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Obamacare Mitigates Costs for Big Employers, Refuting Lobbyists’ Predictions
Oct 16 2014 // Business groups said soon after Obamacare became law in 2010 that the sweeping healthcare overhaul would impose huge new costs on U.S. employers, leading to job losses. Three years later, with the Patient Protection and...
Second Healthcare Worker Tests Positive for Ebola at Texas Hospital
Oct 15 2014 // A second healthcare worker in Texas tested positive for Ebola after caring for a patient with the deadly viral illness, adding to concern that infection controls at U.S. hospitals aren’t strong enough. The worker at...
U.S. Eyes Sale of New York’s Waldorf Hotel to Chinese Insurer
Oct 15 2014 // Concerned about potential security risks, the U.S. government is taking a close look at last week’s sale of New York’s iconic Waldorf Astoria hotel to a Chinese insurance company. U.S. officials said Monday...
AIG’s Barone Joins Beazley’s Fidelity and Crime Insurance Unit
Oct 15 2014 // Beazley Plc hired Matt Barone from American International Group Inc., becoming the second insurer in a month to recruit from AIG to build groups that sell coverage protecting corporate clients against crimes. Barone joins...
CDC Steps Up Ebola Risk Management, Names Expert Team for Hospitals
Oct 15 2014 // A team of infection experts will be sent to any U.S. hospital with a confirmed Ebola case, according to the nation’s top disease control official, who said such a group could have prevented the infection of a Dallas...
Toyota Recalls 1.75 Million Vehicles Worldwide for Fuel, Brake Flaws
Oct 15 2014 // Toyota Motor Corp., the automaker under supervision in the U.S. by an independent safety monitor, recalled 1.75 million vehicles worldwide to fix flaws in the braking and fuel systems. The Lexus IS, GS and LS luxury sedans...
Texas Leads U.S. in Road Fatalities, Needs Transportation Funding
Oct 14 2014 // Gus Pando lost his mother last year in a crash at an intersection where a county road crossed four lanes of vehicles barreling by at 75 miles an hour. At the same Odessa, Texas, junction in August, a family friend was...
AIG Bailout Trial Shifts to Former AIG Executives, Other Regulators
Oct 14 2014 // The trial over the American International Group Inc. bailout shifts this week from the architects of the 2008 rescue, who spent days testifying as to why they imposed the terms they did on the ailing insurer, to the...
Trinity Industries Facing Another Liability Trial Over Guardrails
Oct 14 2014 // Trinity Industries Inc. is set to defend itself a second time at trial against $1 billion in claims that its highway guardrail systems lock up and puncture cars on impact — sometimes with fatal consequences. Joshua...
Fed’s Lacker Calls for U.S. to Let Failed Financial Firms Unwind
Oct 14 2014 // U.S. regulators need to complete a comprehensive bankruptcy program implementation to allow large financial institutions to unwind in the event they fail, rather than depend on government interventions, a top Fed official...
Global Banks Agree to Swap Contracts to Ease Too-Big-to-Fail
Oct 14 2014 // Eighteen global banks have agreed to swaps contract changes designed to work with government rules for unwinding failed firms, a step that may help end the view that some financial companies are “too big to...
Texas Healthcare Worker Tests Positive for Ebola
Oct 13 2014 // A Texas healthcare worker has tested positive for Ebola even though she wore full protective gear while caring for a hospitalized patient who later died from the virus, health officials said. If the preliminary diagnosis...
Stepped-Up Ebola Screening Starts at New York’s JFK Airport
Oct 13 2014 // Customs and health officials began taking the temperatures of passengers arriving at New York’s Kennedy International Airport from three West African countries on Saturday, Oct. 11, in a stepped-up screening effort...
Judge Dismisses Mississippi Death Claim Against Omega Protein
Oct 12 2014 // The mother of a 24-year-old Mississippi man who died in 2012 during a machinery incident at Omega Protein plant in Moss Point will appeal the dismissal of her wrongful death lawsuit against the company. The suit was filed...
Bernanke Denies Bailout Terms Were Meant to Punish AIG
Oct 12 2014 // Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said he wasn’t looking to punish American International Group Inc. for mismanagement when the board of governors authorized an emergency loan to the distressed insurer at...
Are States, Cities Equipped to Handle Ebola Emergencies?
Oct 12 2014 // The missteps in Dallas’s handling of the first Ebola case diagnosed in the United States have revealed an uncomfortable reality: state and city plans for handling the deadly virus are based on generic recommendations...
Judge Rules for Boeing in Wichita, Kansas, Whistleblower Lawsuit
Oct 10 2014 // Three former workers at the Boeing plant in Wichita, Kan., who filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the aircraft maker and one of its suppliers failed to show Boeing defrauded the U.S. government in a $1.6 billion...
Seattle, Boston Top Cities for Pedestrian Safety
Oct 9 2014 // Seattle, where a crowd of football fans celebrating a Super Bowl victory waited at a crosswalk for a signal change this year, is the safest U.S. city for pedestrians, according to a study by Liberty Mutual Holding Co. The...
P/C Insurers Rush to Meet Rising Demand for Cyber Insurance
Oct 9 2014 // Insurers flush with capital are rushing to grab part of an expanding cyber coverage market that’s been spurred on by high-profile hackings at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Home Depot Inc. Sales are set to double this...
Bernanke Defends AIG Bailout Terms; Judge Opens Fed’s ‘Doomsday Book’
Oct 9 2014 // Former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke defended the sterner treatment of American International Group Inc. in the 2008 bailout compared with how investment banks were handled, saying the rescue of the insurer had a...
