Airline Pilots Hide Mental Health Struggles to Keep Flying December 3, 2025 By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Dan Catchpole Annie Vargas could see her son slipping away and pleaded with him to seek help. But her son, Brian Wittke,...
Germanwings Probe Urges Change for Pilots’ Medical Privacy, License-Loss Cover March 14, 2016 By Ania Nussbaum and Andrea Rothman Pilots would lose privacy protection for health records and airlines would need insurance when the employees lose their license under...
Costly Tianjin Blasts Have No Effect on Marine Reinsurance Prices: Carpenter January 8, 2016 Reinsurance rates in the marine sector continued to fall at the start of the year, in spite of the huge...
A.M. Best: Germanwings Crash May Put More Pressure on Aviation War Sector March 31, 2015 A.M. Best said the total insurance loss of Germanwings Flight 4U9525, which crashed in the French Alps on March 24,...
Allianz Estimates $300 Million in Claims for Germanwings Crash, Sources Say March 31, 2015 Germany’s Allianz has estimated insurers will pay $300 million in claims and costs stemming from the crash of a Germanwings...
Germanwings Crash Shows Need for Protections Against Suicidal Crew Members March 26, 2015 By Alan Levin and Mary Schlangenstein The suspected intentional destruction of a Germanwings jet by a pilot shows the need for new protections against suicidal crew...
Co-Pilot Likely Crashed Germanwings A320 Deliberately: French Prosecutor March 26, 2015 By Jean-Francois Rosnoblet and Tim Hepher The co-pilot of the Germanwings airliner that crashed in the French Alps killing all 150 people aboard appears to have...
Allianz Is Lead Underwriter for Crashed Germanwings Airbus A320 March 25, 2015 German insurer Allianz confirmed it was the lead insurance underwriter for the Airbus A320 plane which crashed in the French...