January 8, 2015
Whole Foods Market has voluntarily recalled several sizes of assorted cookie platters due to undeclared nut allergens. The company said Tuesday that one illness has been reported. The platters sold at stores in Arizona, Southern California, Hawaii and Nevada have …
January 8, 2015
Two drivers for the ridesharing company Uber that Boise, Idaho officials say failed to have commercial transport service driver’s licenses but picked up passengers have been cited. City spokesman Mike Journee told KTVB-TV that code enforcement officers used the ride-hailing …
January 8, 2015
Vermont gets a grade of “A+” and California and North Carolina get grades of “F” in the annual report card on state insurance regulation issued by the free market think tank, The R Street Institute. The 2014 Insurance Regulation Report …
January 8, 2015
The nation’s coal mines set a record for the lowest number of on-the-job fatalities last year, with 16. The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration reported there were two fewer deaths than the previous low of 18 …
January 8, 2015
A federal appeals court has affirmed a lower court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit claiming the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for flood damage at the Grand Ole Opry in 2010. The Tennessean reports Gaylord Entertainment Co. appealed …
January 8, 2015
Six merger and acquisition announcements in the North American property/casualty insurance and reinsurance sectors in late 2014—and another global deal on the table—may herald a raft of deals in 2015, Fitch Ratings predicted. Fitch analysts took inventory of deals that …
January 8, 2015
Three crashes which have yet to be fully explained, involving the most modern airliners in the safest phase of flight, made last year the deadliest for air travel in almost a decade. The loss of two Malaysian Air Boeing Co. …
January 8, 2015
Large employers are increasingly putting an end to their most generous health-care coverage as a tax on “Cadillac” insurance plans looms closer under Obamacare. Employees including bankers at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and college professors at Harvard University are seeing …
January 8, 2015
A coalition of advocacy groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for public access to information on toxic chemicals released by the energy industry through hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and other forms of oil and gas drilling. Fracking involves the …
January 8, 2015
Qatar Re announced the appointment of Alastair Speare-Cole as Chief Underwriting Officer, effective, January 12, 2015. He joins from JLT Re, the world’s fourth largest reinsurance broker, where he served as CEO since 2012. Speare-Cole replaces Willi Schürch who is …