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Ford Teams with MIT, Stanford to Research Autonomous Driving
Ford Motor Co. said it is joining with two top U.S. universities to launch research into automated driving technology. The automaker said it will work with Stanford University and the Massachusetts ...Travelers’ Slowing of Price Hikes Raises Concerns; Shares Fall
U.S. insurer Travelers Cos. Inc.'s slowing pace of price hikes raised concerns about its margins and overshadowed a three-fold rise in quarterly profit, sending its shares down as much as 3 percent. ...
Driving Losing Some Of Its Appeal But Reasons May Vary By Country
Car use appears to have leveled off and even started falling in many of the world's advanced economies long before the global downturn in 2008, according to transport experts. The slowdown brings to ...
Reinsurance Costs Helping to Lower Florida Homeowners Rates: OIR
Florida's top insurance regulator says that state residents are starting to benefit from a more competitive homeowners market as rates have started to trend downward due in part to the reduction in ...Lower Disaster Claims, Higher Prices Boost Travelers’ Q4 Profit
Travelers Cos., the property/casualty insurer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, said fourth-quarter profit more than tripled as claims costs from natural disasters fell a year after Superstorm ...
Canadian Insurers Pay Record C$3.2 Billion in Weather Claims
Canadian insurance companies paid a record C$3.2 billion ($2.9 billion) to claimants last year as the country coped with weather-related disasters, an industry group said. The ice storm in December ...
TRIPRA Uncertainty Already Pushing Workers Comp Rates Up, Marsh Says
Without disclosing the magnitude of rate changes they may be facing, Marsh reported Tuesday that employers with large concentrations of employees are experience workers compensation rate hikes and ...
Latest New Zealand Quake Adds to Growing List in Region, AIR Says
Reporting on the latest earthquake to strike New Zealand earlier this week, catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide said the magnitude 6.2 quake was one of many to shake the region over the years. ...