The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that foreign corporations cannot be sued in American courts for human rights abuses overseas, refusing to revive a lawsuit claiming Jordan-based Arab Bank Plc helped finance militant attacks in Israel and the Palestinian …
British laboratory tests on the fire safety of building materials are inadequate, research for the insurance industry in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire showed on Wednesday. At least 71 people died in the fire in the social housing …
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday gave its stamp of approval to a government review process prized by high technology companies as an easy and cheap way to combat “patent trolls” and others that bring patent infringement lawsuits. The justices …
A U.S. appeals court this week favored humans over animals in a novel copyright lawsuit filed over a series of entertaining selfies taken by a monkey with a toothy grin. U.S. copyright law does not allow lawsuits that seek to …
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s asset-management unit, which oversees $250 billion for insurers, said an economic slowdown in the U.S. is the biggest investment risk for the industry for the first time since the financial crisis. “Insurers expressed a growing consensus …
Brightway Insurance is continuing its expansion across the country with the opening of two new stores in Florida and South Carolina: Jeff Howard has opened Brightway, The Howard Agency in Charleston, S.C. Troy Novotny has opened Brightway, The Novotny Agency …
A traffic accident in southern North Korea has killed 32 Chinese tourists and four North Koreans, Chinese officials said Monday. Another two Chinese tourists were badly injured and were in ‘acutely serious condition,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. …
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region III and the West Virginia Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (WVDHSEM) hosted the first-ever West Virginia Flood Insurance Partners Roundtable in White Sulphur Springs, W.V. last month. According to a statement …
San Diego, Calif.-based Cavignac & Associates has named Kathy Majam a senior account manager within its personal lines department. Majam serves as the main contact for clients whose accounts she has been assigned, she processes new and renewal policies, prepares …
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, a conspiracy of 19 men hijacked four planes departing from three different cities. The two planes that departed from Boston were flown, with 17 minutes of one another, into the two towers of …
