Fast-Growing Craft Brewers Slow to Adopt Workplace Safety July 15, 2013 By M.B. Pell Welder Mark Moynihan crawled down a narrow tube into a space the size of a car interior to seal the...
Total Cost of Risk Up As Market Firms: RIMS July 15, 2013 Businesses paid about five percent more in 2012 than they did in 2011 to cover the total cost of risk....
AIG Ex-Chief Greenberg Sues Spitzer for Defamation July 14, 2013 By Dan Levine Former American International Group Chief Executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg sued Eliot Spitzer on Friday, alleging the former New York governor...
MarketScout Expands Private Client Services, Hires New Executive Leadership July 12, 2013 MarketScout, the national electronic insurance exchange and specialty MGA with headquarters in Dallas, has expanded its nationwide specialty high-net-worth underwriting...
Some Victims Appeal Medical Benefits in BP Oil Spill Settlement as ‘Unfair’ July 12, 2013 By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Margaret Cronin Fisk The medical benefits portion of BP Plc’s settlement over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is “substantively unfair” and...
House Passes Republican Farm Bill Without Food Stamps July 11, 2013 By Alan Bjerga and Derek Wallbank House Republicans passed a five-year U.S. farm-policy bill that retains subsidies to farmers and strips out food-stamp spending, costing it...
Bipartisan Senate Megabank Bill Would Split Banking from Insurance, Other Risks July 11, 2013 A small bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Thursday introduced legislation that would break up Wall Street’s megabanks by separating...
PSDA Expands Firearm Coverage for Retired Law Enforcement July 11, 2013 The Public Servants Defense Agency (PSDA) has broadened coverage available to retirees allowed to carry firearms under the Law Enforcement...
Progressive Premium Revenue Climbs, Profit More Than Doubles July 11, 2013 By Megan Hickey Progressive Corp., the fourth- largest U.S. auto insurer, said profit more than doubled as premium revenue climbed after the company...
Top 10 U.S. Aircraft Insurers: SNL July 11, 2013 American International Group Inc. (AIG) has been reported to be the lead insurer for the recent Asiana Flight 214 tragedy...