National News for March 2016
- Climate Change Easy Bet to Be Hot Topic at Insurance Regulators’ Meeting
- AIG CEO Hancock Sees Opportunity in MetLife Systemic Risk Win
- Company Passwords for Sale?
- CNA Names Chubb’s Townsend as Senior Vice President for Claims
- Class Action Settlements Topped $3 Billion in 2015: Cornerstone Research
- MetLife Victory Could Push AIG, Pru to Fight Systemic Risk Designations
- AIG’s United Guaranty Files for IPO
- GM Wins Second ‘Bellwether’ Ignition Switch Trial
- Chubb Launches Healthcare Industry Practice, Taps Clouser to Lead
- MetLife Wins Court Appeal to Strike Down Systemic Risk Tag
- Capp Joins Answer Financial to Sign More Business Partners
- Split Supreme Court in Search of Birth Control Benefit Compromise
- Insurance Safety Institute Finds Most Headlights Not Bright Enough
- AIG Executives’ Pay Trimmed for Missing Profit Goals
- U.S. Promises Rules for Makers of Driverless Cars Within Months
- Startup Slice, Offering Insurance for On-Demand Workers, Raises $3.9M
- Self-Driving Cars to Create Long Term Challenges for Auto Insurers: Moody’s
- The Future of Commercial Drone Use
- Hedge Funds Settle Press Release Hacking Claims for $18M
- U.S. Seismic Risk Maps Now Include Earthquakes Caused by Humans
- ISO Introduces Drone Coverage Options for Commercial Inland Marine Market
- China’s Anbang Insurance Ups Offer for Starwood Hotels to $14B
- How to Use Social Media, Surveillance to Catch Workers Compensation Lies
- Most Doctors Overprescribe Opioids: National Safety Council
- ISO to Collect Terrorism Insurance Data for Treasury
- Prepare for Disruption in High Net Worth Insurance Segment
- Wells Media’s Dunford Departs
- 10 ACP Re Insurers Miss Deadline; A.M. Best Places Ratings Under Review
- OSHA Issues Final Rule on Silica Exposure Protections; Industries Vow to Overturn
- How Much Do U.S. Health Insurance Tax Breaks and Subsidies Cost?
- Judge Grants VW More Time for Diesel Fix
- Obamacare Exchanges Enrolled Estimated 12 Million This Year
- VW May Miss Court Deadline for Diesel Fix with U.S. Regulators
- Health Insurers Working to Improve Provider Network Directories
- How Telematics Saves on Claims, Improves Customer Experience
- Chubb Names Leaders for Expanded Small Commercial Division for North America
- FDA Extends Required Warnings to Short-Acting Opioid Painkillers
- AIG Continues with Job Cuts; Warns 242 in New York Next to Go
- Supreme Court Rules for Workers in Class Action Against Tyson
- Former U.S. Security Specialist’s MGA Ridge Global Tackling Cyber Risks
- Chubb Global Cyber Practice Launches Service to Combat Ransomware Attacks
- Digital Insurance Agency MassDrive Expands Online Platform to All States
- Insurance Journal Survey for Young Agents: Speak Now!
- Samsung-Apple iPhone Patent Damages Headed to Supreme Court
- For Greenbergs Post-AIG, Business Is $650M Family Affair
- Court Finds Law Firms Not Liable in Financier Stanford’s Ponzi Scheme
- Rating Agency Warns P/C Insurers on Taking On Too Much Cyber Risk
- Ironshore Environmental Expands Spill Coverage to Real Estate Segment
- Supreme Court Lets NFL Players’ Image Rights Claims Proceed
- Ridesharing Firm Could Bypass Drivers by Building Own Autonomous Fleet
- Why Ridesharing Won’t Hurt Car Sales
- New Chubb’s O’Brien Traverses High Wire of Integrating High Net Worth Businesses
- Allstate’s Pickford Named InVEST Director, Replacing Retiring Mattis
- Insurance Rates for Architects, Engineers Not Going Anywhere
- Vehicles ‘Increasingly Vulnerable’ to Hacking, Warns FBI
- EnPro Agrees to $480 Million Settlement of Garlock Asbestos Claims
- TUMI Launches Local & Intermediate Trucking Program
- General Star Adds Product Liability Coverages for Manufacturers, Distributors
- How Will Paris Agreement Change The Insurance Industry?
- Drowning in Negative Publicity, SeaWorld Ends Killer Whale Breeding
- The Hartford’s Grab of Maxum Specialty ‘Smart Move’: Analyst
- Chubb Changes Transactional Insurance Team; Plans for Growth
- Automatic Braking, Due by 2022 in U.S. Cars, Could Prevent 20% of All Crashes
- The Hartford Expands E&S Capabilities with Acquisition of Maxum Specialty
- NFL Acknowledges Head Trauma Disease CTE Link for First Time
- Ignition Switch Plaintiffs Ask Court to Toss GM Liability Shield Gained in Bankruptcy
- CDC Issues Opioid Prescription Guideline for Primary Care Doctors
- Main Street America Finished 2015 Strong
- P/C Insurers’ Operating Earnings Fell 7.2% in 2015: Fitch
- Driverless Car Supporters Urge National Laws to Override State, Local
- Survey Shows Many Americans Fine with Lying to the IRS, or Their Insurer
- Chamber of Commerce Vows to Sue Over Retirement Advisor Rule
- Brit Launches New Fine Art & Specie Offering
- QBE Launches Inland Marine Practice, Taps Pye to Lead
- 2 Instech Startups Target Small Business Insurance Market
- GM Tells Ignition Switch Jury: ‘Sometimes Accidents Just Happen’
- What About Cuba as an Insurance Market?
- Rural Coastal Counties Fear Economics of Battle Against Rising Seas
- Clermont Specialty Managers to Offer Cyber Coverage Through HSB
- Regulations Create Roadblock for Automated Cars Without Human Controls
- China Insurer Anbang Offers $6.5 Billion to Buy Major U.S. Hotel Group
- Berkshire Hathaway Balks at Reporting on Climate Change Risks
- Insurers with Big Stake Buy Puerto Rico Bonds
- CoreLogic Expands National Parcel Boundary Database
- Federal Judge Rules BP Absolved from U.S. Lawsuits Over Drilling Ban
- ‘Smart City’ Pilot Project to Test Tools Aimed at Reducing Accidents
- Taxes Complicated for Uninsured and Newly-Insured Repaying Subsidies
- Federal Safety Agency Asking Google About Self-Driving Car Accident
- Hartford CEO Swift to Chair P/C Insurer Trade Group AIA
- Senate Bill Would Require Testing Drone Operators on Rules of the Sky
- Suit by Aon Founder Ryan Claims IT Startup Swindled Him Out of Millions
- AIG Frees Up Capital with Reinsurance Pact with Swiss Re
- Travelers to Offer Homeowners Insurance Discount for Smart Home Devices
- BHSI Forms Medical Stop Loss Division
- How Insurance for Nonprofits Has Changed for the Better
- Why Pedestrian Traffic Fatalities Are on Rise
- Hub’s Vondrasek Joins MarshBerry as Vice President of Recruiting
- Home Depot Settles Data Breach Lawsuit for $19.5M
- Lawmakers Seek Audit of Mine Cleanup Insurance Program
- American Financial Offers to Buy Rest of Insurer National Interstate for $293M
- Beazley Reports Industry Data Breaches Up 60% in 2015
- Thinking Outside the Glove Box to Get Recalled Autos Repaired
- The Future, and Present, Belong to Specialty P/C Insurers: Conning
- RLI Launches High Performance Driver’s Education Event Insurance
- Aon Affinity, Arch Insurance Launch Social Service Insurance Program
- Supreme Court Nixes AIG Bid to Recoup Foreign Tax Credits
- Former AIG Executive Doyle to Join Marsh as President
- Meteorologists Can Predict Tornadoes Weeks in Advance
- The Hartford, Olympians to Advocate ‘Death of Disability’ at SXSW
- Travelers Enhances Contractors Professional, Pollution Liability Coverage
- Regional P/C Insurers Shine in Underwriting, Pricing Performance: Fitch
- Untested Cyber Coverage Remains ‘Volatile,’ Experts Say
- Valen Analytics Releases Risk Scoring Model for Commercial Auto Insurers
- NetVu Names Nebraska’s Dale as Chairman
- Munich Re’s Vasturia to Serve as IICF Chairman
- Liberty Mutual Profit Fell 70% in 2015
- U.S. Treasury Seeks Terrorism Data from Insurers
- Ironshore Expands Coverage for Transportation Product Segment
- Scientist Closer to Making Climate Modeling More Accurate
- P/C Insurers Expanding Use of Predictive Models, Big Data Across Functions
- Hedge Funds Leery of Moves to Limit U.S. Reinsurance Tax Break
- Why Small Commercial Lines May Not Be So Bright for Agency Carriers
- Timeline: Workplace Shootings in U.S. Over Past 5 Years
- MetLife Auto & Home Launches Commercial Auto Insurance in Select States
- Chubb’s Hearden, Allianz’s LePiane Join Hiscox Professional Risks
- XL Catlin Expands Professional Liability Unit; Adds AIG’s Santiago
- House Committee Passes Private Flood Insurance Bill
- Hospitals Say Anthem-Cigna Merger Will Empower Blue Cross, Hurt Consumers
- Self-Driving Car Developers Betting on Senior Citizen Market
- The Effect of Justice Scalia’s Death on Supreme Court Class Action Rulings
- Jewelers unBLOCKed Appointed MGA for Tokio Marine
- Allianz Launches Workers’ Comp Unit for Aviation Risks
- Top 25 P/C Insurance Carriers, Groups by Line of Insurance: NAIC
- Ironshore Establishes Private Client Group, Launches Coverage in Select States
- Supreme Court Blocks States from Collecting Self-Insurers’ Health Cost Data
- P/C Insurers’ Faith in Predictive Modeling Continues to Grow
- AIG, Coventry Settle Life Settlements Case
- Class Action Filed Against Royal Caribbean Over Storm-Tossed Cruise
- Studies Weigh How Human Behaviors Affect Self-Driving Cars
- U.S. Regulator Treads Lightly on Railroads Over Hazmat Violations: Report
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