April 30, 2024
Progressive Insurance isn’t just growing the number of policies it writes but aims to hire thousands to support several years of year-over-year growth, according to a media statement published in late April. “Progressive Insurance Continued Growth Leads to More Than …
April 30, 2024
Nearly all new passenger cars and trucks sold in the United States will be required to have automatic emergency braking systems by September 2029, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Monday, saying that the rule will save …
April 29, 2024
Home products retailer Williams-Sonoma will have to pay almost $3.2 million for violating a Federal Trade Commission “Made in USA” order. Williams-Sonoma was charged with advertising multiple products as being “Made in USA” when they were in fact manufactured in …
April 29, 2024
The Hartford CEO Christopher Swift told analysts late last week that the insurer’s first quarter results included “progress toward restoring targeted profitability in auto” as it turned in an improved combined ratio for the quarter of 103.9 in the line …
April 29, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear Elon Musk’s bid to throw out part of a securities fraud settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission restricting the billionaire businessman’s public statements about his electric car company Tesla. The …
April 29, 2024
Marsh, the insurance brokerage business of Marsh McLennan, announced an additional $25 million layer of capacity to its existing $100 million Cyber ECHO facility. Available to Marsh clients globally, Cyber ECHO now offers up to $125 million of excess cyber …
April 29, 2024
Additional tests of milk showed that pasteurization killed the bird flu virus, federal health officials said on Friday, as Colorado became the ninth U.S. state to report an infected dairy herd. Federal lawmakers urged the Biden administration to further contain …
April 29, 2024
Sixty-five percent of North American business leaders fear this election year will impact their ability to trade internationally, with 32% of U.S. leaders saying political risk is their number one threat. In January, Beazley surveyed over 3,500 business leaders in …
April 26, 2024
U.S. auto safety regulators said Friday they have opened an investigation into whether Tesla’s recall of more than 2 million vehicles announced in December to install new Autopilot safeguards is adequate. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it …
April 26, 2024
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s ban on “noncompete” agreements commonly signed by workers is likely vulnerable to legal challenges, experts said, as some courts have grown increasingly skeptical of federal agencies’ power to adopt broad rules. The commission in unveiling …