Anglo-Australian Miner BHP Faces $6.3B Lawsuit in UK over 2015 Brazil Dam Disaster July 15, 2020 By Kirstin Ridley More than 200,000 Brazilian people and groups will next week kick off a 5 billion-pound ($6.3 billion) lawsuit against Anglo-Australian...
Hiscox Appoints Petrone as Senior Vice President Based in Manhattan July 15, 2020 Hiscox, the international specialist insurer, has appointed Adam Petrone as senior vice president and Northeast regional executive in the U.S....
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...
UK Watchdog Urges Big 4 Accounting Firms to Challenge Clients as Audit Quality Slides July 15, 2020 By Hugo Miller and Michael Kapoor The dominant accounting firms must do a better job of challenging their clients in order to reach a satisfactory level...
West African Coast Re-Emerges as Hotspot for Piracy, Kidnappings: Allianz July 15, 2020 By Elisha Bala-Gbogbo The West African coast has overtaken Southeast Asia as the worst area for piracy and kidnappings reported at sea last...
The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers Adds Kramer in Atlanta July 15, 2020 The Liberty Company Insurance Brokers has hired William Kramer to the firm’s Employee Benefits Division. Kramer has been in the...
Mississippi Mandates Masks in Parts of State as it Sees ‘Worst’ of COVID-19 Spread July 15, 2020 By Emily Wagster Pettus A mask mandate and other restrictions took effect Monday in 13 of Mississippi’s 82 counties as the state continues to...
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...