National News for July 2014
- Cat Modeler’s Sharknado Model Follows Campy SyFy Sequel
- Shrout Joins IFG Cos. as Managing Director – Bind
- Hartford’s Q2 Core Earnings Decline 38% to $144M; Net Loss Widens
- SCI Underwriting Management Launches Four New Products for Aging Service Industry
- Chemcial Plants with Terrroism Risk ‘Effectively Unregulated,’ Says Senate Report
- Allstate Q2 Profit Up 49%
- NLRB’s McDonald’s Ruling Raising Liability Concerns for Franchise Operators
- The Hartford Fires Executive After Comment on Herbalife
- House Votes to Proceed with Lawsuit Against Obama
- Insurers, Hospitals Enjoying Benefits of Obamacare
- Combined Group Launches Admitted Drycleaner Insurance Program
- Last Chance to Participate: Take the Market & Financial Survey Now
- Inaction on Climate Change Costs Economy: White House
- Most Electric and Small Cars Come Up Short in IIHS Safety Ratings
- AIG Ex-CEO Greenberg Faces January Trial in Loss Reserving Lawsuit
- Fireman’s Fund Names Low National Practice Leader for Admitted Excess
- Energi, HDI-Gerling America Extend Partnership for the U.S. Energy Industry
- Marsh Revenue Grew 7% in Q2
- NCAA Offers $70 Million to Settle Sports Concussion Suits
- Viewpoint: Systemically Risky Insurers Merit More Oversight But Not Bank Rules
- Total Cost of Risk for Businesses Rose 2% in 2013: RIMS
- Obesity Linked to Increased Fatigue in the Workplace
- Independent Agents Drawn to Tablet Applications: Channel Harvest
- Berkshire Specialty Enters Fiduciary Liability Segment, Hires Prussack as VP
- PIA National Names Webb to Counsel, Regulatory Affairs Post
- Primary-Enforced Texting Laws Save Drivers’ Lives: University Research
- Arthur J. Gallagher Names Jain Chief Service Officer
- Wal-Mart Must Share Documents on Mexico Bribery Probe: Court
- Hackers Pose High Terror Threat to U.S., Says 9/11 Panel
- With Premium Refunds in Process, Washington Criticism of Flood Insurance Ebbs
- Emergency Responder Mobile App Could Aid Communications During Disasters
- Chubb Q2 Profit Declines 14%
- Judge Approves NCAA’s $60 Million Video Game Settlement
- More Than 10 Million Adults Gain Health Coverage Since Obamacare Began
- Congress Urged to Help Miners with Black Lung Disease
- Hartwig Turns Back King Hammurabi’s Playbook on Resilience
- Are Storm Shutters Unsafe?
- Insurers Overemphasizing Digital Service Risk Alienating Customers: Bain
- 1 in 4 Young Adults Don’t Leave Home; Trend Expected to Rise
- Ascent Increases U.S. Medical Billings E&O Limits, Adds Reputational Harm Cover
- Liberty Mutual Launches Towing Program Through Trinity Transportation Services
- Supreme Court Could Get Obamacare Subsidies Question
- Big ‘I’ Group Names Cantor Ex-Aide Stewart to Capitol Hill Lobbying Team
- MetLife Designation as Systemically Important Expected Soon
- EEOC Spells Out How Disabilities Act Applies to Pregnant Workers
- Financial Firms Want More Time to Review U.S. Consumer Complaint Proposal
- Same Day, Different Court Obamacare Subsidies Upheld
- Travelers Posts $683M Q2 Profit, Misses Estimates as Catastrophe Losses Rise
- Court Orders Travelers to Pay $500M in Johns-Manville Asbestos Claims
- Court Rules Against Obamacare Subsidies for Federal Exchange Insureds
- CGS&C’s New MGA Targets U.S. Healthcare Industry with Lloyd’s
- Will BNP Deal Expand Whistleblower Protections in Banking, Insurance?
- Rep. Hensarling Blasts Export-Import Bank As ‘Special Privilege’
- SIAA Adds 204 Member Agencies in First 6 Months 2014
- AIG Chairman Miller Comments on Corporate Tax Rate, Succession and BofA Deal
- NFL Players Sue Own Union, Allege Concussion Conspiracy with Owners
- Best Takes Rating Actions on AXA Financial, Certain Subsidiaries
- Best Affirms Allianz Global Risks US Insurance Co. & Subs Ratings
- S&P Raises Liberty Mutual’s Ratings; Outlook Revised to Stable on NICO Deal
- GM Backs Ban on Renting Recalled Cars
- Judge Declares Mistrial in $1B Trinity Guardrail Case
- 16 States Face High Risk of Earthquakes
- Stanford Scheme Victims Not Eligible for Securities Coverage: Court
- Pet Insurer Trupanion Raises $71 Million in IPO
- Liberty Mutual Inks Reinsurance Deal with Berkshire’s National Indemnity
- Firms Dropping Birth Control Coverage Must Inform Employees
- Insured Losses From Hurricane Arthur Below $250 Million: RMS
- Chief Executive Insurance Services Launches Personal Director’s Liability Coverage
- Senate Passes TRIA Renewal with Broker Licensing Provision
- Automakers Race to Be First With Driverless Cars
- Fitch Forecasts Shrinking P/C Insurer Profits
- Computers at Growing Risk of Hijack by Botnet Viruses, U.S. Says
- Aon Launches Custom Liability Product for Railroad Industry
- Getting a Grip on Ridesharing Coverage
- NAIC Roadshow to Tout State Regulation to U.S., Foreign Policymakers
- Markel Appoints Smith as Chief Marketing Officer
- CFC Underwriting Launches Intellectual Property Product
- Insurance Journal Co-Sponsors MarshBerry Market & Financial Survey
- MarshBerry Acquires Capital Management Advisor Gill & Roeser in N.Y.
- Canada’s Onex to Buy York Risk Services for $1.3 Billion
- Aon Completes Acquisition of National Flood Services
- AIG Settles for $650M from BofA in Mortgage Securities Fraud Case
- House Lawmakers Say ‘Too Big To Fail’ Panel Too Secretive
- S&P Affirms Argo Group US & Operating Companies Ratings; Outlook Stable
- Schmitz to Head XL Group’s Global Property Risk Engineering
- Fireman’s Fund Names Bailey National Practice Leader in Property
- NAIC Hiring Consultant to Review Its Decision-Making, Governance
- Oil, Rail Firms Propose Phasing Out Old Tank Cars
- Hancock to Get $11.8 Million as Next AIG CEO
- LeBron James and Value of Celebrity Insurance Ads
- MGIS, Stevens & Lee Launch Malpractice Program for Bariatric Surgeons
- $1 Billion Highway Guardrail Trial Underway This Week
- Uber and Lyft Accelerate Cash Battle to Recruit Drivers
- Insurers in Dash for Expertise to Master Cyber Risk Insurance
- UFG Launches New Equipment Sales, Rental Product
- Lawson Named CEO of FM Global, Succeeding Subramaniam
- Oil Industry Releases Fracking Standards for Local Communities
- McClellan, McVicker Head New Zurich Contract Surety Teams
- Progressive Insurance Profit Down as Investment Gains Narrow
- Judge Allows $1B Malpractice Claim Against PwC Over MF Global Collapse
- House to Sue President Obama Over Healthcare Mandate Waiver
- House Committeee Approves Patent Reform Measure
- S&P Green Lighting Climate Risk Mitigation
- New Specialty Insurance Group to Target Sports, Entertainment Markets
- Liberty Mutual Expands Large, Global Property Risk Unit; Adds 5 Underwriters
- No El Nino Yet But Chances Remain High: U.S. Climate Center
- New Specialty Insurer SIG Targets Sports, Entertainment Risks
- 6.5 Million Homes from Maine to Texas at Risk for Storm Surge: CoreLogic
- Judge Dismisses Ex-Broker’s Privacy Claim Against Regulatory Website
- K&K Launches New Venue, Facilities Program
- Aspen U.S. Appoints Kotsiopoulos As Broker Relationship VP
- Chicken Producer, London Insurers Battle Over ‘Recall’ Definition
- Colleges Lack Training to Prevent Sexual Assaults: Senator
- Senate Advances Bill to Shield Firms Sharing Cyber Threats with NSA
- NCAA Recommends ‘Culture Shift’ of Reduced Contact in Football Practices
- Study Tracks Rise in Attorney Involvement in Auto Insurance Claims
- Why Conservatives’ Climate Policy Won’t Work: Flavelle
- Financial Firms Propose Cyber War Council
- Endurance Launches U.S. Commercial Property Retail Division
- Judge Approves NFL Concussion Settlement
- Willis Sees Catastrophe Bonds Setting Record This Year After Busy Q2
- Lloyd’s Underwriters Find Success with U.S. Subsidiaries: SNL
- Insurers’ Yield on Investments Lowest Since 1965
- P/C Insurers’ Profit Dipped in Q1
- Insurers Suspect Fraud, Sue Phillips Asbestos Trust
- Progressive Boosts Ad Spending But GEICO Still #1: SNL
- How Insurers Would Wind Down If Needed to Avoid Future Bailout
- Hurricane Arthur Prompts North Carolina Coast Evacuations, East Coast Flood Watches
- Small Firms Fear Gap in Trade Finance If Export Import Bank Closed
- Painkiller Prescribing Varies By State, Highest in South; Florida Reverses Trend: CDC
- Markel Now Underwriting Trade Credit Insurance in U.S.
- Klisura to Lead New Marsh Global Placement Team; Lang to Head U.S. Placement
- GEICO Appoints 5 to Officer Posts Across Country
- Swiss Re’s Klena Joins ACE North American Marketing, Communications Team
- Insurers See Rise in Severity of Lawyers’ Malpractice Claims: Ames & Gough
- Supreme Court to Decide UPS Workplace Pregnancy Accommodation Dispute
- Export-Import Bank Could Be Reformed Rather Than Closed
- Cybersecurity Analysts Stress Need for Data Sharing by Companies
- Markel Promotes Grinnan to General Counsel
- ACE Expands Life Sciences Coverage through Wholesale Division
- Court Tosses Liability Claims Against Painkiller Drugmakers
- Tower Group Falls As Doubts Rise Over ACP Re Deal
- Overselling the Costs, Benefits of Greenhouse Gas Regulations
- Google, Detroit Take Different Routes on Driverless Cars
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