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How Autonomous Car Sales Will Accelerate in Next Two Decades
Jun 20 2016 // Global sales of autonomous vehicles will reach nearly 21 million vehicles by 2035, a substantial increase from previous estimates, according to a forecast from auto industry information firm IHS Automotive. Roughly 600,000...
Smart Choices, Luck Help U.S. P/C Insurers Stay Stable: S&P
Jun 20 2016 // Good news alert: the U.S. property/casualty insurance sector “has been dealt a good hand” and remains stable due to smart choices and a little bit of luck, Standard & Poor’s said in a new...
Blue Moon ‘Craft Beer’ Suit in California against MillerCoors Tossed
Jun 17 2016 // MillerCoors LLC won the dismissal of a proposed class action lawsuit by a self-described beer aficionado who said the brewing giant tricked consumers into paying premium prices for Blue Moon by falsely portraying it as...
California’s Commissioner is Asking U.S. to Stop Anthem-Cigna Deal
Jun 17 2016 // California’s insurance commissioner wants the U.S. Department of Justice to block health insurer Anthem Inc.’s acquisition of Cigna Corp, saying he is concerned it will raise premiums in the state. California...
Video-Sharing Site Vimeo Wins Appeal of Copyright Infringement Claim
Jun 17 2016 // Video-sharing website Vimeo LLC cannot be held liable for copyright infringement for unknowingly hosting older music uploaded by its users, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday, dealing a blow to record labels seeking...
Viewpoint: Fiduciary Rule Fight Isn’t About the ‘Little Guy’
Jun 17 2016 // The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants you to believe it is looking out for the little guy in its fight against new government regulation of the retirement investment advice industry. But that is a facade – as one...
Judge Skeptical of Widow’s Claim Twitter Aided Terrorist Group ISIS
Jun 16 2016 // A federal judge said he’ll probably dismiss a lawsuit against Twitter Inc. by the widow of a man killed at a police training center in Jordan that accused the social network of knowingly allowing the Islamic State to...
AIG CEO Hancock Finds Common Ground, Transparency with Activist Directors
Jun 16 2016 // Activist investors Carl Icahn and John Paulson are making American International Group (AIG) more transparent through their representation on its board, the U.S. insurer’s president and chief executive Peter Hancock...
Citigroup Sues AT&T, Says It Owns Trademark to ‘Thank You’
Jun 16 2016 // Citigroup Inc. sued AT&T Inc. on Friday, saying the phone company’s use of “thanks” and “AT&T thanks” in a new customer loyalty program infringed its trademark rights to the phrase...
Pro Global Files Company Application Under R.I.’s New Run-Off Reg
Jun 15 2016 // Pro Global Insurance Solutions plc announced that it has become the first company to file an application for a new domestic insurer in Rhode Island to facilitate insurance business transfers (IBT) under the August 2015...
New .Insurance Domain Names Become Available Today
Jun 14 2016 // The internet domain extension reserved for the global insurance industry— .insurance — will become available starting today, June 14, at 8 p.m. ET. The new extension means an independent agency at...
Supreme Court Makes Room for Triple Damages for Intentional Patent Infringement
Jun 14 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court eased the way for larger damage awards when a company intentionally copies a patented invention. Voting unanimously, the justices said a key federal appeals court had placed overly rigid limits on...
XL Catlin Names Chubb’s Oh as President of E&S Business in U.S.
Jun 13 2016 // XL Catlin has appointed Stephen S. Oh to lead its Excess & Surplus (E&S) business. As president of XL Catlin’s multi-line E&S operation in the U.S., he will direct regional underwriting operations,...
Judge Questions FedEx Liability for Illegal Drug Shipments
Jun 13 2016 // Proving to jurors that FedEx Corp. is a criminal because it delivered illegal prescriptions from Internet drug stores was never going to be easy. Convincing a federal judge who questioned the “novel...
Why June Storms Are No Harbinger of What’s to Come
Jun 10 2016 // A week into June and two tropical storms have drenched the U.S. South. Perhaps it would be a good time to stock up on duct tape, plywood and sandbags. Unfortunately, using the first few weeks to predict the rest of the...
U.S. Olympian Says Gold Medal Stolen From Car in Atlanta
Jun 10 2016 // An American Olympian is searching for his 1992 gold medal after he says it was stolen by thieves who broke into his car in Atlanta. Joe Jacobi won a gold medal for the U.S. in the two-man canoe slalom event in Barcelona,...
Pandemics and Climate Change Present Opportunity for Insurers
Jun 9 2016 // The shoe may eventually be placed on the other foot for the U.S. This nation has a long-standing tradition of innovating products and ideas – particularly insurance products – and then exporting them to other...
U.S. Wants Safety ‘Two Times Better’ for Autonomous Cars
Jun 9 2016 // Self-driving cars must increase safety at least twofold to make a real dent in the 38,000 lives lost on American roads last year, the U.S. auto-safety chief said as the federal government prepares to release rules for...
Here’s How Autonomous Car Sales Will Accelerate in Next Two Decades
Jun 9 2016 // Global sales of autonomous vehicles will reach nearly 21 million vehicles by 2035, a substantial increase from previous estimates, according to a forecast from the automobile industry information firm IHS Automotive. By...
U.S. Treasury Unit Reviews Fosun’s Acquisition of Ironshore
Jun 8 2016 // U.S. authorities are conducting a review of China’s Fosun Group’s acquisition in November 2015 of Bermuda-based insurer Ironshore. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), part of the...
