Argo Shareholders Not Alone in Wondering About CEO Corporate Jet Use December 2, 2019 By Tim McLaughlin As U.S. corporate jet use approaches pre-financial crisis levels and chief executives take an increasing number of personal trips on...
Corporations Grow Nervous as Compensation for Directors Rises November 12, 2019 By Tim McLaughlin It’s nice work if you can get it. The average annual compensation for non-executive directors at S&P 500 companies rose...
Activists Push Big Index Funds to Back Shareholder Votes on Climate Risk Disclosure October 9, 2019 By Ross Kerber and Tim McLaughlin The far-reaching impacts of climate change on companies have investors pressing corporate leaders for action to minimize environmental damage and...
Fidelity Wins Court Battle with IRS Over Coal Tax Credits August 15, 2019 By Tim McLaughlin Fidelity Investments on Wednesday won its court battle with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service over tax credits for the production...
How Insurance Broker A.J Gallagher Cleans Up on Clean Coal Subsidies: Reuters December 5, 2018 By Tim McLaughlin Earlier this year, the chief financial officer of global insurance giant Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. explained to analysts how...
Insurers Deploy Drone Fleets to Speed Harvey Disaster Recovery August 30, 2017 By Karl Plume and Tim McLaughlin Fleets of commercial drones are primed to hover over the destruction from Tropical Storm Harvey in an unprecedented test of...
Harvey’s Insured Losses Hurt Insurers’ Stocks, Could Boost Reinsurers’ Prices August 29, 2017 By Tim McLaughlin and Tom Sims Hurricane Harvey’s whipsaw of wind and rain across Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast hurt the shares of U.S. property...
Bill Protecting Drivers Who Hit Protesters Dies in North Dakota February 21, 2017 By Tim McLaughlin A controversial North Dakota bill that sought to shield motorists from liability if they unintentionally hit a protester on a...
New York Attorney General Concerned Trump May Gut Anti-Fraud Law November 18, 2016 By Suzanne Barlyn and Tim McLaughlin New York’s top law enforcement official said he does not want U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s administration to “eviscerate” the state’s...
Regulators Look to State Laws as Republicans Move to Change Dodd-Frank November 17, 2016 By Suzanne Barlyn and Tim McLaughlin State securities regulators said they may have to rely more heavily on local laws to police banks and finance companies...