Senior Drivers Open to Discussion About Limiting Driving: Survey June 24, 2014 There are currently more than 23 million licensed drivers aged 70 and older and as baby boomers soon begin turning...
FAA Drone Regulations Bar Hobbyists Near Airports, Crowds June 24, 2014 By Alan Levin To corral a surge in incidents of reckless, recreational drone use, the U.S. government barred flights of small unmanned aircraft...
Missteps Ongoing at West Virginia’s Freedom Industries June 24, 2014 By Jonathan Matisse For the West Virginia company that sullied 300,000 people’s drinking water to start the year, slip-ups like not reading emails...
Koh Joins Hong Kong’s Peak Re as Senior VP June 24, 2014 Peak Reinsurance Co. Limited, the Hong Kong based reinsurer, has appointed Kathleen Koh as senior vice president to underwrite credit...
Traders Wary of Metal Financing Risk in China’s Unregulated Warehouses June 24, 2014 By Melanie Burton and Fayen Wong Shaken by a fraud investigation into metal financing in the world’s seventh-busiest port, banks and trading houses have been made...
Latest Carlyle Financial, Insurance Equity Fund Raises $1 Billion June 24, 2014 By Greg Roumeliotis Private equity firm Carlyle Group LP said on Monday it had raised $1 billion for its second fund focused on...
Japan’s MS&AD Planning on Insurance Acquisitions for Growth in Southeast Asia June 24, 2014 By Komaki Ito MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings Inc., Japan’s largest non-life insurer, will seek acquisitions in Southeast Asia to expand its overseas business,...
Judge: Flawed Science Led to Murder-by-Arson Conviction in Pennsylvania Case June 24, 2014 By Michael Rubinkam The arsonist who killed Ji Yun Lee was especially cruel and calculating, dousing her small cabin in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains...
Treasury Chief Lew Backs Financial Regulators and Risk Designations June 23, 2014 By Ian Katz and Kasia Klimasinska U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew pushed back against Republican efforts to curtail the work of a council of regulators...
Validus to Buy Western World Insurance for $690M June 23, 2014 Validus Holdings said it has agreed to acquire specialty insurer Western World Insurance Group for $690 million in a deal...