National News for April 2015
- Mayweather-Pacquiao Boxing Match Tests Media Copyright
- El Amrani Awarded Matt Wells Producer School Scholarship
- Virginia Agency Owner Earns Wells Producer Scholarship
- Assurant to Exit Employee Benefits, Health Insurance
- Supreme Court: EEOC Must Try Conciliation with Businesses Before Litigation
- Beazley Adds Hiscox’s Dunlavy to Medical Team in Atlanta; Also Schoenthal
- Bitcoins: The Next Cyberinsurance Risk?
- SASSI Introduces Online Insurance Option for Electrologists
- Farmers Sued by Female Employee Attorney for Alleged Discrimination
- Esurance Becomes Baseball’s Exclusive Auto Insurance Partner
- Shareholders Sue Trinity Over Guardrail Safety Disclosure
- Automakers Frustrated Consumers Ignore Recall Repairs
- RIMS Report: What Risk Managers Expect from Their Insurance Brokers
- Marsh Launches Cyber Risk Assessment Services
- Could New Insurance Players Disrupt the Market?
- Ironshore International Forms Lead Umbrella Consortium for U.S. Companies
- Supreme Court to Hear Case on Limiting Consumer Lawsuits
- Hartford Reports Profit Declined in Q1
- FSOC’s Woodall Warns of ‘Inappropriate’ Global Influence On U.S. Policy
- Insurers’ Payments to Reduce Players’ Benefit from NFL Concussion Deal
- Muted Public Reaction Could Speed Up Commercial Drones
- Top 5 States for Vehicle Thefts with Keys Left Inside
- How the Age of Autonomous Vehicles Will Evolve
- Severe Winter Weather Affected Chubb Q1 Results
- IRS Weighs Rules on Hedge Fund Managers’ Use of Reinsurance
- House, Senate Committees Pass Trade Authority Bills
- Earth Day, Climate Change and Drought
- White Mountains Invests $13M in Title Insurer, OneTitle
- Buckeye’s Haines Becomes AAIS Chairman; Motorists’ Kaufman Elected to Board
- Karon Joins TigerRisk Partners as Vice Chairman
- House Passes Cyber Threat Sharing Bill
- Big ‘I’ Recognizes Top Young Agent, States in Political Fundraising
- Court Approves NFL’s Concussion Injury Settlement
- ACE’s Greenberg Cautions on Pricing, Growth Pressures
- ‘Hungry’ Insurers Continued to Cut Commercial Prices in Q1: CIAB
- Judge Challenges Legality of U.S. Taking Over AIG During Bailout
- House Expected to Pass Cyber Threat Sharing Bill Today
- The Hartford Names Bromage as Chief Marketing Officer
- 5 Years After Gulf Oil Spill: Is Drilling Engineering Outpacing Safety Again?
- Greenberg May Have Advantage with Judge Deciding AIG Bailout Challenge
- Public Corruption Probe Targets Trinity Guardrails, Federal Highway Agency: Sources
- Compare.com CEO’s Vision for the Future – Right or Wrong
- Judge to Hear Closing Arguments in Greenberg’s Case Against AIG Bailout
- Low Interest Rates ‘Destroying’ Insurance Companies: BlackRock
- The Hartford Names Robinson General Counsel
- Travelers CEO Fishman: Q1 Results ‘Encouraging Start’ to Year
- Insurers Urge Faster OK for Drones in Disaster Response
- How to Manage Risk of Valuable Properties Concentrated in Coastal Areas
- ACE Expands Liability Coverage for Assisted Living, Long Term Care Facilities
- Duffy Takes Helm at Canopius in U.S.; Bird, Fowles Promoted
- Pfizer Wins First of 1,000 Suits Claiming Antidepressant Zoloft Link to Birth Defects
- Patriot National Buys Software Firm, Vikaran, and India Development Unit
- Alpha Natural Facing Big Insurance Buy for Abandoned Mines Shortfall
- XL Group Introduces New Environmental Excess Policy Form
- Judge Agrees to Hear Opponent of NCAA $75M Concussion Settlement
- Bottom Line: Gulf Oil Spill Isn’t an Environmental Disaster
- Independent Agents Identify Business Opportunities for Carriers: Survey
- Obama, Insurers Welcome Bipartisan Trade Authority Measure
- WikiLeaks Publishes Stolen Sony Emails, Documents
- EEOC Issues Rules for Employee Wellness Program Incentives
- Former Northwest Airlines CEO Steenland Named AIG Chairman
- Greenberg Denied Bid to Dismiss New York AG Fraud Suit
- Target to Pay MasterCard Banks $19M to Settle Data Breach Claim
- It’s Insurance Buyers’ Market Now But Risk Challenges Ahead: Willis
- AIG Invests in Cybersecurity, Investigations Firm, K2 Intelligence
- Judge Upholds GM Liability Shield from Some Ignition Claims
- K&K Insurance Launches Off-Track Coverage for Motorsports
- Obama Labor Rule Would Shift Legal Duty of Retirement Plan Brokers
- What Insurance Agents Want from Carriers
- Liberty Mutual Inks Deal as U.S. Soccer Federation Sponsor
- IRS Names Microcaptives as Top Abusive Tax Scheme
- Obama Likely to Veto Republicans’ Estate Tax Repeal Bill
- Hackers, Spies Hired to Fight Cyber Attacks
- How 10% of S&P Firms ‘Reform’ Taxes on Their Own
- Video Ads Next Big Thing in Ridesharing?
- Hot Insurance Markets for 2015
- Schinnerer Unveils New Architects & Engineers Professional Liability Form
- Departure of MetLife’s Wheeler Surprises Analysts
- Study Reveals Extent, Nature of Health Data Breaches
- Marsh Rebrands STARS Unit as ClearSight, Integrates Real-Time Analytics
- AmWINS Announces HPR/Engineered Risk Practice
- How Media Portrayals Influence Workers’ Compensation Fraud
- Pearce Joins Trade Group AIA as Tax Policy Director
- Most Cyber Attacks Due to Trick Emails, Errors, Not Sophisticated Hacking
- Nonstandard Auto Insurance Market Is Not For Everybody
- Great American Expands Capacity for Pollution Products
- U.S. Judge Upholds Liability of Arab Bank for Terrorist Financing
- Pfizer Refutes Claims of Zoloft Link to Birth Defects
- Vertafore, Microsoft Partner to Provide Agents Access to Dynamics Platform
- J.H. Blade Launches Pollution Response Service for Energy Risks
- Investor Panel Eyes Improved Online Background Checks of Financial Professionals
- AIG Names Kaiser’s Brady to New Post as Chief Technology Officer
- Why Homeowners Should Worry Despite ‘Calm’ Hurricane Forecast
- How Another Country’s Insurance Industry Is Facing Climate Change
- Calm Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast Due to Cooler Seas, El Nino
- 10 Most Common and Costliest Small Business Claims
- USI Insurance Services Launches Builder’s Risk Program
- Chance of El Nino Now Up to 70%, Says U.S. Climate Center
- IMCA Calls for Nominees for Marketing Innovation Award
- Business Travelers Driving Uber Growth
- Insurers Tracking Fitness: Too Accurate for Comfort?
- Ex-Massey Mine CEO: ‘I Don’t Want to Go to 100 Funerals’
- Feds Seek Unified Approach with Insurers to Cyber Threats
- Buchan Joins JLT Specialty’s Construction Practice; Lu Joins Environmental
- Main Street America Names Osman to Office of Assistant Secretary
- Insurers AIG, USAA Receive OK to Test Use of Drones
- How to Improve Insurance Industry Ethics
- Spring Forecast Warns of Severe Thunderstorms, Hail, Tornadoes
- Norman-Spencer Adds Auto Dismantler Program
- How Analytics Technology Can Help Speed Integration Post-Merger Deal
- Employers’ Shift to Private Health Exchanges May Cost Employees More
- Surprising Number of Cyber Attacks Aim to Destroy, Not Steal
- U.S. Issues ‘Urgent’ Oil Train Safety Recommendations
- ProSight Specialty, NABCEP to Offer Program for Certified Solar Professionals
- Ryan Specialty Group Launches New MGU Windward Specialty
- Supreme Court Reviews $1.75B Ruling for Bombing Victims Against Iran Bank
- Insurance Industry Says Cyber Threat Database Needed
- AIG Sued by Pimco Over Swaps, Subprime Losses
- Boy’s Jeep Fire Death Results in $150M Verdict Against Fiat Chrysler
- Vertafore Names Hawn CEO, Chairman; NetVU Elects Savino Chairman
- IBM’s ‘Internet of Things’ Unit to Offer Insurers Online Data Service, Analysis
- Storm Surge Alerts to Begin on Atlantic Coast This Hurricane Season
- ISO Introduces Endorsements to Address Ridesharing Policy Gaps
- Mental Health in Workplace: Employee’s Privacy vs. Employer’s Right to Know
- Confie Seguros Acquires 3 East Coast Brokerages
- Parker Named President of Markel Specialty, Succeeding Thompson
- BB&T Ups Stake in AmRisc Agency, Divests Insurer American Coastal
- AIG Aims to Sell Plane Leasing Firm AerCap for $4 Billion
- U.S. Threatens Economic Sanctions Against Cybercrimes, Spying
- Freedom Specialty, IPISC to Offer Intellectual Property Insurance Products
- Allianz Completes Sale of Fireman’s Fund Personal Lines to ACE
- Mercer’s Garg Returns to AIG as CEO of Personal Insurance
- New MGA Backed by CGSC Offers Miscellaneous E&O
- What Agents Should Know About Flood Insurance Changes in Effect April 1
- ICAT Launches Special Purpose Lloyd’s Syndicate for Mid-Sized U.S. Risks
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