Latest Aerospace Headlines
All the headlines from our Aerospace Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Boeing Named as Defendant in Greek Air Crash Lawsuit
Feb 22 2006 // The law firm of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP, announced that, in cooperation with the Cyprus-based law firm of Phoebus, Christos Clerides, N. Pirilides & Associates, that families of victims of the...
Hallmark Acquires Aerospace Holdings
Jan 4 2006 // Fort Worth, Texas-based Hallmark Financial Services Inc. has completed its previously disclosed acquisition of Aerospace Holdings LLC. According to Hallmark, Aerospace Holdings, through Aerospace Insurance Managers Inc....
Hallmark Financial Services to Acquire Aerospace Holdings
Dec 14 2005 // Fort Worth, Texas-based Hallmark Financial Services Inc. has executed a definitive agreement to acquire Aerospace Holdings LLC. Aerospace, through various wholly-owned subsidiaries, including Aerospace Insurance Managers...
NOAA Meteorologists Predict ‘Strong Likelihood’ of October Hurricane
Sep 28 2005 // There is a strong likelihood another hurricane will occur in October and the most likely landfall will be Florida and Gulf region, according to meteorologists with the Hurricane Research Division of the National Oceanic...
Airbus A380 Takes to the Air
Apr 28 2005 // The Airbus A380, the largest passenger airplane ever built, successfully took to the air in cloudless skies over the Southern French City of Toulouse yesterday, April 27, 2005. Pilots, engineers and ground crews reported...
One Dead Hedgehog + One Flock of Seagulls + One Airbus =’s $4.1 Million
Feb 2 2005 // Five insurance companies are set to recover 2.3 million euros ($3 million) from the French government, while Air France will collect 850,000 euros ($1.1 million) as the result of a court ruling in Marseille stemming from...
NOAA: U.S. Reported Tornadoes Reaches Record High
Dec 27 2004 // The total number of tornadoes reported in the United States reached a record high during the year 2004, surpassing the previous record by almost 300, according to officials at NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center in...
Changes at Global Aerospace – Aviva Exits, R&SA Decreases and Converium Ups Stake
Nov 29 2002 // Global Aerospace Underwriting Managers (GAUM), the world’s largest managing agent in the aviation market, is undergoing major changes. Aviva and Royal & Sun Alliance both announced that they will drastically...
XL Capital Renames Aerospace Operations
Sep 25 2002 // Bermuda’s XL Capital Ltd. announced that its space and aviation operations, previously part of Brockbank Insurance Services, Inc., will now “be operating under the trade name of XL Aerospace, a division of XL...
Global Aerospace to Offer Insurance for Eclipse 500 Jet Owners
Jul 26 2002 // Eclipse Aviation Corporation, manufacturer of the Eclipse 500 jet, will partner with Global Aerospace, the world’s largest aerospace insurance underwriter, to provide aircraft hull and liability insurance to owners...
AIG Wants End to FAA’s War-Risk Coverage for Airlines
Mar 11 2002 // Maurice Greenberg, chairman and CEO of American International Group Inc., has undertaken efforts to persuade the Federal Aviation Administration to stop providing war-risk insurance for ground damage to U.S. airlines,...
AIG Asks FAA to End Provision of War-Risk Coverage to U.S. Airlines
Feb 27 2002 // AIG is putting pressure on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to cease providing war-risk insurance to U.S. airlines with hopes of substituting FAA coverage with its own insurance program, as first reported in the...
SAFECO Taps Former NASA Official to Lead Government Relations
Feb 14 2002 // SAFECO named Ed Heffernan, an executive with extensive federal government experience, as vice president of Government Relations. In his new position, Heffernan, 38, manages SAFECO’s nationwide legislative agenda and...
NASA Study to Dissect Hurricanes
Aug 16 2001 // As the country gears up for hurricane season, researchers from the Convection And Moisture EXperiment (CAMEX) are getting ready to conduct an in-depth study of the storms by meeting them head-on. CAMEX is the fourth in a...
Singapore Insurer Sues Boeing Over SilkAir Crash
Dec 18 2000 // Singapore Aviation & General Insurance Co. filed a complaint in Federal District Court in New York to recover damages from Boeing and several other companies it claims to be responsible for the 1997 crash of a Silk...
