Global Study Finds No Increased Lung Cancer Risk for Hard Metal Workers August 30, 2017 Workers in the hard metal industry are not at increased risk for lung cancer or any of 63 other potential...
Insurance Industry Opens Hurricane Harvey Disaster Relief Fund August 30, 2017 The nonprofit Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation (IICF) has established the IICF Hurricane Harvey Disaster Relief Fund to assist victims affected...
Insurers Deploy Drone Fleets to Speed Harvey Disaster Recovery August 30, 2017 By Karl Plume and Tim McLaughlin Fleets of commercial drones are primed to hover over the destruction from Tropical Storm Harvey in an unprecedented test of...
Rubik’s Cube Maker Puzzled by Toys ‘R’ Us Knockoff August 30, 2017 By Jonathan Stempel The Rubik’s Cube has delighted and confounded millions of players since Hungarian architecture professor Erno Rubik created it in 1974....
Now Is Time to Prepare for Next Harvey; Tools Are Available: Viewpoint August 30, 2017 By Paul J. Ferraro, Bloomberg View My heart goes out to the people who have borne the brunt of Hurricane Harvey and still face continued flooding...
Beazley Expands Coverage for Social Engineering, Online Fraud Scams August 30, 2017 Beazley has launched a new excess policy for the U.S. market that significantly expands the protection available to firms that...
S&P: Primary P/C Insurers, Not Reinsurers, to Bear Brunt of Harvey’s Insured Losses August 29, 2017 While it’s too early to accurately quantify the insured losses related to Hurricane Harvey, primary insurance carriers — as opposed...
P/C Insurers Lost $5.1 Billion on Underwriting in First Half of 2017: A.M. Best August 29, 2017 The U.S. property/casualty (P/C) industry recorded a net underwriting loss of $5.1 billion for the first six months of 2017,...
Abuse of Nursing Home Residents Often Goes Unreported August 29, 2017 By Ricardo Alonson-Zaldivar More than 1 in 4 cases of possible sexual and physical abuse against nursing home patients apparently went unreported to...
Harvey’s Insured Losses Hurt Insurers’ Stocks, Could Boost Reinsurers’ Prices August 29, 2017 By Tim McLaughlin and Tom Sims Hurricane Harvey’s whipsaw of wind and rain across Houston and the Texas Gulf Coast hurt the shares of U.S. property...