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Court Narrows Federal Law on Computer Fraud
Apr 10 2012 // A U.S. appeals court rejected the government’s broad reading of a computer fraud law to prosecute workers who steal from company computers, saying it could expose millions of Americans to prosecution for harmless...
Reebok, Nike Settle Suit Over Tebow Apparel Sales
Apr 10 2012 // Reebok International Ltd. agreed to settle a lawsuit by rival Nike Inc. and will stop selling New York Jets football apparel with the name of the team’s popular new quarterback, Tim Tebow. According to settlement...
MF Global Executives Win Access to Insurance Monies for Defense
Apr 10 2012 // Former MF Global Holdings Ltd. Chief Executive Jon Corzine and other company officials won court permission to tap as much as $30 million of insurance money to defend lawsuits over the futures brokerage’s...
Property Insurance Rates Continue to Firm: Marsh
Apr 10 2012 // Global property insurance rates continued to firm in the first quarter of 2012 and there are forces at play that will likely continue the trend, according to a report from insurance broker Marsh. Despite the absence of...
Wells Fargo Upgrades AIG on Likely Exit from Government Bailout
Apr 10 2012 // American International Group Inc. will likely be independent from the U.S. government over the next year, Wells Fargo Securities said upgrading the shares of the bailed-out insurer to “outperform.” Since AIG...
Former Warranty Insurance Firm Co-Owner Pleads Guilty in Missouri
Apr 9 2012 // A former co-owner of one of the country’s top marketers of auto service contracts has pleaded guilty in Missouri to theft and fraud. Darain Atkinson founded St. Charles-based US Fidelis with his brother, Cory...
March’s Severe Weather Proved Deadly, Costly in U.S., Globally
Apr 6 2012 // March was a deadly and costly month in parts of the United States. A significant severe weather outbreak affected parts of the U.S. Midwest, the Tennessee Valley and the Southeast during the first week of March, killing at...
Swiss Re Structures $240 million Insurance-linked Securities for Allianz
Apr 6 2012 // Swiss Re Capital Markets announced that it has “structured and successfully placed $240 million of insurance-linked securities [cat bonds] issued by Blue Danube Ltd., on behalf of a subsidiary of Allianz SE. The...
U.S., Europe Urged to Offer Product Safety Training to Importers
Apr 6 2012 // Food and drug regulators in the U.S., Europe and other developed countries should offer training, technology and expertise to developing nations in Asia, Latin America and other regions to better assure the safety of...
Aon Benfield March Cat Recap: Severe U.S. Weather, Quakes & Floods
Apr 6 2012 // Aon Benfield, the global reinsurance intermediary and capital advisor of Aon Corp, has released the latest edition of its Global Catastrophe Recap report, which reviews the natural disaster perils that occurred worldwide...
Viacom Wins Reversal in Landmark Copyright Case vs. Google’s YouTube
Apr 5 2012 // A U.S. appeals court has revived lawsuits by Viacom Inc., the English Premier League, and various film studios and television networks accusing Google Inc. of allowing copyrighted videos on its YouTube service without...
U.S. Summer Forecast: El Nino Adverse Weather May Return
Apr 5 2012 // The U.S. Climate Prediction Center raised the prospect that El Nino conditions could return after the Northern Hemisphere summer, causing adverse weather that could potentially disrupt the harvest of vital crops such as...
Best Announces Rating Actions on NZ’s ‘Old’ & ‘New’ AMI Insurance
Apr 5 2012 // A.M. Best Co. announced rating actions on both New Zealand’s AMI Insurance Limited, or the old AMI, and AMI Insurance (Operations) Limited, or the new AMI, following a substantial restructuring of the company in the...
Large Insurers Anxious As Financial Council Finalizes Systemic Risk Rule
Apr 4 2012 // The U.S. financial risk council approved a final rule on Tuesday laying out how it will decide which financial companies outside the banking industry will face new scrutiny by the Federal Reserve in hopes of preventing a...
Starr’s Greenberg: China ‘Eager to Begin Talks’ on Free Trade Pact with U.S.
Apr 4 2012 // China is eager to begin talks on a free trade pact with the United States and key leaders seem willing to step away from the state capitalism Beijing has been pursuing, a senior U.S executive with access to China’s...
Chevron, Transocean Face New Multi-billion Brazil Lawsuit; ‘Outrageous’ Say Companies
Apr 4 2012 // A Brazilian federal prosecutor on Tuesday launched his second 20 billion real ($10.9 billion) lawsuit against U.S. oil company Chevron and driller Transocean, doubling the stakes against the companies as critics call him...
Melting Arctic May Redraw Global Geopolitical Map
Apr 3 2012 // This year’s frenzy of oil and gas exploration in newly accessible Arctic waters could be the harbinger of even starker changes to come. If, as many scientists predict, currently inaccessible sea lanes across the top...
Football Turns to Helmet Technology to Tackle Head Injuries
Apr 3 2012 // As Americans grow more aware of the risk of brain injury tied to football – the country’s most popular sport – players and coaches are experimenting with the latest technology in a bid to make the game...
Inspections Improving Mine Safety, Says U.S. Official
Apr 3 2012 // Aggressive inspections at troubled mines are helping create safer working environments for coal miners, the head of the federal government’s mine safety agency said during a visit to Kentucky. U.S. Mine Safety and...
Mass. Senate Candidate Warren Continues to Condemn AIG’s Tax Break
Apr 2 2012 // U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts continues to criticize the government for granting American International Group billions of dollars worth of tax breaks, calling it “a stealth...
