Litigation/Liability Trends
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 ...
AIG Trial Testimony: Billions in Bailout Bucks Came Through, Sans Paperwork
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York poured billions of dollars into rescuing American International Group Inc. in September 2008 without drawing up documents that would cement the government's ...
Report: Used-Car Dealers Focus of Loan Fraud Investigation
U.S. federal and state authorities are investigating used-car dealerships to examine if they are inflating borrowers' income or falsifying employment information on loan applications to ensure that ...
Following the Science on Fracking, the Environment and Human Health
Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) combined with horizontal drilling has unleashed a huge oil and gas boom in the United States and redrawn the world energy map. But could this new technology result in ...Research Sources for Praedicat’s Fracking Report
In a special report for Carrier Management, R.J. Briggs, Energy Economist for Praedicat, pulled together highlights of current scientific research on the risks associated with hydraulic fracturing. ...