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Greenberg Presses for Bernanke Testimony in Lawsuit Over AIG Bailout
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke should be required to testify in Maurice "Hank" Greenberg's lawsuit over the bailout of American International Group Inc., Greenberg's lawyers said. ...
Court Says Insurers Can Probe Whether Rogue MF Global Trader Was Employee
An American International Group Inc. unit and other insurers can probe whether a "rogue trader" was an employee of MF Global Holdings Inc. as part of a lawsuit over liabilities for losses tied to the ...
Survivors Of Quebec Train Crash To File Class Action Suit
Two residents of the Quebec town of Lac-Megantic, where a runaway train derailed and exploded into a wall of fire that killed 50 people, have launched a class action lawsuit to win compensation for ...
Anadarko To Face Narrowed Gulf Spill Shareholder Lawsuit
A federal judge ordered Anadarko Petroleum Corp, which owned part of the blown out well at the center of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, to face a lawsuit accusing it of defrauding shareholders, ...
Google & Microsoft: Enemies In Court, Frenemies In Congress
Even as they battle in courts over smartphone and video technology, Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. have discovered a common foe: patent owners who try to sue their customers or go after an entire ...
NY Judge To Rule If WTC Developer Can Seek Damages Beyond Insurance Payments From Airlines
A federal judge is days away from deciding if New York developer Larry Silverstein can recover as much as $3.5 billion from airlines for damages to the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, on top of ...
Form F, ORSA Rules Open New Windows For Insurance Regulators
Executives of property/casualty insurers are getting comfortable with the idea that they have to file Enterprise Risk Reports and Own Risk and Solvency Assessments (ORSA) with U.S. insurance ...
What About Transparency?
Provisions protecting proprietary strategic information are necessary as insurance groups start to file Enterprise Risk Reports in 2014, according to property/casualty insurance carrier ...