Data & Research
Female CFOs Less Aggressive on Tax Dodges: Study
Female chief financial officers at U.S. corporations are less likely to adopt high-risk tax-avoidance strategies than their male counterparts, according to a study by an accounting group. The chances ...
AAA: Americans Murky on Driving Risks with Pot and Prescription Drugs Alike
About 85 percent of Americans want to see laws that punish drivers impaired by marijuana, even as more states have legalized its recreational use. They remain less worried, however, about driving ...
Carrier Management’s 2014 P/C Highlights, in Chart Form
Our readers want to know how the insurance companies they run and work for are ranked. We delivered in 2014, giving them the information they need in both story and chart form. The former helps ...
Carrier Management’s Top 10 News Stories of 2014
Five of the top Carrier Management news stories in 2014 ranked everything from insurance industry jobs to the companies themselves, in different iterations. The common link: there's huge interest in ...
Report: S&P Close to Settling Real Estate Bond Rating Investigation
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services is nearing a settlement with regulators over their investigation of how the company graded real-estate bonds, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people ...
Isn’t It Ridiculous? Top 10 Crazy Lawsuits of 2014
Earlier this month, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform announced its list of the Top 10 Most Ridiculous Lawsuits of 2014: Plaintiff in Pending Disability Lawsuit Topples Huge, ...
WCRI Study: Pill Mill Reform Fuels Shift from Opioids to Weaker Meds
A law banning physicians from dispensing certain strong opioids discouraged the doctors from prescribing those drugs at all, according to a new study, which also found that the doctors dispensed more ...
Study: Female Board Members Linked to Positive Company Financial Performance
There is a positive correlation between women serving on a company's board of directors and a firm's financial performance, according to new research from Syracuse University's Martin J. Whitman ...