Armistice Day/Veteran’s Day – the “war to end war;” the dead, the wounded and the missing. Almost faded from memory now – 92 years after it ended – the “Great War,” World War I. The consequences have been unfolding ever …
Tropical Storm Paula weakened further Thursday, but still packed enough punch to blast through the Cuban capital with driving rains and high winds that toppled trees, flooded streets and left large swaths of the city without power. There were no …
The family of a former Massachusetts student who received electric shocks at a special needs school has agreed to receive $65,000 to settle a lawsuit claiming the treatment was inhumane and violated the student’s civil rights. The privately operated Judge …
Insurance buyers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) are reaping the cost benefits created by greater competition among insurers for their business and the added capacity generated by new entrants to the market, according to a report published …
A militant group linked to al Qaeda said on Wednesday that a suicide bomber was responsible for a mysterious explosion on a Japanese-owned oil tanker a week ago near the Strait of Hormuz. But analysts are sceptical about the belated …
California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced that 1,010 insurance companies — more than 75 percent of insurers licensed to do business in California — have agreed to forgo future investments in 50 companies identified as doing business with Iran’s nuclear, …
A state district judge has granted Louisiana’s auto dealers’ and tire stores’ request to temporarily stop the state from forcing them to become licensed insurance agents in order to sell tire-and-wheel road hazard coverage. In December, Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon’s …
The insurance company for the city of Miami Beach has been ordered to pay $5.75 million in damages to the families of a man and the woman he tried to save from drowning. Monticello Insurance Co. had refused to pay …
San Diego’s Natural History Museum Took Extraordinary Steps to Protect Dead Sea Scrolls The Dead Sea Scrolls are among the oldest documents, and greatest artifacts, in the world. So what do you do if they get lent to your museum? …
AIR Worldwide Corporation has updated its probabilistic earthquake risk model for the Mediterranean region. The Boston-based catastrophe risk modeling firm, noted that the model is “used by European insurers, brokers, and reinsurers to manage earthquake risk in this region.” The …
