Litigation/Liability Trends
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Unveils New Coverage For Executives
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance is rolling out out insurance coverage to address exposures for executives and their companies regarding oversight of their employee benefit plans. Dubbed ...
Bond Insurer MBIA Hit By Data Breach; Wide Net of Damage Likely
Bond insurer MBIA was told two weeks ago about a server breach that compromised the data of thousands of local U.S. government entities, but it did not address the problem until earlier this week, ...Geithner: AIG’s Collapse Could Have Triggered Global Mass Panic
The failure in 2008 of American International Group Inc., the world's biggest insurer, would have caused "mass panic on a global scale," Timothy Geithner, the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New ...
Watchdog Group Warns Arctic Shipping Safety Not Assured
Canada will have trouble ensuring marine safety in the Arctic as climate change melts the sea ice and shipping increases, Parliament's environmental watchdog said on Tuesday. Canada, said Environment ...
How Insurers Gain ‘Systemically Important’ Status May Be Tweaked
The U.S. top financial risk council may tweak the way in which it identifies insurers and other companies that are not banks as systemically important, a process the industry and politicians have ...
Ex-Treasury Secretary Talked With China About 2008 Financial Bailout
Henry Paulson, the former treasury secretary, said he talked with China about helping bail out financial firms in 2008, in the first discussion of the rescue scheme in a court with two other plan ...
Supreme Court to Decide Future of Disparate Impact Claims
Taking up a case closely watched by banks and insurance companies, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed last week to decide whether federal housing law permits racial bias claims based on seemingly neutral ...
Data Theft from 76 Million Homes Enabled by JPMorgan Password
Hackers exploited an employee password to crack a JPMorgan Chase & Co. server and ultimately pull off one of the largest cyber-attacks ever, accessing data on 76 million households and 7 million ...