National News for May 2015
- What States Are Doing to Battle Bird Flu Threat
- Google Drone Prototype Crashes
- ACE Expands Specialty Insurance Offerings for Small Businesses
- Is This the End of Active Hurricane Era?
- It’s Time for Congress to Prepare for Hurricane Season
- Judge Says Alpha Must Cover Legal Costs for Ex-CEO Blankenship
- Fireman’s Fund’s Rippley Named VP Commercial Lines at AAIS
- Let Congress, Not Courts, Decide Obamacare Reimbursements: Administration
- Uber Discloses Expanded Customer Data Tracking
- Allstate Sees Profit in Selling Customer Driving Data
- BP Withdraws Bid for Transocean’s $750M Insurance
- Lockton Partners with Cyber Risk Firm on Executive-Level Assessment Service
- The Hartford Joins Agents’ Trusted Choice Website for Small Commercial Lines
- Single Engineer for Trains a Tough Sell Following Amtrak Crash
- Bad Attitude: Cynical Employees Earn Less Than Others
- Scott, Baskam Join Ridge Insurance
- Why Law Firms Like Facebook to Track Down Medical Victims
- Google Compare and ITC in Online Partnership That Brings Agents into Mix
- Main Street America Names Randle as Director of Distribution
- V3 Launches Community Association Package Program
- NOAA Predicts Quiet-ish Atlantic Hurricane Season
- Wall Street Doesn’t Like Obama Plan on Retirement Brokers’ Fiduciary Duty
- Google Driverless Test Cars to Have Steering Wheels, Brakes
- Greenberg at 90: Still Fighting and Angry After All These Years
- Marcell Exits Guy Carpenter; Newhouse Named Interim CEO of U.S. Operations
- For P/C Insurers, 2014 Was Better Than Average Year
- NBIS Adds Workers’ Comp Coverage for Heavy Construction Industries
- FEMA Reconsidering Private Insurers’ Role in Flood Insurance
- Banks Scuttle MasterCard Settlement with Target Over Data Breach
- Safety Chief Rosekind Shifts Defective Car Oversight into Overdrive
- JetBlue: No Way to Prevent Pilot’s Meltdown
- Beazley Launches Risk Management Website for Breach Response Policyholders
- Willis Construction Adds Russo in New York, Johnson in Chicago
- DEA ‘Operation Pilluted’ Nets 280 Drug Trafficking Arrests in 4 States
- Senate Committee Passes Dodd-Frank Relief Bill Without Democrats
- The Scoop on Recall Insurance and Listeria-Linked Ice Cream
- Insurance Pros: What Are Your Thoughts on Climate Change?
- IronHealth Launches Provider Protection for Bundled Payment Contracts
- Smartcars Could Cause Traffic Headaches
- Top 5 Risks For Grocers That Are Often Uninsured
- BP Settles Gulf Oil Spill Cross Claims with Halliburton, Transocean
- Car Owners Seeking Air Bag Recall Information Swamp NHTSA Website
- Here’s What’s Happening to Healthcare Costs for Typical Family
- Senate Bill Would Raise Amtrak Liability Limit
- Takata Agrees to Recall 34 Million Cars for Air Bag Replacement
- Vertafore’s Answer to Google Compare for Agents
- National Flood Services Launches Private Flood Product Suite
- Driverless, Shared Cars to Cut Vehicle Ownership by Half: Barclays
- Berkley Crime Launches New Investment Company Policy
- Airlines Banning Bulk Shipments of Lithium Rechargeable Batteries
- Supreme Court Eyes Letting Businesses Pay to End Class Actions
- IRS Scrutiny of Offshore Tax Avoidance Repels Bids for Bermuda Reinsurers
- Court Grants Google Copyright Win in Anti-Muslim Film Case
- Supreme Court Favors Employees in Retirement Plan Monitoring Claim
- Chubb Hires 3 from Fireman’s Fund High-Net-Worth Team
- Marsh Partners with FireEye on Cyber Risk Management Program
- Asian-American Groups Target Harvard, UNC for Alleged Racial Bias in Admissions
- Google Dupes Insurance Buyers: Insurance Agent Executive
- Environmental Groups Sue, Charge Oil Train Safety Rules Inadequate
- Etsy Sued by Investors Alleging Firm Hid Products’ Trademark Risks
- Paulson’s Hedge Fund Bets $800M on AIG
- Brit Appoints Courchaine, Canna to New General Liability Team for U.S.
- The Hanover Enhances General Liability, Umbrella Coverages for Business Clients
- Amtrak Crash Spotlights Delay in Federal Mandate for Automatic Brake Technology
- How On-Demand Economy Is Changing Workers’ Compensation
- When Dogs Bite, Home Insurers Pay Average $32,000
- Workers’ Comp Industry Improved in 2014 But NCCI Sees Trouble Ahead
- Senate Now Expected to Pass Fast-Track Authority
- Oil Industry Goes to Court to Block Oil Train Safety Rules
- Beazley Launches Enhanced Management, Cyber Liability Policy for Law Firms
- AIG Names Schreiber Chief Strategy Officer, Eyes M&A Deals
- Appeal to Delay NFL Concussion Settlement
- Market for Drone Insurance Expected to Take Off in Next 5 Years
- Marine Underwriters Re-Elect Travelers’ Hoehn as Chair
- IronPro Names CNA’s Reilly as Senior VP of Mergers Unit
- CNA Launches Admitted Product Liability Policy for Life Sciences
- Banks Keep Distance from Marijuana Business and Its Unbanked Billions
- Companies Let Most Technology Assets Go Unprotected: Aon/Ponemon
- Senate Democrats Derail Fast-Track Trade Authority Bill
- Senate Banking Chair Shelby Unveils Financial Regulation Reform Bill
- XL Launches Stand-Alone Automotive Parts Recall Policy
- ACE Enhances Excess Casualty Coverage for Middle Market Companies
- Liberty Mutual Reports Solid Q1 Results
- Today’s Senate Vote First Test for Fast-Track Trade Authority Obama Wants
- Some Midsize SUVs Do Poorly on Front Overlap Crash Test
- Noel Steps Down from Berkshire Travel Insurance Chief Due to Illness
- Sen. Warren Challenges Obama Over Fast Track Authority
- Google Says Self-Driving Cars Blameless in 11 Accidents in 6 Years, 1.7M Miles
- WKFC Launches Property Program for $500 Million TIV Risks
- Willis Construction Adds Marsh’s Reutter to National, Noonan to South Region
- Mulray Joining Everest National as Chief Underwriting Officer for U.S.
- Kemper CEO, Chairman Southwell to Retire in 2016
- BP Wins Bid to Appeal Some Gulf Oil Spill Damage Claims
- Toward Sensible Risk Management of Earthquake Risk in Energy Production
- No Libel in HBO Sporting Goods Child Labor Broadcast, Jury Says
- Obama Denies Sen. Warren’s Claim Trade Pact Could Undo Dodd-Frank
- Blowing the Whistle on NFL’s Concussion Studies
- HSB Launches Enhanced Farm Equipment, Machinery Breakdown Coverage
- Novamar Insurance Group Expands Yacht Program
- Scottsdale Names Jordan Associate VP for Program Brokerage
- Insurers Warn About Car Sales Scam on Craigslist
- Copyright Claim Against Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Moved to California
- U.S. Seeks Dismissal of MetLife Suit Challenging Systemic Designation
- Jury Gets Libel Suit Against HBO’s ‘Children of Industry’
- AmTrust to Pay $152M for Wells Fargo’s Vehicle Warranty Business
- Greenberg Feels Good About AIG Bailout Trial Closing
- Weather Derivatives Backed By Climate Change Clamor
- MMC’s Zaffino Adds Chairman Title; Willis Re’s Hearn to Join Guy Carpenter as CEO
- Republican Senate Bill on Dodd-Frank, Insurance Changes Expected Next Week
- 90% of Healthcare Firms Hit by Cyber Attack: Ponemon
- Employers Try Adding Genetic Testing to Employee Wellness Mix
- The Hanover Enhances Builders Risk Coverage
- Beyond Cars and Drones, Google Sees Pilotless Airlines
- Zenefits Rises Quickly to Join Billion-Dollar Start-Up Club
- Allstate Says Profit Up 13% in Q1; Will Raise Auto Rates
- JLT Re Names 4 to Senior Posts for North America
- First Licensed Autonomous Freight Truck Hits the Road in U.S.
- Insurers See Impact from Wearable Devices Within 2 Years
- How Wearable Devices Could Disrupt the Insurance Industry
- V3 Insurance Partners Launches Program for Auto Rental Industry
- IronHealth Launches Emerging Infectious Disease Business Interruption Coverage
- Agent Support, Ratings Added to Expanding Google Compare
- OSHA Rule Protects Construction Workers in Confined Spaces
- U.S., Canada Agree on Oil Train Safety Mandates
- P/C Insurers Post Underwriting Profit, Record Surplus for 2014
- Insurers Warn Against Encroachment on State Regulation
- Corporations Push for Fewer U.S. Drone Restrictions
- Great American Public Sector Increases Casualty Capacity
- National Interstate Launches Ambulance Operator Alternative Risk Transfer Program
- RIMS Report: Preparing for Risk Transfer Driven by Autonomous Vehicles
- RIMS Report: Uber Touts Ridesharing Insurance Solution
- GEICO, Allstate to Raise Auto Insurance Premiums
- AIG Could Follow GE’s Move to Shed ‘Too-Big-to-Fail’ Tag
- Buffett Sees Reinsurance Slump
- State Regulation Worked in Red Rock/Foster Jennings Case: Oklahoma Commissioner
- Willis Launches Forensic Accounting Practice
- Norman-Spencer Enhances Real Estate E&O Program
- RIMS Report: Insurers, Employers Still Figuring Out Legal Marijuana’s Effects
- How to Interest Millennials in Insurance Careers
- AIG’s Commercial Lines Improves in Q1
- AG Lynch Urges Corporate, Government Cooperation to Fight Cybercrime
- Judge Denies Daughter’s Cuba Damages Claim Under TRIA for Father’s Death
- RIMS Report: Insurance Gamechangers Include Cyber, Talent, Data
- Supreme Court Narrow Ruling Finds Elected Judges Aren’t Politicians
- AIG Enhances Cybersecurity Services for Cyber Risk Management Program
- Kinsale Introduces Law Enforcement/Police Professional Liability Product
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