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Customer, Expert Partnerships Advancing AIG Safety Agenda: Hancock
While the world is far safer these days—in part thanks to property/casualty insurers—carriers can continue the trend by creatively collaborating with clients and outside experts, American ...
Severe European Storms Hamper Air Travel and German Railway
Severe weather across Europe disrupted air travel at some of the region's largest hubs, including Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam and Munich on Tuesday and hampered regional rail services in Germany. ...
When MGAs manage a high volume of insurance submissions, underwriting speed often depends on what happens before an underwriter ever...
Lufthansa’s Knowledge of Crash Pilot’s Depression Could Impact Insurance Claims
The German pilot who crashed a plane in the French Alps last week, killing 150 people, told officials at a Lufthansa training school in 2009 that he had gone through a period of severe depression, ...
Reputational Harm Claims Most Costly For Small Businesses: The Hartford
Claims involving libel, slander and violation of property – known as reputational harm in industry lingo – are the most expensive that small businesses are likely to experience. The most common: ...
Calif. Tech, VC Firms Out in Front—This Time on Bias Suits in State Court
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers' decisive victory over Ellen Pao's gender bias suit doesn't mean Silicon Valley giants are off the hook. More lawsuits alleging gender discrimination, sexual ...
Plaintiff Pao Loses California Gender Discrimination Case
A jury soundly rejected Ellen Pao's claims of gender discrimination by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, in a case that riveted Silicon Valley for weeks and exposed how women fare in the ...
Lufthansa Risks Unlimited Liability in Germanwings Crash
Deutsche Lufthansa AG may face unlimited liability for payments to families of victims of the Germanwings jet crashed by its suicidal co-pilot, according to lawyers. "The liability for the victims ...
Cyber Risks Emerging as Shipping Sector Threat: Allianz
Cyber risks are emerging as a new threat for the shipping sector even as ship losses have sunk to their lowest level in a decade, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty concluded in a new study. ...