Actuaries Grapple with Insurance Questions on Self-Driving Cars May 16, 2014 By Casualty Actuarial Society The car of the future is pictured in an imagined scene in a 1950s science magazine. The illustration depicts a...
Protests Damaging Vietnam Industrial Zones Raise Investor Concerns May 16, 2014 By Nguyen Phuong Linh and Michael Gold Dexter Hsu spent Tuesday night barricaded inside his workers’ dormitory in Vietnam’s Binh Duong province. Tables were stacked up against...
Report Cites Crops Most Vulnerable to El Nino May 16, 2014 By Alister Doyle and Environmental Correspondent The El Nino weather phenomenon that is likely to strike this year will damage world maize, rice and wheat yields...
Carmakers, Regulators Looking Into Flaws in Air Bag Technology May 16, 2014 By Jeff Green, Jeff Plungis and Patrick G. Lee When Ford Motor Co. recalled 600,000 sport-utility vehicles last week, it became the fourth carmaker this year to acknowledge an...
Canada Imposes ‘Absolute Liability’ Rules on Pipeline Spills May 16, 2014 By Julie Gordon Canada unveiled new rules on Wednesday to enhance pipeline safety and spill response, ahead of the development of new projects...
Africa Launches First Catastrophe Risk Insurance Pool May 16, 2014 By Wendell Roelf In the 1980s images of skeletal Ethiopian babies and their parents, dying from hunger during a devastating famine, helped galvanize...
R.I. Issues Bulletin on Implementing Auto Insurance Verification System May 15, 2014 Rhode Island regulators recently issued a bulletin notifying the state’s auto insurers of their filing requirements and deadlines for the...
Willis Names Martens Human Capital Leader in Midwest May 15, 2014 Willis North America, a unit of Willis Group Holdings, named Gregory Martens as executive vice president and human capital practice...
Some N.J. Lawmakers Question Transparency of Sandy Recovery Programs May 15, 2014 Some New Jersey lawmakers used a hearing Monday to complain that Gov. Chris Christie is not living up to his...
Texas Panhandle Fire Displacements To Return Home May 15, 2014 About 2,100 Texas Panhandle residents evacuated for days because of a wildfire are scheduled to return to their homes. Texas...