National News for April 2017
- Appeals Court Blocks Anthem-Cigna Merger Bid
- Unions Remind U.S.: 150 Workers Die Every Day from Job Injuries, Illnesses
- The Hartford Reports Improved Q1 Results
- MetLife CEO Says Businesses Must Give Up Tax Breaks for Lower Tax Rate
- Republicans Not Ready to Vote on Obamacare Replacement Bill
- ICC Forms Risk Purchasing Group Offering Admitted Umbrella Coverage to Restaurants
- Senate Bill Would Extend National Flood Insurance Program for 10 Years
- How Drivers Dress-Up Old Cars with New Safety Tech
- Report: Climate Change Could Cause Mass U.S. Migration
- United Airlines Settles with Passenger Dragged from Plane
- Marsh Reports 5% Revenue Growth in Q1
- Former Willis CEO Casserley Joins Warburg Pincus as Investment Advisor
- House Committee Expected to Advance Overhaul of Dodd-Frank
- Octo Telematics Offers Insurers Distracted Driving Scoring Feature
- JPMorgan Not Liable to Madoff Customers, Court Rules
- Biohazard Cleanups Not Pretty-and Neither Are the Costs to Insurers
- House Republicans Report Progress on Another Health Plan to Replace Obamacare
- SEC Awards $4 Million to Whistleblower
- Chubb’s Greenberg Clarifies Criticism of Wholesale Brokers
- Despite ‘Difficult’ Environment, Chubb Q1 Profit Tops $1 Billion
- Supreme Court Weighs Limiting Where Corporations Can Be Sued
- Realities of Today’s Commercial Insurance Market: Willis Towers Watson
- Generali Expands in U.S. with Chicago, San Francisco Offices and 3 Hires
- Vertafore Acquires Analytics Firm RiskMatch
- XL Catlin Enhances International Liability Policies for U.S.-based Businesses
- MetLife Asks Court to Delay ‘Too Big to Fail’ Challenge as Trump Vows Review
- Willis Towers Watson Names 6 to Global FINEX Senior Leadership Team
- RIMS 2017: Firms Value Cyber Assets Highly Until Time for Insurance
- Bush Beats Trump! And Other Insurance Political Giving News
- RIMS 2017: Risk Managers in Denial Over Disruptive Technologies
- Motorists Mutual, BrickStreet Mutual Finalize Joint Venture
- Supreme Court Rejects GM Use of Bankruptcy to Block Ignition Lawsuits
- RIMS 2017: Why Cyber Should Be Treated as Standalone Insurance
- Tesla Pushes Back on Class Action Alleging Its Autopilot Software Is Dangerous
- AIG Study Shows How, Why M&A Insurance Claims Frequency Is Rising
- States to Get $485 Million for Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs
- Intellectual Property Coverage Presents Challenges in Private D&O
- New Modeling Product From AIR Worldwide Analyzes Client Cyber Risk
- Willis Towers Watson Names Peiser Head of Broking North America
- Allied World to Offer Drone Loss Control Services to Policyholders
- How Meteorologists View 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season
- Trump to Order Review of Dodd-Frank Reforms, Taxes for Insurers, Banks
- Private Firms Lose Privacy When Liability Battles Reach Courtroom
- Main Street America Promotes Frazier to SVP; Appoints 3 New Company Officers
- Hamilton’s Duperreault Among Candidates Being Considered as AIG CEO
- Chubb Names Merna COO of North America Major Accounts
- BP Oil Spill Caused $17.2 Billion in Natural Resource Damage: Virginia Tech Scientists
- Amerisure Names Erie’s Ishwar as Chief Underwriting Officer
- Allstate’s Catastrophe Losses Topped $780 Million in Q1
- Cyber Thieves Hit 1,200 U.S. Hotels in InterContinental Chain
- Tornado, Hail Losses Hurt Travelers in Q1
- W.R. Berkley Adds Insurance Technology Analyst from Goldman to Investment Team
- Better Data, Models Expand Private Flood Insurance Opportunities: Actuaries
- State Regulators Scrutinizing Use of Premium Caps in Insurance Rating
- CoverHound Launches Online Rideshare Insurance Offering
- Future Tech to Create Lower Claims Frequency, New Threats: Allianz Report
- XL Catlin Boosts Terrorism Insurance Limits to $250M
- Specialty Brokers AmWINS and Partners Specialty Group to Merge
- Total Cost of Risk Drops for 3rd Year: RIMS Benchmark
- Allianz Expands North American Crisis Management Team
- Insurers Push to Keep Industry Expert Woodall on U.S. Regulatory Council
- Insurers Increasingly Embrace Robots over Humans for Customer Service
- Sen. Grassley Raises Concerns About Conduct at Hospital Operator UHS
- Big ‘I’ Advantage Promotes Pierson to Assistant Vice President
- UnitedHealth Prices 2018 Insurance Plans to Include Obamacare Tax
- Apple Soon Will Begin Road-Testing Self-Driving Car Software: Source
- IRobot Sues Hoover, Other Competitors over Robotic Vacuum Patents
- Obamacare Insurers Struggle to Set Plans Amid Threats to Program
- FGL Pulls $1.6B Deal with China’s Anbang; Other Suitors Interested
- All Risks Launches Commercial Earthquake Program
- Billionaire Investor John Paulson Planning AIG Board Exit
- Trump Aims to Raise Insurer Participation in Obamacare with New Rules
- AIG Board Refuses CEO Hancock’s 2016 Cash Bonus after Poor Earnings
- Grand Theft Auto Video Game Teaches Autonomous Cars How to Drive
- Rideshare Drivers Take ‘Huge Risk’ with Personal Auto Coverage: GEICO
- China’s Ant Financial Raises Bid for Fintech Firm, MoneyGram, by 36%
- China’s Anbang to Abandon Attempt to Buy FGL: Sources
- Direct to Consumer Genetic Testing: Risks and Opportunities
- Trump’s Proposed Cuts to NASA and NOAA Could Impact Forecasting, Modeling
- New AXIS Insurance Management Liability Policy Targets Private Companies
- Trump May Withhold Insurers’ Funds to Force Democrats to Negotiate Healthcare
- Here’s How United Should Have Responded to Violent Removal of Passenger: Viewpoint
- Markel Names Mozingo to Grow Global Business with U.S. Brokers
- Political Risk a Growing Concern, Say Brokers, Insurers
- New Study Backs Spinal Manipulation Therapy for Low Back Pain
- Cyber Losses Testing Insurance Policy Boundaries
- United Passenger’s Lawyers Preparing to Drag Airline Into Court
- Goldman Sachs Loses Bid to Limit Class Action Alleging Gender Discrimination
- Smart Choice Has Record Start in 2017, Forecasts Continued Growth
- Third Point Re Names Berkshire Hathaway’s Govrin to U.S. Underwriting Post
- Board Member Paulson’s Disclosure of His Fund’s AIG Stock Sale Questioned
- Worldwide Facilities Adds Coverage Suite for Autonomous Vehicle Industry
- Identifying Surgical Patients at Risk of Becoming Long-Term Opioid Users
- AmTrust Denies Knowledge of FBI Accounting Probe; Touts New Financial Team
- Cyber Insurance: Many Choices Now That There Is No Choice
- Costly Business Disruptor: Aging U.S. Infrastructure
- U.S. Risk, Aspen Insurance to Offer Specialty Marine Product
- U.S. Fund Payouts to Terrorism Victims to Reach $1 Billion
- Harvard/UCLA Study Questions High Costs of Hospital-Based Primary Care
- QBE North America Names CNA’s Beckman Chief Underwriting Officer
- Chubb Appoints Robic to Succeed Gunter in High-Net-Worth Position
- Congress Sends Bill to Boost Weather Research to President’s Desk
- Looks Like Below-Average Atlantic Hurricane Season, Say Colorado Forecasters
- Making a Federal Case Out of ‘Legal’ Marijuana Insurance Claims
- Travelers Adds Symantec Cybersecurity Services to Cyber Policies
- XL Catlin Names Swiss Re’s Bewlay as Global Chief Underwriter for Casualty
- New York Sees Its Cyber Rules for Insurers as Model for Other States
- Google Defends Employment Practices After U.S. Alleges Gender Pay Gap
- 5 Pending Supreme Court Cases New Justice Gorsuch Could Influence
- State Insurance Regulators Weigh Consumer Protections for Data Collection, Use
- ProPublica, Consumer Reports Hit Back, Cite ‘Errors’ in Industry Criticism of Their Auto Insurance Report
- Insurance Rates for Architects, Engineers Stabilize or Decline in 2016: Survey
- Chubb Names Gunter North America Commercial Chief to Succeed Retiring Pozzi
- QBE North America Names Attune’s Friesenhahn to Lead Multinational Unit
- Civil Rights Ruling Protecting Gay Employees Likely Headed to Supreme Court: View
- OSHA Delays Obama Silica Safety Standard for Construction Industry
- Trump’s FDA Chief Cites Opioid Epidemic As Top Priority
- U.S. Weather in March to Cost Insurers More than $2 Billion: Aon
- Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Sues Goodyear Over Asbestos Claims
- Hanover Stone Practice Aims to Control Workers’ Comp Costs
- On-Demand Insurance App Trov Grabs $45M Led by Munich Re/HSB Ventures
- Through the Roof: Drone Startup Cites Milestone of 6,000 Inspections
- 17 States Sue to Halt Trump Rollback of Climate Change Regulations
- IVANS Index: Commercial Rates Up in Q1 Except Workers’ Compensation
- Trump Administration to Delay Fiduciary Rule by 60 Days
- Expect Another Active M&A Year with Tech Gaining Interest, Says Conning
- Beazley Forms ‘Anything Lineslip’ for Hard-To-Place Professional Liability Risks
- I.I.I.: Why ProPublica Auto Insurance Report Is Inaccurate, Unfair and Irresponsible
- ProPublica Report Alleges Auto Insurers Overcharge Minorities
- Top 3 Causes of Global Liability Claims = 60% of Value: Allianz Report
- Commercial Lines Prices Inch Up After Being Down for Long Time: MarketScout
- Allstate Joins Firms Pulling Ads from ‘O’Reilly Factor’
- Proposed EPA Cuts Include Oil Spill, Lead Poisoning Prevention and Climate Research
- NAS Insurance Expands Cyber Coverage to Personal Lines Market
- Liberty Mutual’s Luce, BlueSky’s Hespe Join QBE North America Commercial Operation
- Wilson Named National Accounts Director for Big ‘I’ Professional Liability Program
- AIG Chairman Says Board Agrees with Outgoing CEO Hancock’s Turnaround Plan
- OSHA Orders Wells Fargo to Rehire Whistleblower, Pay $5.4 Million
- U.S. Supreme Court to Hear if Arab Bank Is Financially Liable for Terrorist Attacks
- UBS Analysis: Poor Morale Could Hurt AIG Turnaround, Hiring
- New QBE Program Targets Worker Safety in Transportation Market
- Home Depot Must Face Negligence Suit for Employee’s Murder: Court
- As Supreme Court Justice, Gorsuch Could Influence Trump Climate, Deregulation Agenda
- AIG Latest to Bring Cyber Insurance to Personal Lines High-Net Worth Clients
- PMA Companies Names Santulli President, Chief Operating Officer
- Hylant’s Timmel Joins Safety National to Lead Cyber Insurance Development
- Judge Allows Defamation Lawsuit by 2 Baseball Players Against Al Jazeera
- Republicans Now Eye Insurer Low-Income Subsidies They Sued to Halt
- Slice Labs Testing Pay-Per-Use Insurance App with Rideshare Drivers
- Insurers’ Use of Cell Tower Data to Deny Claims Comes Under Scrutiny
- April 1st Wrap-Up: Trump Forms Insurer; Epstein to AIG; Minute-by-Minute Insurance
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