July 12, 2010
Police across Tennessee are writing few citations under the year-old texting-while-driving law. The statute went into effect in July 2009, allowing officers to write tickets to drivers they catch sending cell phone text messages while operating vehicles. The fine for …
July 12, 2010
Bermuda-bsed PartnerRe Ltd. announced that Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Albert Benchimol will leave the Company, effective December 31, 2010. He has served as EVP & CFO since he joined PartnerRe in 2000. In 2007, he took on …
July 12, 2010
A 78-year-old Washington Township woman has been awarded $1.2 million for burns and permanent scars suffered while she was a patient at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital. Valerija Milosevic was awarded the money by a Macomb County Circuit Court jury on …
July 12, 2010
The death of a woman thrown from a hay wagon during a ride at a county fair has opened a debate over whether there should be improvements to Kentucky laws on farm equipment safety. Dale Dobson, head of the Farm …
July 12, 2010
The Berne Union* closed its recent biannual meeting in Helsinki Finland on a tone of cautious optimism for global trade and investment. The Union’s bulletin pointed to “a resurgence in credit insurance capacity and a leveling off from the surge …
July 12, 2010
Aon Corp. has agreed to buy human resource consulting firm Hewitt Associates in a deal worth $4.9 billion. Aon intends to integrate Hewitt with its existing consulting and outsourcing operations, Aon Consulting, and operate the segment globally under the newly …
July 12, 2010
Anadarko Petroleum Corp., which owns 25 percent of the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico, has told BP Plc that, for now, it will not pay a $272 million bill from the British oil company to cover clean-up costs. …
July 12, 2010
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. was sued by Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. for fraudulently misleading it into buying preferred stock of mortgage financier Fannie Mae that would become “virtually worthless.” In a lawsuit filed last Thursday in Boston federal court, Liberty …
July 12, 2010
In a joint announcement from London and Atlanta, Swett & Crawford and Cooper Gay, the London-based independent wholesale, reinsurance and specialist retail insurance broker, announced that they have completed the combination of the two firms [See IJ web site – …
July 12, 2010
Munich Re has provided the Massachusetts Property Insurance Underwriting Association (MPIUA) with a $ 96 million catastrophe bond issuance that “transfers hurricane risk in Massachusetts to the capital markets,” said the reinsurer’s announcement. “Munich Re acted as joint lead manager …