Litigation/Liability Trends
Should Tweeting CEOs Be Muzzled or Glorified?
If the CEO of a public company posts good news about the company's booming business on Facebook, does that same CEO have an obligation to post information about a subsequent business decline? The ...
End of Road for Auto Insurance
The auto insurance industry is dead. The last non-renewal notice has been sent, the last credit score has been calculated, and the last tee time made by a personal lines marketing rep has been moved ...S&P Wants Fraud Charges Moved to Federal Court; Justice Department Opposes
The U.S. Department of Justice opposed Standard & Poor's efforts to move a spate of lawsuits charging the ratings agency with fraud to federal from state courts. Standard & Poor's is seeking ...
U.S. Regulators To Weigh In On Health Effects Of Cellphone Radio Waves
U.S. regulators are looking into how radio frequencies emitted by cellphones and other wireless devices affect people amid lingering concerns about the risks of cellphone radiation. The Federal ...
Former Freddie Mac Executives Lose Bid To Toss SEC Lawsuit
Former Freddie Mac chief executive Richard Syron and two other one-time executives lost their bid to escape a U.S. regulator's lawsuit accusing them of misleading investors about the company's ...
U.S. Dismisses Most Claims In LIBOR Private Lawsuits; Finds For Banks
The world's biggest banks won a major victory on Friday when a U.S. judge dismissed a "substantial portion" of the claims in private lawsuits accusing them of rigging global benchmark interest rates. ...
Actuaries Weigh Healthcare Reform’s Effect on P/C Insurance
The key changes in federal health care reform remain months away but property/casualty actuaries are already trying to determine what impact they will have on their own lines of business, ...