March 22, 2011
Texas agents who sell policies for the Texas wind insurance pool need to provide banking data to the association in order to begin receiving monthly direct deposit commissions. The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association has sent a second notice to agents …
March 22, 2011
Maryland lawmakers are weighing whether to prohibit insurers from using credit scores to rate auto policies — a move insurers say is a bad idea. The economic matters committee of the House of Delegates recently held an initial hearing on …
March 22, 2011
Federal safety officials have stopped recommending removal of all electrical wiring in homes with problem drywall, a change in the safety protocol that could reduce the cost of remediation for many homes. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and …
March 22, 2011
LeBron James studies statistics all the time. One in particular is jumping out at him these days. And it has nothing to do with basketball. James will help lead a new stay-in-school initiative being unveiled in Washington on Monday called …
March 22, 2011
A judge in Maury County, Tenn. has issued a restraining order stopping the selection of a cheerleading squad at Columbia Central High School because of a lawsuit alleging gender discrimination. The lawsuit was filed by sophomore Olivia Owens and her …
March 22, 2011
AXIS Capital Holdings Limited has issued a bulletin which estimates that the “total net impact of the New Zealand earthquake and loss events in Australia that have occurred to date in the first quarter of 2011 will be between $275-$315 …
March 22, 2011
The British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) released the key findings of its Future of Regulation research on Monday March 21 at a Parliamentary Reception in the House of Commons, to an audience of MPs, civil servants, Lords and the industry. …
March 22, 2011
Just over a week after the massive earthquake hit the sprawling Texas Instruments chip plant here, a gardener is reworking the Japanese garden in an inner courtyard of the office tower attached to the plant. The garden is a symbol …
March 22, 2011
The European Union is pressing China to relax restrictions on foreign ownership of its banks in order to gain wider access to the Chinese financial markets, the region’s Internal Markets Commissioner said on Tuesday. Michel Barnier, in Beijing for a …
March 22, 2011
Euler Hermes, the trade credit insurer of the Allianz Group, and China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co., Ltd. (CPIC Group), one of China’s largest insurers, announced that they “have combined their expertise to help Chinese companies to better manage trade credit …