The number of people killed in large-truck crashes increased for the fourth straight year, bucking a trend of overall improvement...
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Even as the Sony Corp. cyber attack laid bare the kinds of vulnerabilities that typically drive companies to buy insurance...
V3 Insurance Partners LLC has enhanced its workers’ compensation program, adding National Liability & Fire Insurance Co., a Berkshire Hathaway...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has launched the interim office of the Flood Insurance Advocate. The interim office will...
Bob Simpson, a meteorologist who co-developed the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale which estimates potential property damage, has died. Peg Simpson,...
The government wants BP Plc to pay $16 billion to $18 billion in water-pollution fines for the worst offshore oil...
Back-channel talks between Sony Pictures Entertainment and the White House to coordinate a response to a debilitating cyber-attack didn’t prevent...

McDonald’s Corp. wields enough control over its franchisees that it should be jointly responsible for the working conditions of their...
U.S. automobile recalls surpassed the 60 million mark for the first time in a single year, largely because of the...
Private auto insurance industry direct premiums written rose 5.13 percent in the third quarter of 2014, the largest third-quarter year-over-year...