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Financial Institution Cyber Defenses Attract U.S. Regulatory Scrutiny
U.S. regulators on Wednesday said they were stepping up efforts to examine financial institutions' defenses to ward off cyber attacks, as a top FBI official warned of new "increasingly complex" ...
Judicial Panel Orders Hurricane Sandy Flood Insurers to Fork Over Reports
A Travelers Cos. unit and other flood insurers accused by Hurricane Sandy victims in New York of using falsified engineering reports must turn over the drafts to policyholders, a three-judge panel ...
Liability Alert: Chevron Leads in Greenhouse Gas Production
Chevron Corp. has produced more greenhouse gases than any other fossil-fuel company, according to a study released as global climate talks continued today in Lima. Chevron edged out state-owned Saudi ...
Ebola Vaccine Makers Offered Legal Immunity by HHS
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday offered liability protections to drug makers rushing to develop Ebola vaccines and urged other countries to follow suit. Health and Human ...
Zurich, Hiscox See Market Spikes in Healthcare Provider Liability Costs and Numbers
Healthcare providers must deal with increasingly severe malpractice or liability claims, and corresponding reality that the number of these cases continues to rise, two new property/casualty ...
Report: Sony PlayStation Online Store Slammed by Cyber Attack
Sony Corp's PlayStation online store was hacked on Monday, leading to a two-hour outage, the Financial Times reported, without citing sources. Sony confirmed the outage and said it was investigating ...
Report: Congress Nears Deal on TRIA Extension
Lawmakers are close to extending a federal program that covers a portion of corporations' losses from acts of terrorism, according to three congressional aides. House Financial Services Committee ...
November Featured Large Doses of Severe Weather: Aon Benfield
Bad weather made a huge impact in November, with four major winter weather events and resulting fatalities in the United States, global flooding and a big hailstorm in Australia generating much of ...