March 28, 2018
American International Group paid its new chief executive Brian Duperreault $43.1 million last year, a securities filing showed on Tuesday. AIG, which during the financial crisis faced questions over the compensation of former leader Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, had previously outlined …
March 28, 2018
Gov. Rick Scott signed legislation Monday requiring backup power sources in Florida nursing homes and assisted living facilities, months after the deaths of several residents from a sweltering nursing home that lost power in a hurricane. The legislation require the …
March 28, 2018
XL Catlin and RedSeal have partnered on a new approach to cyber insurance using an objective measurement of a network’s resilience to help underwriters evaluate their clients’ risks over time and help clients continue to improve their cybersecurity and potentially …
March 27, 2018
When Uber decided in 2016 to retire its fleet of self-driving Ford Fusion cars in favor of Volvo sport utility vehicles, it also chose to scale back on one notable piece of technology: the safety sensors used to detect objects …
March 27, 2018
The controversy surrounding the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica’s use of personal data harvested from social media accounts without the users’ permission is among the first of what likely will be a long series of public debates about how the …
March 27, 2018
A Kansas waterslide hyped as the world’s highest was a “deadly weapon” that had already injured more than a dozen people before a 10-year-old boy was decapitated on it in 2016, according to a grand jury indictment unsealed on March …
March 27, 2018
A meteorologist who aided emergency response efforts along the Gulf Coast after the 2010 oil spill has been tapped to lead the U.S. government’s hurricane forecasting hub in Miami. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that Kenneth Graham …
March 27, 2018
The Marine & Upstream Energy insurance team of Validus Specialty Underwriting Services, Inc. has partnered with Eagle Ocean America, a full-service insurance facility operated by Eagle Ocean Agencies, to offer new hull, liability and ancillary covers to serve U.S. vessel …
March 27, 2018
The American Dental Association, based in Chicago, wants dentists to drastically cut back on prescribing opioid painkillers. The association announced a new policy that “essentially says eliminate opioids from your arsenal if at all possible,” said Dr. Joseph Crowley, the …
March 27, 2018
Iowa-based Holmes Murphy has expanded Main Street, its captive insurance subsidiary built to give small businesses the same buying power as big corporations, to include businesses with 10 to 50 employees. Since its inception in 2014, Main Street has helped …