National News for December 2017
- Entering 2018, Americans More Focused on Financial Health Than Physical Wellness: Allianz Survey
- 2017 ‘One of Worst’ for U.S. Weather with 15 Events Costing $1 Billion or More
- Why Patent ‘Shenanigans’ Share Blame for High Cost of Drugs
- Opioid Overdoses Behind Drop in Life Expectancy for Americans
- Trump Administration Seeks to Ease Offshore Drilling Safety Rules
- Top Insurance Journal National Stories of 2017
- Sugary Sports Beans, Uber Divorce Claims Among Chamber’s ‘Most Ridiculous’ Lawsuits of 2017
- Deploying Technology, Security Measures to Fight Weaponization of Autos
- Some Question CVS-Aetna Remodeling of Health Care
- Building for Climate Change: Miami’s High-Net Worth High-Rises as a Model
- Obamacare Enrollment Down Only 4% Despite GOP Sabotage Campaign
- Judge Nixes $150M Damages Against Testosterone Drugmaker AbbVie
- Workplace Fatalities Continue to Increase, with Transportation Incidents #1 Cause
- EPA Clears Monsanto Roundup Chemical of Health Risks to Humans
- New Product Uses Blockchain to Show Proof of Insurance
- CNA’s Sather Joins AXIS Insurance U.S. Programs as Underwriter
- What They Are Saying About Effects of Trump Tax Cuts on Insurance Industry
- Reinsurance Price Hikes May Be Short-Lived as Capacity Is Abundant
- EU Ruling Upholding Taxi Rules for Uber a Contrast to U.S. Approach
- Tax Act Could Pose Challenge for Municipal Bond Market
- Trump Effort to Roll Back Rail Safety Rules Questioned Following Amtrak Crash
- Microsoft Wants to Pit AI Against Climate Change
- Congress OKs Stop-Gap Funding to Avoid Government Shutdown
- Sompo’s Nardiello Joins CNA Commercial’s Large/Complex Property Underwriting Team
- Chubb Restructures Real Estate and Hospitality Practice
- Tracking System Could Speed OK for Drone Deliveries in U.S.
- How Bitcoin Is Fueling Ransomware Insurance Claims
- Employers, Workers’ Compensation Carriers Eye Trend in Telehealth: Telerehab
- How Sex Abuse Culture Threatens Restaurant Industry and What It Can Do About It
- Blakey Named President, CEO of Starr Insurance Holdings as Dangelo Retires
- Startup Trov, Munich Re to Insure Riders of Waymo’s Self-Driving Car Service
- Catastrophe Bond Managers Put Hurricanes Behind Them, Plan New Launches
- Microsoft to Stop Requiring Arbitration for Employees’ Harassment, Bias Claims
- U.S. Says North Korea to Blame for ‘WannaCry’ Cyber Attack
- Fatal Amtrak Crash in Washington State Stirs Safety Debate in D.C.
- Trump Hotel, EPA Building Among Federal Properties in Flood Zones
- Lemonade Raises $120 Million Led by the SoftBank to Fund Global Expansion
- Chubb Names Booker Major Commercial Lines Property Accounts Senior VP
- House Republicans Eye Disaster Aid, Short-Term Funding Bill
- U.S. Adds 7 Nuclear Sites to ‘No-Drone Zone’ List of Military Bases, Landmarks
- DUAL Commercial Launches New CyberTech Defense Product
- Despite Insurance Losses, Berkshire Stock Joins Exclusive Club
- Travelers Announces MacLean, President and COO, to Retire Next March
- Language Lessons for Property/Casualty Insurers
- CVS-Aetna Merger Will Influence Employers’ Benefits Decisions: Aon
- Settlement Reached in Partisan Lawsuit Over Obamacare Subsidies
- Trump’s Labor Board Overturns Obama ‘Joint Employer’ Rule
- Updated: OSHA Rule Requiring Electronic Reporting of Injuries Goes Into Effect
- American Family Insurance Acquires Data Analytics Firm; Also Home Tech Firm
- Nation-State Believed Responsible for ‘Watershed’ Cyber Attack on Industrial Plant
- La Nina Expected to Linger All Winter
- Deadly London Tower Fire Sparks Development in U.S. of Safety Evaluation Tool
- Here’s What’s in Latest Negotiated Republican Tax Bill
- Allianz Specialty for North America Promotes Haagen, Soja as Barnwell Retires
- Judge Nixes Bid to Halt Federal Charters for Fintech Firms as Premature
- United Nations Assessing Disaster Recovery in Puerto Rico
- 5 Ex-NFL Players, Executive Suspended by Networks Over Sexual Harassment Allegations
- Investor Sues Uber Directors Over $680M Acquisition of Autonomous Car Firm
- Hotels Facing Increased Scrutiny Over Employees’ Safety
- Starr Offers Drone Coverage to Academy of Model Aeronautics Members
- What to Know About the Senior Care Market
- The Hartford Names Bush to Head Personal Lines
- Tower Group Companies Top List of U.S. P/C Impairments in 2016: A.M. Best
- Allied World Launches Professional Liability Policy for Healthcare Consultants
- New AIG Cyber Model to Evaluate, Score Client Cyber Risk
- Safety Group Says GM’s In-Car Shopping App Encourages Distracted Driving
- Special Reuters Report: The High Cost of Building in High Flood Risk Areas
- Supreme Court Won’t Hear Sexual Orientation Job Bias Case
- Why Publishing Policies Against Workplace Sexual Harassment Is Not Enough
- Lawyers Handling Marijuana Business Operate in Hazy Legal Zone
- Lockton Affinity Adds Cyber Coverage to Lawyers PL Program
- Commercial Insurance Prices in U.S. Stayed Flat in Q3: Willis Towers Watson
- McKesson Board Minutes Indicate Little Oversight by Directors of Opioid Operations, Lawsuit Says
- Digital Insurer Lemonade Says No License Needed by Adopters of Its API Sales Platform
- Uber to Settle U.S. Lawsuit by Indian Woman Raped by Driver
- When Humility in a Boss Pays Off and When It Doesn’t
- It’ll Take Time for P/C Insurers’ Profits to Rebound After 2017 Storms, Wildfires: Fitch
- Small Trucking Firms Want Trump to Delay Electronic Log Requirement
- Regulation, Deregulation and the Markets: Bloomberg View
- ‘Rideshare Guy’ Says 60-80% of Drivers Still Don’t Have Correct Insurance
- Civilian Drone Safety Incidents Keep Rising
- Congress Avoids Government Shutdown with 2-Week Funding Measure
- How Commercial Insurance Customers Rate Large Carriers, Brokers
- Growth in U.S. Healthcare Spending Slowed in 2016: CMS
- Jury Says J&J, Bayer Must Pay $28 Million for Woman’s Injuries from Xarelto Drug
- Ascent Enhances CyberPro Healthcare Regulatory Billings Product
- U.S. to Investigate Growing Length of Freight Trains as Threat to Safety
- NAIC Honors 3 for Leadership in State Insurance Regulation
- AIR Worldwide Updates Hurricane Maria Loss Estimate
- Republicans Eye Stopgap Funding to Avoid Government, Flood Insurance Shutdown
- Tennessee’s McPeak to Succeed Wisconsin’s Nickel as NAIC President in 2018
- Coalition, a Cyber Insurer and Cybersecurity Firm, Makes Its Debut
- Claims Firm Sedgwick to Acquire Competitor Cunningham Lindsey
- Technology, Regulation Prove Double-Edged Swords in Product Recall Risk
- 29 Million Flood Risk Properties Lie Outside Official Flood Zones: CoreLogic
- U.S. Flood Program to Collect $1 Billion in Reinsurance for Hurricane Harvey Claims
- Why Women Are Key to Long-Term U.S. Economic Growth: S&P
- Chief Risk Officers’ Average Salary Tops $190,000: RIMS
- AIG Lures Berkshire Hathaway’s Bolt for Chief Underwriting Post
- Former Chubb Chairman, CEO O’Hare Passes Away at 75
- MAPFRE USA to Exit 5, Focus on 11 States; Sell New York and Life Units in Reorganization
- EPA Won’t Require Mining Firms to Prove Cleanup Costs
- Cost of Driverless Vehicles to Drop Dramatically: Delphi CEO
- How Value of Past Products Influences What Consumers Will Pay
- Argo Partners With Front Line Safety on Restaurant, Grocer Safety Products
- USI Completes Acquisition of Wells Fargo Commercial Insurance Business
- Hartford to Sell Run-Off Life, Annuity Business for $2.05 Billion
- Some in Congress Question Trump Flood Insurance, Disaster Aid Reforms
- How Republicans’ Senate, House Tax Bills Differ
- CVS to Pay $67.5B for Aetna to Create Giant Health Firm with ‘10,000 New Front Doors’
- Trump Nominates Life Industry’s Workman to Replace Woodall on Financial Stability Panel
- House Republicans Advance Bill Making It Easier to Carry Guns Across State Lines
- SIS Wholesale Insurance Services Launches Online Builders Risk Program
- Victim Compensation for Emotional Suffering: How Much Is Right?
- Express Scripts Not Looking But Open to Deal with an Insurer, Amazon
- GM Plans Fleets of Autonomous Robo-Taxis by 2019
- How Payment Policies of Insurers, Government Discourage Opioid Alternatives
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