Bayer’s Strategy on Roundup Litigation Rests on EPA Glyphosate Finding May 17, 2019 By Tina Bellon Bayer AG plans to argue that a $2 billion jury award and thousands of U.S. lawsuits claiming its glyphosate-based weed...
5 More States Sue Purdue Over OxyContin Marketing May 17, 2019 By Erik Larson and Jef Feeley Purdue Pharma LP and its billionaire owners are being sued by five more states alleging the company’s aggressive marketing of...
Munich Re to Offer Coverage for Curv Digital Assets, Cryptocurrency May 17, 2019 Curv, a cloud-based institutional digital asset wallet service, has partnered with Munich Re to provide insurance protection of up to...
California’s New Climate and Sustainability Chief in Talks with Insurers May 16, 2019 By Don Jergler Michael Peterson has had about five months to come in and tackle what promises to be unique job. Peterson is...
Hartford to Close on $2.1 Billion Acquisition of Navigators on May 23 May 16, 2019 The Hartford said it has received all regulatory approvals needed to complete its acquisition of specialty insurer Navigators Group on...
Commercial Insurance Prices Were Up 3% Globally, 1.1% in U.S. in Q1: Marsh May 16, 2019 Average global commercial insurance prices increased 3% in the first quarter of2019, according to broker Marsh. This represents the sixth...
A.M. Best Warns of Ratings Downgrades If Terror Reinsurance Act Not Renewed May 16, 2019 Property/casualty insurers that have relied heavily on the federal terrorism reinsurance program face the risk of rating downgrades if the...
Musk Battles Defamation by Tweet Claim Brought by British Diver May 16, 2019 A British diver who is suing Tesla CEO Elon Musk for defamation can’t recover damages because the diver allegedly started...
U.S. Blacklisting of China’s Huawei to Disrupt Global Technology Supply Chain May 16, 2019 By Sijia Jiang and Michael Martina The latest U.S. broadside against Huawei that puts the Chinese firm on an exports blacklist threatens to rattle the global...
U.S. Delays Review of Spectrum for Vehicles to Communicate May 16, 2019 By David Shepardson Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on Wednesday delayed plans to begin in June a comprehensive review of a valuable...