Social Responsibility
Charity Auction Lunch With Buffett Is a Bargain Compared to Last Year
A bidder pledged $2.68 million to a San Francisco charity in exchange for a lunch date with billionaire investor Warren Buffett. The winner of the online auction that concluded Friday on eBay Inc.'s ...
Bush Wins! And Other Insurance Political News
Monumental views on insurance and risk in the nation's capital? Surely we jest. Well, we will take an occasional dip into the Potomac waters to poke fun, but overall we hope this reporting on ...
Top Firms Lobby for Preemptive Federal Strike on Family Paid Leave
During the 2016 presidential campaign, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton pledged their support for more paid family leave. Now big business is countering the calls with a proposal of its own: ...
Swiss Re Economists Win International Awards for Research on Catastrophe Protection Gap
Thomas Holzheu and Ginger Turner of Swiss Re have received Shin Research Excellence Awards for their paper on "The Natural Catastrophe Protection Gap." The awards are given by the Geneva Association ...
Rising Global Protectionism Threatens Economic Growth: Atlantic Council/Zurich Insurance
A new report from the Atlantic Council and Zurich Insurance Group examines best-, worst- and base-case scenarios for global protectionism and other geopolitical trends and the potential impact for ...
The Hartford, Allstate Among World’s Most Ethical Companies
The Hartford and Allstate both made a list of the World's Most Ethical Companies in 2017. This marks the ninth year The Hartford has received the designation from the Ethisphere Institute, experts in ...
Cities Propel Past Central Governments in Race to Curb Climate Change
Cities from Oslo to Sydney are setting goals to curb climate change that exceed national targets, causing tensions with central governments about who controls policy over green energy and transport ...
Insurer/Investor Group Urges G20 Economies to Phase out Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Investors and insurers with more than $2.8 trillion in assets under management on Wednesday called on the Group of 20 economies to phase out fossil fuel subsidies by 2020 despite U.S. doubts about ...