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People Moves: Lim Promoted to CEO, Howden Singapore; Liberty Specialty Mkts. Hires Lim for Aviation Claims; OdysseyRe Taps Everest’s Finnegan for U.S. General Casualty
May 4 2022 // This edition of International People Moves details appointments at Howden Singapore, Liberty Specialty Markets and OdysseyRe. A summary of these new hires follows here. Lim Promoted to CEO of Howden Singapore Howden, the...
Report Forecasts ‘Above-Normal’ U.S. Wildfire Season, Worse in Drought-Plagued West
May 4 2022 // The U.S. has in store an “above-normal” wildfire season if a prediction out on Wednesday from fire weather experts holds true – “intense” may be a better word for the expectations in Western...
U.S. SEC Ramps Up Crypto Fraud Oversight by Adding 20 Employees
May 3 2022 // The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said on Tuesday it will add 20 positions to its enforcement unit for crypto markets in its push to curb fraudulent activities in the hot digital space. The securities...
Teva Pharma Sees Nationwide U.S. Opioid Settlement in 2022
May 3 2022 // Teva Pharmaceutical Industries believes it would have to pay around $2.6 billion in cash and medicine to settle thousands of lawsuits alleging it and other drug companies fueled the U.S. opioid epidemic. On the heels of...
U.S. Solar Industry Warns of Slowdown Due to Supply Chain Disruptions, Tariff Uncertainty
May 3 2022 // The U.S. solar industry is warning of a big slowdown in project installations this year as global supply chain disruptions and the threat of new U.S. tariffs on panel imports from Southeast Asia hit home. U.S. power...
U.S. Nuclear Agency Seeks Documentation on Quake Safety of New Reactor Design
May 2 2022 // An official with the U.S. nuclear power regulator has ordered staff to supply documents that could lead to a review of a 2020 approval of a new type of nuclear power reactor after an engineer raised concerns about its...
Dog-Related Claims Cost U.S. Home Insurers Nearly $900M in 2021
May 2 2022 // Dog bites and other dog-related injuries accounted for more than one-third of all homeowners liability claim dollars paid out in 2021, costing $881 million, according to an analysis by the Insurance Information Institute...
U.S. Trucking Downturn Foreshadows Possible Economic Gloom
May 2 2022 // Craig Fuller monitors millions of transactions between U.S. truckers and their customers as chief executive of transportation data company FreightWaves — and he does not like what he is seeing. There has been an...
McDonald’s Beats Back Challenge to Settlement With U.S. Labor Agency
May 2 2022 // McDonald’s Corp. last month defeated a union-backed organizing group’s challenge to a settlement with a U.S. labor agency over claims that the company helped franchisees across the country suppress...
U.S. Joins 55 Nations to Set New Global Rules for the Internet
Apr 28 2022 // The United States and 55 other nations on Thursday signed a political commitment to push rules for the internet that are underpinned by democratic values, at a time when the U.S. has accused Russia of wielding internet...
U.S. Lawmakers Push Insurers to Stop Underwriting Fossil Fuels
Apr 27 2022 // A group of Democratic lawmakers, mostly members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, have asked some of the nation’s biggest insurance companies to stop underwriting new fossil fuel projects that contribute to...
White House Seeks More Power to Counter Use of Drones in U.S.
Apr 27 2022 // The Biden administration is calling on Congress to expand authority for federal and local governments to take action to counter the nefarious use in the U.S. of drones, which are becoming a growing security concern and...
U.S. Companies Warn China’s Data Rules Risk Creating ‘Digital Island’
Apr 25 2022 // China’s “uniquely restrictive” data laws risk boosting U.S. firms’ cost of doing business in the No. 2 economy and could lead to digital decoupling, a new report from an American business group...
McDonald’s Beats Back Challenge to Settlement With U.S. Labor Agency
Apr 25 2022 // McDonald’s Corp. on Friday defeated a union-backed organizing group’s challenge to a settlement with a U.S. labor agency over claims that the company helped franchisees across the country suppress...
U.S. Trucking Downturn Foreshadows Possible Economic Gloom
Apr 25 2022 // Craig Fuller monitors millions of transactions between U.S. truckers and their customers as chief executive of transportation data company FreightWaves – and he does not like what he is seeing. There has been an...
Ending Collateral Requirements for Non-U.S. Reinsurers – It’s Been a Long Time Coming
Apr 22 2022 // Financially strong EU and UK reinsurers will finally see the end of collateral requirements for business they write in the United States — changes that have been more than 20 years in the making. Effective Oct. 1,...
U.S. Companies Warn China’s Data Rules Risk Creating ‘Digital Island’
Apr 21 2022 // China’s “uniquely restrictive” data laws risk boosting U.S. firms’ cost of doing business in the No. 2 economy and could lead to digital decoupling, a new report from an American business group...
U.S. Justice Department Appeals Transportation Mask Ruling
Apr 21 2022 // The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday appealed a judge’s ruling ending a mask mandate on public transportation and airplanes after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the measure was still...
Reducing Inequality, Hiking Minimum Wage Could Boost U.S. Economy: White House
Apr 20 2022 // Boosting enforcement of antidiscrimination and antitrust laws, raising the federal minimum wage and higher unionization rates could substantially boost U.S. economic growth, a new report by President Joe Biden’s top...
U.S. Ties North Korean Hacker Group Lazarus to Huge Cryptocurrency Theft
Apr 19 2022 // The United States has linked North Korean hackers to the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency tied to the popular online game Axie Infinity, the U.S. Treasury Department said on...
