November 18, 2010
About 40 Rolls-Royce engines used in the world’s fleet of Airbus A380 aircraft may need to be replaced to ensure safety after one such engine partly disintegrated mid-flight this month, Australia’s Qantas said. That would represent about half of all …
November 18, 2010
Federal safety officials are calling on states to require all motorcycle riders to wear helmets, citing a surge in fatalities since the late 1990s. Motorcycle deaths have increased over the last decade even as other traffic fatalities have declined, the …
November 17, 2010
The United States is lagging behind nearly every other high-income country in reducing annual traffic fatalities, said a report released this week by a U.S. government research panel. There’s some good news: U.S. traffic fatalities fell 9.7 percent in 2009 …
November 16, 2010
Negotiators from nearly 40 countries have finalized the text of an international agreement to help fight the growing trade in fake and pirated goods, the European Commission and the United States said on Monday. The negotiators settled a handful of …
November 9, 2010
In its presentation at the 17th General Insurance Seminar at the Gold Coast in Australia, Aon Benfield highlighted the critical role of actuaries in managing emerging risks for the re/insurance industry. “The profession’s role will evolve to deliver more robust …
November 8, 2010
Australia’s Qantas Airways has grounded its A380 fleet for at least another three days as it investigates oil leaks as a possible cause of the explosion which tore apart one of the super jumbo’s engines last week. Qantas shares fell …
November 5, 2010
The family of an inmate who died in prison is suing the town of Walnut Grove and a private corrections company, claiming Dennis Earl Holmes was denied adequate medical care before dying of what the plaintiffs believe was treatable diabetes. …
November 2, 2010
Marsh’s London office announced the appointment of Cath Whitaker to the position of senior vice president in the International Division of its Global Market Relationship Management team. She joins Marsh from Willis, where she was acting managing director of its …
October 28, 2010
Insurance Australia Group Limited (IAG) Managing Director and CEO, Mike Wilkins has advised the Group’s shareholders that, after the completion of the first quarter of its fiscal year, IAG was on track to meet its full year guidance of an …