, the U.S. automaker has started noticing a problem during test drives: Engineers monitoring the robot rides are dozing off. Company researchers have tried to roust...
17 Million U.S. Homes Worth $4.9 Trillion Are in Environmental Hazard Zones
Feb 20 2017 // Millions of homes and condominiums across the country are in high danger zones for environmental hazards. According to the Environmental Hazards Housing Risk Index, produced by ATTOM Data Solutions, 17.3 million single...
People
Feb 20 2017 // U.S. Risk, a global property/casualty wholesaler and managing general agency based in Dallas, named Wayne H. Carter III as president of U.S. Risk Underwriters Inc., its programs group. Carter assumes senior level...
U.S. Estimates Hurricane Matthew Damage to Recreational Boats at $110M
Feb 20 2017 // Hurricane Matthew, which threatened four coastal states as it corkscrewed through the Atlantic in early October, caused an estimated $110 million in damage to recreational boats, according to Boat Owners Association of The...
Business Moves
Feb 20 2017 // Markel, SureTec Markel Corp. has agreed to acquire surety firm SureTec for approximately $250 million, inclusive of a three-year earn out. SureTec is one of the largest privately owned surety companies in the U.S....
Wisconsin Farmer Sentenced for Federal Crop Insurance Fraud
Feb 17 2017 // John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Mark E. Johnson, 50, a farmer in Dresser, Wis., was sentenced on Feb. 13, 2017, in a federal crop insurance fraud case. During...
Global Insurance Rate Decreases in Q4 Slowed for 4th Consecutive Quarter: Marsh
Feb 17 2017 // Global insurance rate decreases moderated on average for the fourth consecutive quarter, down 3.1 percent (compared to the previous quarter’s decrease of 3.2 percent), according to Marsh’s Global Insurance...
What Happens if Trump Pulls U.S. Out of Paris Agreement?
Feb 16 2017 // Dam climate change. An opinion piece in the New York Times is offering a tie-in between global warming and the potential disaster unfolding at the Oroville Dam in Northern California. “After five years of...
Anthem Not Giving Up on Merger with Cigna Even If Cigna Is
Feb 15 2017 // Anthem Inc. on Wednesday won a temporary restraining order that blocks smaller rival Cigna Corp. from officially terminating their proposed $54 billion merger, a transaction already rejected by U.S. antitrust...
Lance Armstrong Loses Bid to Stop $100M Federal lawsuit
Feb 15 2017 // A federal judge has refused to block the government’s $100 million lawsuit against Lance Armstrong, putting the former cyclist on course for trial in a 2010 case stemming from his performance-enhancing drug use. The...
AIG’s Losing Streak Continued in Q4
Feb 15 2017 // American International Group Inc. posted its fourth loss in six quarters, burned again by higher-than-expected claims costs as Chief Executive Officer Peter Hancock struggles to sustain profitability. The net loss widened...
Federal Reserve Chair Yellen Defends Role in International Regulation
Feb 15 2017 // Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, in response to a warning from a U.S. congressman to halt global regulatory talks in the early stages of Donald Trump’s presidency, said in a letter the Fed has the authority and...
Insurer & Investor Group Urges G20 to Scrap Fossil Fuel Subsidies by 2020
Feb 15 2017 // Investors and insurers with more than $2.8 trillion in assets under management on Wednesday called on the Group of 20 economies to phase out fossil fuel subsidies by 2020 despite U.S. doubts about climate change. G20...
NSW Bushfires to Cost Insurers at Least US$15.3M: Insurance Council
Feb 14 2017 // The Insurance Council of Australia (ICA) has declared an insurance catastrophe for bushfires that have destroyed homes, stock and other assets across New South Wales, providing an initial insured loss estimate of at least...
