High-Tide ‘Nuisance’ Flooding to Continue to Grow and Plague U.S. Communities: NOAA July 16, 2020 Coastal communities in the U.S. continued to see record-setting high-tide flooding last year, forcing their residents and visitors to deal...
P/C Insurance Agency M&A Deals Down 12% in First Half of 2020: Optis July 15, 2020 There were 288 announced insurance agency mergers and acquisitions during the first half of 2020, down from 328 in 2019,...
Chubb Appoints The Council’s Fielding as Government Affairs General Counsel July 15, 2020 Insurer Chubb announced the appointment of John Fielding as senior vice president, general counsel, Global Government and Industry Affairs. In...
CoreLogic Meets with Investors Cannae, Senator About Their Acquisition Bid July 15, 2020 By Scott Deveau CoreLogic Inc. met with two of its investors for the first time Tuesday to discuss their $7 billion proposal to...
Profit-Driven Automakers Race to Next Level of Not Quite Self-Driving Cars July 15, 2020 By Ben Klayman and Paul Lienert Autopilot, ProPilot, CoPilot: Automakers have many names for new systems that allow for hands-free driving, but no safety or performance...
East Coast’s Insured Loss From Tropical Storm Fay to Tally Near $400 Million: KCC July 15, 2020 The insured loss from Tropical Storm Fay will be close to $400 million, according to catastrophe risk modeling firm Karen...
Safety Probe Cites Mistakes by First Officer, Pilot in 2019 Amazon Cargo Plane Crash July 15, 2020 By David Shepardson The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) cited cockpit mistakes by the first officer and pilot in a February 2019...
Federal Judge Rejects Weinstein’s $18.9 Million Sex-Abuse Settlement July 15, 2020 By Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg A federal judge won’t give preliminary approval to a proposed $18.9 million settlement between Harvey Weinstein and nine women who...
How Coronavirus Pandemic Has Disrupted Both Millennials and Boomers July 15, 2020 By Dan Sewell Millennials, are taking a big hit — again. And boomers are not OK, either. Sometimes at odds, America’s two largest...
Next Showdown in Congress: Protecting Workers vs. Protecting Employers in Pandemic July 14, 2020 By Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News and Melissa Bailey, Kaiser Health News Congressional leaders are squaring off over the next pandemic relief bill in a debate over whom Congress should step up...