National News for June 2015
- Dovetail Insurance Expands MetLife BOP Product to Five More States
- ACE Introduces Online System for Quoting Boats
- Loyalty to Insurer Doesn’t Always Pay Off for Drivers
- MetLife Seeks Documents from Systemic Risk Panel
- GM Directors Off the Hook; Court Nixes Investors’ Lawsuit Over Ignition Switch
- SpaceX Cargo Loss is Government’s, but Rocket Costs and Backlog Uncertain
- Supreme Court Rejects BP, Anadarko Appeal of Gulf Spill Fines
- Updated AIR Hurricane Model for U.S. Features Storm Surge Module
- How Terrorism Reinsurance Law Uncertainty Affected Market
- Google Offering Railroad Crossings Alerts for Drivers
- Congress Leaves Export-Import Bank Facing Lending, Insurance Lapse
- XL Catlin Expands Data Breach Response Specialists Network
- Study: Social Posts Provide Clues to Millennials’ Attitudes
- Marriage Right Doesn’t Protect Gays in Employment, Commerce or Housing
- Ironshore Launches Security Endorsement for High Net Worth Insureds
- How Supreme Court Gay Marriage Ruling Affects Employee Benefit Plans
- How Supreme Court Marriage Ruling Affects Gay Couples’ Finances
- Lawmakers Vow to Review Abandoned Mine Insurance Program
- Hiscox’s Cruz Joins Starr as National Branch Officer, Field Operations Director
- 4 of 10 Mid-Sized Firms Have Had Data Breach: Survey
- Two Self-Driving Cars Avoid Collision, Says Passenger
- Greenberg Says Bailout Lawsuit About Government Overstepping Its Bounds
- Hedge Funds Targeted in Senator Wyden’s Reinsurance Tax Bill
- ABRY Partners Replaces BHMS as Investor in Hilb Group Expansion
- Beazley Introduces Fraudulent Instruction Insurance
- Supreme Court Opinion To Have No Effect on Health Insurers: S&P
- Insurers Disappointed as Supreme Court Backs Disparate Impact Claims
- Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare Tax Subsidies
- PLUS Names Thompson as Executive Director
- CAMICO Wins IMCA Marketing Award; Allstate, Hartford, Jackson Also Honored
- Congress Finally Approves Fast Track Trade Authority
- Senator ‘Shocked’ by Highway Safety Agency ‘Incompetence’
- Fully Self-Driving Cars Still 15 Years Down the Road: Supplier
- 6 Decisions Coming from Supreme Court Over Next Few Days
- BHSI Launches E&O Coverage for Insurance Executives, Employees
- Top 10 Metro Areas for Vehicle Theft
- Senate Advances Fast Track Trade Bill
- Democrats Vow One Sentence Fix If Court Ends Obamacare Subsidies
- Scottsdale’s Underwriting Senior VP Tiepelman to Retire
- New Worker Classification Needed for Sharing Economy, Uber Drivers
- Lloyd’s Stops Insuring Marijuana Firms Due to U.S. Law Conflicts
- IMCA Presents ‘Innovation Torchbearer Award’ to Insurance Information Institute
- USAA Piloting Auto Insurance Quotes in California Through Google Compare
- Commentary: An Economic Case for Internal Perpetuation
- Federal Agencies Issue Flood Insurance Rule for Lenders
- Alliant Reports ‘Significant’ Investment from Stone Point Capital
- Crop Insurance Payments for Drought More Than for Flooding
- U.S. Warns of Dire Consequences If No Global Action on Climate Change
- Most Drivers Mum About Ridesharing, Although Many Agents Ask
- AIG Names Bexiga Commercial Insurance IT Officer
- Why Cigna Rejected $47 Billion Bid by Anthem
- XL’s Fortune Joins Aspen Product Liability Team
- Uber Expected to Ride Out Employee Ruling, Maintain High Valuation
- Report Calls for Overhaul of U.S. Auto Safety Agency
- Flood Insurance Claims Underpayments Not Widespread: Senate Study
- How Obamacare Has Avoided Death Spiral
- Reinsurance Suit Against Greenberg Sent to New York’s Top Court Again
- How Ruling That Drivers Are Employees Upends Uber Business Model
- Allstate Estimates May Catastrophe Losses at $178M
- Bankers Healthcare Group Launches Agency for Healthcare Professionals
- Insurers Stepping Toward Greater Green Investment Footprint
- JLT Specialty, Keeper Security Form Client Data Protection Partnership
- High-Net Worth Insurer PURE Group Recapitalizes with Stone Point Capital, KKR
- Willis North America Adds 5 to FINEX Cyber Unit
- Zurich Insurance Plans Insurance Apprenticeship Program in U.S.
- Insurers Unprepared for Self-Driving Car Disruption: KPMG
- Car Thieves Now Targeting Vehicles for Parts
- No Clear Rescue Plan If Supreme Court Ends Obamacare Subsidies
- U.S. Vows Commercial Drone Rules Within a Year
- Marsh Launches Diagnostic Tool to Estimate Clients’ Total Cost of Risk
- Systemic Risk Panel to Show Lawmakers Why Some Insurers Are Too Big to Fail
- With HCC Holdings Buy, Tokio Marine Enhances Already Top Commercial Lines Performance
- Greenberg Will Appeal AIG Bailout Case Win Over Lack of Damages
- Federal Reserve Plan for Insurer Capital Standards Rests on States: Reuters
- Former QBE Insurance Executive, Consultant Charged with Embezzling $2.6M
- Vertafore Acquires Florida-Based Agency Technology Provider QQ Solutions
- Study: Agencies That Use Technology Experience More Growth
- The Hartford Expands Professional Liability Products to Small Business
- Ethics of Self-Driving Cars: Should They Kill Driver to Save Others?
- How Greenberg’s Lawyer, Boies, Won AIG Bailout Battle
- AIG Avoids Damages with Ruling in Greenberg Bailout Lawsuit
- The High Cost of Insuring a Teen Driver
- ACE Launches General Liability Offering for Multinational Middle-Market Companies
- Judge Rules for Greenberg in Suit Against AIG Bailout But Nixes Damages
- Despite Being Happy with Auto Insurer, 33% Switch After Shopping Online
- Google Receives Patent on Drones for Emergency Medical Services
- Why Art Thieves Are So Successful
- JLT Specialty Names Aon’s van Heukelum as Chief Commercial Officer
- Ramsey Joins Catalytic, Builds Wind Underwriting Team, Capacity
- Battle Over Fast-Track Trade Authority Resumes This Week in House
- Workers’ Compensation Eyes Telemedicine As Treatment Option
- PURE Launches Cyber Program for High-Net Worth Segment
- Top 3 Reasons Firms Are Buying Cyber Insurance
- Where Cyber Insurance Underwriting Stands Today
- House Committee Advances Patent Reform Bill
- Senate Fails to Advance Cybersecurity Bill
- Fidelis Group Holdings Launches Master Port Risk Program for Maritime Industry
- Ironshore Establishes Real Estate Industry Practice, Taps Mazman to Lead
- Assurant Finds Buyer for Health Insurance Business: National General
- Medvidofsky Named VP of Human Resources at Main Street America
- El Nino Now 85% Likely to Last Through Winter: U.S. Climate Forecasters
- Number of Cars with Takata Air Bags Uncertain
- Growth Business: Helping Insurers Recoup Personal Injury Medical Costs
- Smart Cars Don’t Eliminate Human Errors
- Judge Denies Uber Arbitration in Dispute with Drivers
- Ironshore Names Whitehead Chief Underwriting Officer for Special Casualty
- MarketScout Launches New High Net Worth Underwriting Facility
- Report: 4.5 Million Homes in 13 States at Extreme Wildfire Risk
- Supreme Court to Hear Tyson Challenge to Damages in Worker Pay Class Action
- U.S. Pushes for Collision Prevention Technology on All New Cars, Trucks
- House Could Vote on Fast-Track Trade Bill Friday
- Judge Orders Trinity Guardrail Maker to Pay $663M for Cheating Government
- Tokio Marine to Buy HCC for $7.5B in Biggest Ever Deal by Japanese Insurer
- BHSI, Irwin Siegel Agency to Offer Human, Social Service Program
- Hewlett-Packard’s Insurers to Pay $100M into Autonomy Settlement Fun
- Zeitman Named President of Admiral Insurance, Succeeding Carey
- Obama Seeks ‘Nimble, Aggressive, Well-Resourced’ Cyber Defense
- President Obama ‘Optimistic’ Court Will Uphold Health Insurance Subsidies
- Should U.S. Retaliate for Cyber Attacks?
- Allstate Reunites Owner with ’72 Corvette 43 Years After It Was Stolen
- K&K Launches New Program for Franchised RV Dealers
- Beecher Carlson Releases Cyber Business Interruption Calculator
- Aspen Names Brown to Head U.S. Distribution– Correction
- U.S. Regulators Scrutinizing Coal Mines’ Clean-Up Insurance Program
- Google to Issue Monthly Reports on Self-Driving Car Accidents
- Bipartisan Bill Targets Pregnancy Discrimination in Workplace
- Allstate to Offer Ridesharing Endorsement in Four States
- ProSight Specialty Launches Insurance Program for Drone Operators
- Price Declines Slow on June U.S. Reinsurance Renewals: Guy Carpenter
- Fraudster Huff with ‘Staggering’ Record and ‘Chutzpah’ Gets 12 Years in Prison
- EPA Finds Little Evidence Fracking Contaminates Drinking Water
- AIG Gains $3.7 Billion Cash in Sale of Aircraft Leasing Unit AerCap Stock
- Tipsord to Succeed Rust as State Farm CEO
- The Risk of Data Breach in Agencies Today
- Green Bond Wave Ahead of Climate Change Conference in Paris?
- NSM Insurance Group Launches Brewery, Winery Insurance Program
- What Agents Want for Future Growth: Channel Harvest Survey
- Report: More Than 6.6M Atlantic and Gulf Coast Homes at Risk of Storm Surge
- Lloyd’s Agency Ascot Appoints Casualty Fac Team for Ascot Underwriting in U.S.
- Academy of Insurance Sports New Look, Membership System
- Chubb’s Leidwinger Named President, Chief Operating Officer for CNA Commercial
- AIG CEO Hancock Assesses Risk from Greenberg Bailout Lawsuit
- Top 5 Issues in Often-Misunderstood Business Interruption Insurance
- ISO Drone Insurance Coverage Options Now Available to Insurers
- Allied World Launches New Cyber Risk Assessment, Mitigation Service
- W.R. Berkley Names Ballard, Lederman, Shiel to Executive VP Posts
- Exec’s Parting Shot: Flood Insurance Program Is a ‘Melting Iceberg’
- Google Suspects Movie Studios Conspired with Mississippi Attorney General
- Some Insurers Seeking 10-20% Rate Hikes on Obamacare Businesss
- Congress Asks Why Takata Air Bag Defect Went Unresolved So Long
- CNA Enhances General Liability Coverage for CNA Paramount
- The Hartford Signs Major League Baseball Contract
- Insurers Can Track Mileage with Policyholders’ Smartphones
- Kwan Named E&S Casualty Senior VP for Swiss Re Corporate Solutions
- Pacific Storms Rage While Atlantic Hurricane Season Opens Quietly
- It’s a Myth That Summer Storms Mitigate Droughts: Researcher
- What Supreme Court’s Head Scarf Ruling Means for Employers
- Worried About Dying from Surgery, Hurricane, Plane Crash? Check Out the Odds
- OneBeacon Adds Risk Management Services to EPLI Coverage
- Supreme Court Sets Standard for Prosecuting Social Media Threats
- Effective Wildfire Prevention Hampered by Liability, Weather, Development
- Supreme Court Backs Muslim Woman’s Job Bias Claim Over Head Scarf
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