Drugmakers Work on Safer Painkillers as Opioid Abuse Epidemic Rages July 2, 2013 By Samuel Adams Backed by a U.S. campaign to slow abuse of prescription painkillers, drugmakers are devising new forms of the medicines that...
New El Nino Warnings Could Help Farmers Withstand Drought, Floods July 2, 2013 By Alister Doyle Scientists have found a way to forecast El Nino weather events in the Pacific a year in advance, long enough...
Lawyers Feast on ‘Crazy’ BP Gulf Oil Spill Claims July 2, 2013 By Elizabeth Amon Until this year, Tampa attorney Kevin McLean specialized in suing nursing homes for neglecting patients. In January he switched the...
U.S. Property Cat Re Prices Down, Casualty Softening: Willis Re July 2, 2013 Reinsurers are taking “robust defensive measures to maintain market positions recently eroded by new capital markets entrants,” with prices down...
Security Analysts Warn About Terrorism Risk After Fukushima Meltdown July 2, 2013 By Jonathan Tirone Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, whose 2011 meltdowns dislocated 160,000 people, may provide a new blueprint for terrorists seeking to...
Cardoso Joins the Leavitt Group in Northern California July 1, 2013 The Leavitt Group’s Concord, Calif. office named Paul Cardoso as an account executive in the employee benefits division. Cardoso comes...
The Buckner Co. Taps Robbins in Utah July 1, 2013 Merrilee Robbins was named senior account executive in The Buckner Co.’s trucking insurance division. Robbins will work from the firm’s...
Swiss Re, Lloyd’s Among Insurers Probed by N.Y. on Iran Sanction July 1, 2013 By David McLaughlin and Greg Farrell Swiss Reinsurance Co. and Lloyd’s of London, the world’s oldest insurance market, are among insurance companies being probed by New...
Monarch Names McLeod Vice President in Southern California July 1, 2013 La Crescenta, Calif.-based Monarch E & S Insurance named Stefanie McLeod assistant vice president of personal lines heading up the...
N.Y. Senator Gillibrand to FEMA: Review Flood Insurance Rules July 1, 2013 U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to review rules that resulted in insurance coverage...