National News for October 2015
- Marsh Enhances D&O Difference in Conditions Coverage
- Ace Private Risk’s Courtemanche Joins Boston’s Risk Strategies Co.
- Crime Jumps When Clocks Turned Back: Study
- AIG Has Been Mulling Sale of Mortgage Insurance Unit: WSJ
- Economics of Climate Change, Climate Fiction and Climate Control
- Allstate Names Green as President of Encompass Insurance
- Call for Splitting AIG a Challenge to CEO Hancock
- Commercial Insurance Rates, Except Auto and Flood, Still Falling: CIAB
- Budget Deal Called ‘Devastating’ to Crop Insurance
- Atlantic Hurricane Season Enters Final Stretch with No-Hit Record Intact
- High-Tech Weather Forecasters Still Rely on Old-Fashioned Balloons
- Activist Paulson Joins Icahn’s Call to Break Up AIG
- Top Insurance Lobbyists on Capitol Hill
- Target Markets Study: Program Business Revenue Doubled in 5 Years
- IBM to Buy Weather Co.’s Business, Web Properties to Expand Watson
- Investor Icahn to AIG: Break-Up P/C, Life, Mortgage Units Now
- Marsh Says It’s ‘On Track’ After Q3 Results
- House Votes to Extend Transportation Funding, Railway Safety Deadline
- Sen. Warren Criticizes Legal ‘Kickbacks’ to Annuity Sales Agents
- Ace Sells $5.3 Billion of Bonds for Chubb Deal
- What Are Chances a U.S Business Will Face an Employee Lawsuit?
- Outlook for Homeowners Insurance Market Improves: Aon
- Ace Group $5.3 Billion Bond to Help Finance $28.3 Billion Acquisition of Chubb
- The Hartford Earnings Fall in Q3
- House Advances Export Import Bank Bill
- AIG Seeks $2 Billion in Case Against Life Settlements Firm
- Injury Claims Become Commodities with Litigation Funding, Claim Aggregation
- CoreLogic Report: ‘Windy City’ Not the Windiest City
- Hiscox USA Names Wong as National Broker Manager, Bailey as Southwest Executive
- PivotPoint Analytics Launches Cyber Risk Assessment Product
- Using Hands-Free Technology While Driving Is ‘Surprisingly’ Risky: AAA Research
- Swiss Re America’s Donnell to Succeed Klingel as NCCI CEO
- House May Attempt to Revive Export-Import Bank
- Judge Dismisses Facebook Tracking Suit; Finds No ‘Realistic Harm’
- Volkswagen Wants 350 Diesel Fraud Claims Consolidated
- Erie Indemnity CEO Cavanaugh to Retire at End of 2016
- Philadelphia Insurance Launches Integrated Technology Product
- Everest National’s Koehler Named President of OneBeacon’s New Financial Institutions Unit
- Cyber Sharing, Liability Bill Makes Progress in Senate
- Auto Insurance Market to Shrink 60% by 2040: KPMG
- Chubb Shareholders Say No to Finnegan’s $80M Golden Parachute
- Chubb Shareholders Approve Merger with Ace
- Big ‘I’ Adds Webb to Capitol Hill Team
- Fine for Not Having Health Insurance Is Going Up
- A Wary Drone Industry Awaits Details of Registry
- Ace’s Greenberg Says Chubb Integration Will Take Years
- BHSI Adds New Leadership, Expands Executive, Professional Lines Offerings
- P/C Insurers Posted $31B Profit for 2015 1st Half, Highest 1st-Half Income Since ’07
- K&K to Partner with Producers to Provide New Program Business Markets
- Obama Administration Names Task Force to Create Drone Registry
- Senate Takes Up Cyber Liability Bill
- Sony Settles Employees’ Suit Over ‘The Interview’ Data Breach for $8 Million
- Travelers Insurance Sales, Underwriting Improve in Q3
- Climate Change Adds Billions to U.S. Hurricane Losses: Study
- Hanover CFO Greenfield Dies; CEO Eppinger Assumes Role
- Supreme Court to Hear Bids to Thwart Triple Damages in Patent Cases
- J&J Win in First Trial Against Tylenol Skirts Defective Design Claim
- Obama Administration Considers Drone Registry
- Reinsurers See Further Price Declines for 2016 in Wake of Mergers
- Zurich Taps SecurityScorecard for Third Party Risk Evaluation, Monitoring
- Unlike Uber, On-Demand Office Service Cleans Up with Employees
- Argo Pro Launches Coverage for Investment Advisers, Mutual Funds
- OneBeacon Launches Liability Coverage for Film, Radio, Theater Industry
- Peretti Joins XL Catlin as Head of Broker, Client Management in Americas
- Appeals Court Rules Google Book Copying Is Legal ‘Fair Use’
- Obamacare Sets 2016 Enrollment Goal of 10 Million
- AIG Makes Leadership Changes at Commercial Insurance
- Farmers Insurance Facing Possible Class Action by ‘Hundreds’ of Female Attorneys
- Climate Change Means Wildfire Seasons May Continue: Professor
- Lockton Names VanOpdorp as Chief Analytics Officer; Adds Moitoso as SVP Analytics
- CNA Names Aguinaga Chief Human Resources Officer
- Supreme Court Weighs When an Offer Ends Class Action
- With El Nino Warming, Talk Turns to Cool La Nina
- Comparing Mutual to Stock Insurers Is Like Comparing Marathoners to Sprinters
- Ascinsure Specialty Risk to Offer All-Lines Crane, Scaffold Programs
- Energi Launches Workers’ Compensation Triage Program
- ProPublica, NPR: Inside Corporate America’s Campaign to Ditch Workers’ Comp
- IronHealth Launches Hospital, Health System Liability Policy
- Hamilton USA CEO Ward Resigns
- Democratic Presidential Candidates Oppose Obamacare’s ‘Cadillac’ Tax
- Republican Jeb Bush Offers Health Plan with ‘Cadillac’ Tax
- Professor Steers Driverless Car Programmers Toward Ethical Questions
- Hostile Environment Liability Protection Program Adds Intelligence Panel
- New Insurance Policy Protects Homebuyers’ Down Payment
- CAMICO Launches Cyber Risk Program for CPA Firms
- Surplus Lines Insurance Sees Moderate Growth Thus Far in 2015
- Why It’s Important for Agents to Offer Consistent ‘Touchpoints’ for Clients
- Nonmedical Opioid Use Declines But Prescription Disorders, Deaths Rise: JAMA
- Businesses Aren’t Alone in Worrying About Cyber Risk
- Gunmakers’ Liability Shield Emerges as Issue in Democratic Presidential Race
- Personal Chef Association Launches Expanded Liability Coverage
- NIF Group Launches Bowling Center Program
- Drugs Prices Much Higher in U.S. Than in Other Countries: Research
- HealthCare.gov Enhances Customer Privacy Features As 2016 Enrollment Nears
- A.M. Best Trend: Negative Insurer Ratings Outnumber Positive in 2015 First Half
- What’s Driving Surplus Lines Insurance Growth?
- U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Approves Quebec Oil Train Crash Settlement
- BHSI Launches Professional Liability, Network Security and Privacy Policies
- Ex-Senator Nelson to Exit NAIC Leadership Post
- Current El Nino Strengthening But Its Ranking Will Have to Wait
- A Guide to New Car Safety Technologies
- New Car Safety Features Can Be ‘Turn-Off’ for Confused Drivers
- Fraud Class Action Claim Filed Against Fantasy Sports Sites
- Massey Mines Alerted Workers When Safety Inspectors on Site: Testimony
- PIA National Installs Officers Hansen, Blackwell, Russell, Savino
- Now, Volkswagen’s Injury Reporting Being Questioned
- Supreme Court Deals Blow to Insider Trading Prosecutors
- Ironshore Launches Project-Specific Endorsements for Construction Segment
- Karen Clark & Company Updates RiskInsight Modeling Platform
- Consumer Agency Seeks to Limit Financial Firms’ Arbitration Clauses
- Vertafore to Launch Integrated Mobile App for Agents
- MHBT’s Henry Elected Chairman of The Council
- Congress Pressured to Extend Deadline for Railroad Safety Technology
- FAA Hopes to Send Message with $1.9 Million Penalty Against Drone Photographer
- If Auto Injury Claims Frequency Is Falling, Why Are Claims Costs Rising?
- Credit Firm Experian Dealing with Fallout from T-Mobile Customer Breach
- Assessing First-Half P/C Insurance Results: A.M. Best
- BP’s Oil Spill Settlement with Gulf States, U.S. Tops $20 Billion
- College Player Files $3M Claim with Lloyd’s for Drop in NFL Draft
- Agent Develops Coverage to Fill Gaps in Traditional Wind Insurance
- Parrot Bite? In-Law Woes? Whatever the Health Claim, There’s an Insurance Code
- QBE, Jorgensen & Co. to Offer Accountants Professional Liability Coverage
- Allied World Enhances Policy for Insurance Agents & Brokers
- Hub International Creates Specialty Program Subsidiary; Hires Treanor to Run
- QBE Names Allianz’s Grote SVP, P/C Commercial Lines
- Insurers Say Trans-Pacific Pact Important for Industry Growth, Jobs
- Supreme Court to Hear Eurail Case on Foreign Entity Liability
- Crisis Services Top Insurers’ Cyber Claims Payouts; Average Claim at $674K
- General Star to Combine Contract P&C, E&O Divisions Into Program Unit
- Big ‘I’ Agents Install Louisiana’s Lanoix as Chairman
- Supreme Court Term Could Be Big for Business
- Markel Launches Captive Agents, Broker-Dealers Coverage, Adds Product Leaders
- IICF Week of Giving About Helping, Hope and the Future Starts Oct. 10
- Consolidated Agency Partners, iPrevision to Offer Cyber Risk Management Services
- Zurich Names Horgan CEO of Global Corporate Business in North America
- Morgan Stanley Among Employers Shifting Job Bias Claims to Arbitration
- If MetLife Is Tagged As Systemically Risky, Why Isn’t Berkshire Hathaway?
- Greenberg Endorses Jeb Bush
- Insurance Company Investors Assess Hurricane Joaquin Damage
- Confie Acquires Alabama, New York, Florida Brokers
- Watchdog Says Corporations Say One Thing, Do Another on Climate Change
- 13 Specialty Insurers Emerging As Takeover Targets: S&P
- ACE-Chubb Deal Clears Antitrust Hurdle
- Major Hurricane Joaquin Could Hit East Coast
- Surging Verisk Analytics Added to S&P 500
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