What El Niño Means for the Coming Winter in U.S. September 2, 2015 By Brian K. Sullivan How the weather plays out in the next six months will have a lot to say about the California drought,...
Drivers Convicted, Jailed for Crashes Now Blamed on Car Defects September 2, 2015 By Jeff Green and Margaret Cronin Fisk Lakisha Ward-Green spent three months in jail after she lost control of her Chevrolet Cobalt, killing her teenage passenger. Last...
66% of Small Businesses Lack Business Interruption Coverage: Survey September 2, 2015 Nearly 75 percent of small businesses say they don’t have a disaster recovery plan in place. For companies with fewer...
Treasury Increases Main Street America’s Surety Bond Capacity to $93.4 Million September 1, 2015 The U.S. Department of the Treasury has raised The Main Street America Group’s NGM Insurance Company’s single surety bond capacity...
U.S. Eyes China, Russia Sanctions Over Cyber Attacks September 1, 2015 By Arshad Mohammed, Mark Hosenball and Matt Spetalnick The United States is considering sanctions against both Russian and Chinese individuals and companies for cyber attacks against U.S. commercial...
P/C Insurance Industry’s Low Unemployment Rate Likely to Go Lower September 1, 2015 The insurance sector has been hiring all year and appears on track to continue to add personnel. The Bureau of...
Reinsurance Price Drops Moderating? Yes and No, Say Rating Agencies September 1, 2015 By Mark Hollmer Two of the property/casualty insurance industry’s ratings entities – Fitch and Standard & Poor’s – do not see eye-to-eye on...
Asset Managers Urged to Make Cyber Risk Top Priority September 1, 2015 By Ross Kerber and Simon Jessop Investors are being poorly served by a haphazard approach from fund managers to the growing threat of cyber crime damaging...
Shopping, Banking from Car Dashboards Opens Door to Identity Theft September 1, 2015 By Keith Naughton and Olga Kharif Hackers can already take control of a car. And as vehicles become rolling shopping malls, cybercriminals will have an opportunity...
Business Owners Failing to Plan for Unexpected Events: Study August 31, 2015 Many business owners think they are good decision makers but they fail to address essential long-term business planning that is...