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Fitch Recommends Slower P/C Insurance Embrace of Cyber Risks
Cyber risk may be the fastest growing segment in property/casualty insurance, but carriers should be measured about boosting their presence in the space, Fitch Ratings warned in a new report. Why go ...
Jury Orders J&J to Pay $502M in Hip Implant Failure Patient Lawsuit
Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay $502 million to a group of patients who accused the company of hiding flaws in its Pinnacle artificial hips that caused the devices to prematurely fail and ...
Uber Wants to Buy Self-Driving Cars: Report
Ride-hailing service Uber has sounded out car companies about placing a large order for self-driving cars, an auto industry source said on Friday. "They wanted autonomous cars," the source, who ...
A Working National Flood Insurance Bill by Fall? It’s Possible
The 2016 election season won't hamper ongoing work on renewing and reforming the U.S. government's struggling National Flood Insurance Program well before it expires in September 2017, a leading ...
VW Reportedly May Establish Two Funds to Address Emissions Scandal
Volkswagen AG is in talks with U.S. authorities to establish a national remediation fund and a separate one for California as punishment for pollution from its cars after the automaker cheated on ...
Motorist Behavior Needs More Study, PCI Says
In a statement praising automakers for committing to standardize automatic emergency braking by 2022, an executive from the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America urged more focus on ...
Insurance Discounts Ahead as U.S. Automakers Promise Crash-Avoidance Braking by 2022
The chief U.S. auto safety regulator defended a voluntary agreement with carmakers to add automatic braking systems, saying that making the change mandatory would take too much time. Under the terms ...
Security Firms Blame Chinese Hackers for U.S. Ransomware Attacks
Hackers using tactics and tools previously associated with Chinese government-supported computer network intrusions have joined the booming cyber crime industry of ransomware, four security firms ...