Viewpoint: Fiduciary Rule Fight Isn’t About the ‘Little Guy’ June 17, 2016 By Mark Miller The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants you to believe it is looking out for the little guy in its fight...
Supreme Court Limits Fraud Claims Against Federal Contractors June 17, 2016 By Lawrence Hurley The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday imposed some limits on the kind of fraud claims that can be brought against...
Legal Experts Expect Disney to Settle If Family Sues Over Alligator Attack June 17, 2016 By Lisa Richwine and Karen Freifeld June was supposed to have been a triumphant month for Walt Disney Co theme parks, with the flashy opening of...
Insurers Ignore FinTech Revolution at Their Long-Term Peril: PwC June 17, 2016 By L.S. Howard While 90 percent of insurers fear they will lose business to a FinTech start-up, only 43 percent say they have...
Smart Choice Agency Network Tops 5,000 Members June 17, 2016 By Andrew G. Simpson The Smart Choice Agents Program, which provides independent insurance agencies with access to personal and commercial lines markets in 41...
Judge Skeptical of Widow’s Claim Twitter Aided Terrorist Group ISIS June 16, 2016 By Kartikay Mehrotra A federal judge said he’ll probably dismiss a lawsuit against Twitter Inc. by the widow of a man killed at...
W.R. Berkley Taps Morgan Stanley’s Abbey for Strategy Post June 16, 2016 By Katherine Chiglinsky W.R. Berkley Corp., the Greenwich, Connecticut-based commercial insurer, named former Morgan Stanley investment banker Jared Abbey as senior vice president...
RLI’s Dunn Named Carolina Casualty CEO June 16, 2016 W. R. Berkley Corp. has appointed David A. Dunn as president and chief executive officer of its trucking insurance specialist,...
How Much Teen Drivers Add to Parents’ Auto Insurance Bill by State June 16, 2016 Teenagers are risky drivers who are very expensive to insure but rates for insuring teens have come down, according to...
As On-Demand Economy Grows, Professor Sees New Kind of Capitalism Emerging June 16, 2016 By Justin Fox, Bloomberg Opinion It goes by many names: the “sharing economy,” the “gig economy,” the “on-demand economy.” Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New...