National News for June 2014
- K&K Insurance Launches Resort Program
- Supreme Court OKs Private Firms’ Religious Exemption from Birth Control Mandate
- AIG Ex-CEO Greenberg Loses Supreme Court Appeal in Suit Against Bailout
- Google Loses Appeal to Supreme Court Over Email Privacy Lawsuits
- June Closes with Severe Storms; Tropical Storm Could Skirt East Coast July 4th
- BP Wants Business to Repay ‘Windfall’ Oil Spill Claim Overayments
- Ratings Recap: Berkshire Hathaway Homestate, Rural Community, Imperial Fire
- The Right Climate for Tree Huggers, Hippies and iPads
- Uber, Lyft, Sidecar Toe-to-Toe With Insurers State-by-State
- AIG Responds to Supreme Court ‘Fraud on the Market’ Ruling with D&O Endorsement
- Why So Many Forecasts Are Useless: Ritholtz
- Small Businesses Lobby for Export-Import Bank
- More Drivers ‘Under the Influence’ Testing Positive for Multiple Drugs
- The Political Battle Over Export-Import Bank
- Another Climate Report Outlines Business Risks, Insurance Pitfalls
- As America Overall Ages with Boomers, Energy States See Youth Boom
- Philadelphia Launches Commercial Excess Flood Coverage
- ICW Group Offering Workers’ Comp Insurance in Georgia, Indiana, New Jersey
- Insurance Underwriter, Broker Merger Activity Up 20%: SNL
- Top 10 Metro Areas for Car Thefts
- GM CEO Barra: More Recalls Possible
- New York AG Sues Barclays Over Alleged ‘Dark Pool’ Fraud
- NFL Agrees to Remove Cap on Players’ Concussions Payments
- Judge Allows Trial in Greenberg Defamation Claim Against Spitzer
- Ironshore Increases Stake in Lexon Surety
- Extended Deadline to Enter for Insurance Journal Top 100
- Schinnerer Adds Private Company Management Liability Program
- U.S. Insurance Regulators May Refuse to Apply Global Capital Rules: NAIC President-Elect Lindeen
- Average Lightning Claim Hits $5,869
- Insurers Could Face Suits Over Fannie-Freddie Insurance Prices
- Holding Government Legally Liable for Failing to Act
- Zurich Introduces Property Coverage for Cloud-Dependent Companies
- Catalina to Assume NationsBuilders’ Residential Liabilities, Claims Facility
- Senior Drivers Open to Discussion About Limiting Driving: Survey
- FAA Drone Regulations Bar Hobbyists Near Airports, Crowds
- Latest Carlyle Financial, Insurance Equity Fund Raises $1 Billion
- Treasury Chief Lew Backs Financial Regulators and Risk Designations
- Validus to Buy Western World Insurance for $690M
- OneBeacon’s Sale of Runoff Business to Armour Still in Progress
- Willis’ Longmore Joins Marsh’s FINPRO
- Supreme Court Sides with Halliburton in Securities Class Action Certification Case
- National Parks Service Temporarily Bans Drones Over Its Lands, Waters
- Allstate Estimates $440M Catastrophe Losses for May
- Administration Shores Up Management of HealthCare.Gov
- Marsh Buying Stake in Alexander Forbes of South Africa
- AssureStart Expands Online Small Business Insurance Sales to Three More States
- House Committee Approves TRIA Renewal Bill with NARAB Amendment
- ANV Opens Cyber/Media MGU for U.S. Small Business with James River
- Report: Home Loan Banks Place Moratorium on Captive Insurers Used by REITs
- What Is GM’s Plan to Compensate Ignition-Switch Victims?
- Hamilton Insurance, Eyeing Acquisitions, Adds GCP Capital’s Deutsch
- Insurance Noodle Launches Integrated Small Contractors Facility
- Supreme Court Refines Software Patent Eligibility in Alice Case
- Model Promises to Help Growers Mitigate Costly Droughts
- Firing Fear Among New Predictors of Workers’ Comp Outcomes: WCRI
- Senate Committee to Take Up Cyber Liability Bill Next Week
- Aspen Opens Miami Hub for Expansion in Latin America
- Climate Change Bottom-Line Talk Grows, S&P Director Says
- Liberty Mutual Adds Data Compromise Coverage to Insurance Agent E&O Program
- XL Group Creates Cyber Risk Unit, Promotes Coletti as Head
- Congress Looking to Modernize Recorded Music Copyright Laws
- Ironshore Files for $100M IPO
- Best Affirms Gen Re and Subs Ratings; Outlook Stable
- Agents React to Walmart, Overstock in Insurance: ‘We Aren’t Dead or Dying, We are Evolving’
- Fireman’s Fund Names Travelers’ Grote to Commercial Field Executive Post
- K&K Launches New Program for Bowling Centers
- House Panel Unveils TRIA Extension Bill
- How New Capital is Changing P/C Industry and What To Do About It
- New Technologies Promise Less Risky Nuclear Fuel
- Cat Bond Buyers Listening to Storm Forecasters, Not Buffett
- Progress Report on Women, Diversity in the P/C Industry with IICF
- Ryan Specialty Group Launches Healthcare Partnership with Lloyd’s Underwriters
- Is Yours a Top 100 Property/Casualty Independent Agency?
- Ironshore Adds AIG’s Marino to Corporate Accounts Team
- Amazon Workplace Faces Safety Scrutiny After 2 Deaths
- Judge Sets May 2015 Date for BP Investors’ Suit Over Oil Spill
- Judge Allows Lawsuit Against LinkedIn Over Use of Email Addresses
- Court Rules Searchable Database Is ‘Fair Use’ of Copyrighted Books
- Aon to Acquire National Flood Services from StoneRiver
- House Votes to Block Raising Truckers’ Minimum Insurance Limits
- Ratings Recap: Farmers Auto/Pekin, John Deere, Southern Pioneer P&C
- On the Road: Are America’s Guardrails Dangerous?
- Best Affirms GEICO and GEICO Corp. Members Ratings; Outlooks Stable
- BP Engineer Gets New Trial Over Oil Spill Evidence
- Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Jumps Into Surety with Zurich’s Delisio
- All Risks Acquires Sports, Entertainment Broker Alive Risk from NAS
- K&K Insurance Launches New Program for Entertainment Centers
- AIG Invests $1.5 Billion in Commercial Lending With Oak Hill
- Hurricane Forecasts Good News for Already-Stable P/C Insurers: Fitch
- Validus Reported Near $600 Million Deal for Western World
- Financial Firms Fear Hensarling May Fill Gap Left by Cantor’s Exit
- Stakes for P/C Insurers ‘High’ If Congress Shifts TRIA Burden: Moody’s
- Patent Risk, Insurance Firm RPX Eyes Supplier of Patent Owner Data
- Businesses Lobby Delaware to Keep ‘Loser Pays’ Option in Shareholder Suits
- Under New CEO Hancock, Smaller AIG Expected to Focus on Growth
- In Search of the Best Defense Against Corporate Cyber Crime
- Argo Surety, SureTec Launch Mid-Market Surety Program
- Supreme Court Limits Bankruptcy Court Authority in Insurance Case
- P/C Chief Hancock to Succeed Benmosche as AIG CEO, President
- Travelers Promotes Schnitzer, Spadorcia in Business Segment Moves
- Commercial Lines Prices Up Only 4% in Q1: Towers Watson
- GM Looks to Settle Ignition Lawsuits, Avoid Punitive Damages
- Supreme Court Lets Stand $70M Florida Tobacco Rulings
- P/C Insurers Must Manage Emerging Risks Including the Next Big One
- Supreme Court Denies BP Bid to Halt Claim Payments
- What Makes Agents Switch Carriers: Channel Harvest Research
- PIA, Floodbroker.com Offer Agents Flood Insurance Sales Tool
- Hartford CEO McGee Steps Down for Medical Recovery; Swift Named CEO
- One Catastrophe Won’t Scare Away Alternative Capital: S&P Panelists
- Cyber Theft, Already a $445 Billion Business, to Grow Bigger
- Ratings Recap: AXA U.S. Subs, Southern Farm, Iron Horse
- Travelers CEO: Will Insurers Outperform More Regulated Banks?
- GM Report Helps Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Build Negligence Case
- 250 More Former Players Join Drug Abuse Lawsuit Against NFL
- Safety National Introduces Safety First Grant Program
- GM Report Uncovers 11 Years of Mishandling Ignition Switch
- Exemptions Reduce Estimate of Americans Paying Obamacare Penalties
- Court Ruling on Well Co-Ownership Could Cost BP, Anadarko Billions in Fines
- Drive Underway to Increase Truckers’ Minimum Insurance Limits
- Top Bid for Power Lunch with Buffett Tops $1M Thus Far
- Some Trucking Firms Want Congress to Ease Safety Limit on Truckers’ Hours
- GM Top Executives Did Not Know About Ignition Defect: WSJ on GM Internal Probe
- Female-Named Hurricanes More Deadly But Less Feared
- S&P Loses Bid to Keep 16 States’ Lawsuits Over Ratings in Federal Court
- The Hartford Names Carano Commercial Markets Loss Control VP
- Farmers Withdraws Climate Change Suit Against Municipalities
- General Star Contract Division Adds Product Liability for 50 Classes
- Inland Marine Underwriters Elect Hoehn of Travelers as Chair
- Ratings: Toyota Motor, Interstate Bankers, Medical Assurance Co. of Mississippi
- Wise Joins AIA Federal Affairs Team
- Insurance Regulators to Job-Switchers: Look Beyond Salary
- Will Energy Firm Executives Be Sued for Ignoring Climate Change?
- Senate Committee Advances Terrorism Insurance Renewal
- Senate OKs Capital Flexibility for Insurers Under Dodd-Frank
- Used Car Dealer Seeks Damages For Inventory of ‘Defective’ GM Vehicles
- Fraud Report: 5 Percent of Organizational Revenues Lost to Internal Theft
- Great American Launches Bitcoin Coverage for Commercial, Governmental Entities
- Fed Adds Ex-Regulator to Oversee Systemic Risk Insurers
- Hurricane Forecast Upped By 1 Over Weaker El Nino
- Supreme Court Limits Patent Claims in 2 Rulings
- MetLife Unwavering in Battle Over Systemic Risk Rules
- Patriot Underwriters Partners with Scottsdale to Offer Workers Comp Coverage
- THL Private Equity, 2 Beecher Carlson Ex-Execs to Build Distribution Firm
- Best Affirms AmTrust Financial and Subs P&C Ratings; Outlook Stable
- Best Upgrades State Farm General’s ICR; Affirms State Farm and Subs FSR’s
- Pacific Ocean Is Key to Atlantic Hurricane Season
- Professional Sports Teams Looking for Terrorism Insurance Win in Congress
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