Russian Firms Face Huge Insurance Costs as Foreign Insurers Flee November 20, 2014 By Jonathan Saul, Carolyn Cohn and Katya Golubkova Russian companies face billions of dollars in extra insurance costs as Western sanctions prompt foreign insurance firms to start pulling...
North Carolina Lawmakers Hear Pros, Cons of Uber, Lyft, Airbnb November 20, 2014 By Jonathan Drew North Carolina lawmakers heard arguments this week for and against increasing regulation of digital services that allow people to sell...
Florida Company Reaches $40M Settlement Over Illegal Fax Ads November 20, 2014 A Jacksonville-based company has reached a $40 million settlement in a class action lawsuit over claims the company sent unsolicited...
Staples Still Tallying Costs of Data Breach November 20, 2014 By Kevin Orland Staples Inc., the world’s largest office-supply chain, said it can’t yet “reasonably” estimate the potential losses and expenses it will...
Farm Bill Costs Soar Despite Great Harvest November 20, 2014 By Christine Stebbins and Ros Krasny U.S. farmers are about to reap a bumper harvest not just in corn and soybeans but also in new subsidies...
More Snow Threatening for Western New York as Flooding Risk November 20, 2014 By Brian K. Sullivan and Freeman Klopott Lake-effect snow that killed six people and halted travel across western New York may reach as high as 7 feet...
D&O Primary, Excess Layer Pricing Moving in Opposite Directions: Aon November 20, 2014 Overall price declines for directors and officers liability insurance programs of publicly traded companies continue to be driven by excess-layer...
3 U.S. Wholesalers Launch $25M D&O Program at Lloyd’s for North America November 20, 2014 Three of the largest U.S. wholesale firms — CRC, AmWINS Brokerage, and Swett & Crawford — have launched a $25...
LeapFrog Buys Majority Stake in Kenya’s Resolution Insurance November 20, 2014 By Renee Bonorchis and Eric Ombok LeapFrog Investments, the private equity firm with a focus on Africa and Asia, said it will pay 1.68 billion shillings...
Evans to Succeed Thoresen as ABI Director General November 20, 2014 The Association of British Insurers (ABI) announced that Huw Evans will succeed Otto Thoresen as Director General in February 2015,...