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Southwest Pilots Sue Boeing for Lost Pay, Legal Costs Over ‘Rush’ Sale of 737 Max
Oct 8 2019 // The union for Southwest Airlines Co. pilots sued Boeing Co., saying the manufacturer rushed output of the 737 Max jet to stay competitive, withholding key information about a feature that contributed to two fatal crashes...
Walgreens, Kroger Join Walmart in Halting Sales of E-Cigarettes
Oct 8 2019 // Kroger Co. and Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. said on Monday they would stop selling e-cigarettes at their stores, amid heightened regulatory scrutiny of the product and reports of lung disease and some deaths linked to...
Man Sentenced to 2 Years for $250K Insurance Fraud Scheme in California
Oct 7 2019 // Kenneth X. Huang, 41, was sentenced last week to two years in federal prison, three years supervised release, and ordered to pay $259,594 in restitution over a reported fraud scheme involving insurance in California. A...
Supreme Court Lets Stand Claim Applying Disabilities Act to Online Services
Oct 7 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by Domino’s Pizza Inc. to avoid a lawsuit by a blind man who accused the company of violating a law barring discrimination against people with disabilities after he was...
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects U. of Wisconsin Appeal in Patent Fight with Apple
Oct 7 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a bid by the University of Wisconsin’s patent licensing arm to reinstate its legal victory against Apple Inc. in a fight over computer processor technology that the school...
Hurricane Dorian Caused More Than C$105M in Insured Damage to Atlantic Canada
Oct 7 2019 // Hurricane Dorian hit Atlantic Canada on Sept. 7 causing more than C$105 million (US$78.9 million) in insured damage, said Insurance Bureau of Canada, quoting the Catastrophe Indices and Quantification Inc. (CatIQ).* The...
States Suing Purdue Pharma Claim Sacklers Drew $13 Billion Profit from OxyContin
Oct 7 2019 // OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP steered up to $13 billion in profits to the company’s controlling Sackler family, according to U.S. states opposing efforts to halt lawsuits alleging the company and its owners helped...
Supreme Court Session Opening This Week Faces Controversial Rights Issues
Oct 7 2019 // The U.S. Supreme Court kicks off its new term this week, with a major dispute on tap over whether a landmark decades-old federal anti-discrimination law that bars sex discrimination in the workplace protects gay and...
Update on Lawsuits Targeting Vaping; Litigation Expected to Grow
Oct 7 2019 // Several deaths and potentially hundreds of illnesses tied to e-cigarettes, which allow users to inhale nicotine vapor, often flavored, without smoking, have been reported by U.S. health agency. Lawsuits on behalf of young...
Catastrophe Modelers: U.S. Insured Losses from Dorian Could Reach $1.5B in U.S.
Oct 7 2019 // Insured loss estimates for Hurricane Dorian will range from $500 million to $1.5 billion, according to catastrophe modeling firms Karen Clark & Co. and RMS. According to KCC, Dorian reached peak intensity of 185 mph...
A Blistering Start to 2019 Closely Tracks 2018’s Record-Setting Numbers
Oct 7 2019 // The number of publicly announced deals that closed in the insurance distribution sector during the first two quarters of 2019 closely tracked the number of deals during the same period in 2018, suggesting that 2019 may be...
Surplus Lines Premium Grows in Response to Weak Results; Top 15 E&S Writers: Fitch
Oct 7 2019 // Direct written premiums in the U.S. excess and surplus (E&S) lines market during 2018 grew at its greatest rate since 2012, increasing 11% and representing the eighth consecutive year of premium growth, according to...
Local Officials from Across U.S. Pressure McDonald’s on Workplace Harassment Policies
Oct 7 2019 // Scores of local government officials from 31 U.S. states pressured McDonald’s Corp.’s in late September to do a better job of protecting workers from groping, obscene comments and other forms of sexual...
Colorado Banks Quietly Serving Cannabis Industry
Oct 4 2019 // Colorado’s cannabis industry has had a chief request since marijuana was legalized: Give us access to banks. But it turns out that hundreds of the state’s pot businesses are already working with financial...
Tokio Marine Eyed PURE for Years. Yankees-Red Sox Finally Brought Them Together.
Oct 4 2019 // PURE Group, the high-net-worth insurer set to be acquired by Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., had been on the Japanese company’s radar for more than a decade. After PURE was created in 2006, Tokio Marine tried to set up a...
New York Court Blocks State Ban on Flavored E-Cigarettes
Oct 4 2019 // A New York court on Thursday temporarily halted a state ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, giving the embattled vaping industry a breather just a day before the state’s prohibition was due to take effect. The...
Micronesians Working at Iowa Meat Plant Allege Mistreatment
Oct 4 2019 // The island nation of Micronesia is raising concerns about how some of its citizens working at an Iowa pork processing plant are being treated. Micronesia sent a formal letter to the U.S. State Department asking U.S....
Vaping-Related Death Count Rises to 18, Illnesses Surpass 1,000: CDC
Oct 4 2019 // U.S. health officials on Thursday reported 18 deaths due to a mysterious lung illness linked to e-cigarettes and other vaping products and said the number of confirmed and probable cases of the condition now exceeds...
FTC Orders E-Cigarette Makers to Relinquish Advertising, Sales Data
Oct 4 2019 // The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has ordered a half-dozen e-cigarette companies to turn over sales and advertising data, the federal regulator said on Thursday, in the first sign of a likely probe of their marketing...
Tokio Marine to Buy High Net Worth Insurer Pure for $3.1 Billion
Oct 3 2019 // Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. has agreed to buy U.S. high net worth insurer Privilege Underwriters Inc. and its specialty insurance subsidiaries, known as Pure Group, for $3.1 billion (approximately JPY 325.5B). Tokio Marine...
