Federal researchers are looking for cleanup workers willing to participate in a $17.8 million study of long-term health effects from last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill. They want to interview more than 50,000 cleanup workers in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama …
According to new research issued by financial services market research consultancy Finaccord, the market for extended warranties and insurance related to mobile and non-mobile consumer products in Europe was worth around €5.58 billion [$8 billion] in 2010. This breaks down …
Motorcycle fatalities declined in 2010 by at least 2 percent, according to a new report by the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA). Based on preliminary data, GHSA’s motorcycle fatality report projects that deaths declined from 4,465 in 2009 to 4,376 …
According to Swiss Re’s latest sigma study, worldwide economic losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters were $218 billion in 2010, more than triple the 2009 figure of $68 billion. The losses cost the global insurance industry more than $43 …
It’s not a far stretch to predict that the next generation of insurance consumers will want to purchase more insurance coverages online. But the latest Employers Small Business Opinion Poll confirms that Generations X and Y want to interact with …
A new report, compiled by US-based think-tank One Earth Future, has calculated that “maritime piracy is costing the international economy between $7 to $12 billion, per year.” The report notes that “at the end of 2010, around 500 seafarers from …
California could be subject to a powerful series of storms, capable of costing $300 billion in damages — three times as much as a severe earthquake in the southern part of the state, according to a new report by the …
