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VW to Begin Environmental-Suit Settlement Talks With Some States
Volkswagen AG will start negotiating with a group of U.S. states to settle lawsuits filed over claims the carmaker violated their environmental laws by equipping vehicles with software to manipulate ...
Central Italy Earthquake Destroys Towns, Kills at Least 63 People
A powerful earthquake hit central Italy in the middle of the night, destroying small mountain towns and burying victims in the rubble of collapsed buildings. At least 63 people were killed, Italian ...
Move-in Ready Home Modules Offer Faster Method of Post-Disaster Rebuilding: Texas A&M
Texas legislators are investigating the benefits of RAPIDO, a pilot program developed with recommendations from Texas A&M University's Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center (HRRC) that ...
Louisiana’s Affected Storm Areas Have Low Flood Insurance Penetration: RMS
It's bad enough that the heavy rainfall and massive flooding that began in Louisiana on Aug. 12 has damaged more than 50,000 homes. There's also this: A relatively small amount of businesses and ...
PCS Unveils Historical Catastrophe Database for Turkey
Property Claim Services has gone live with a new historical catastrophe database for Turkey, an advance that the data analytics provider said will be helpful for both insurers and reinsurers. "The ...
Singer John Legend is American Family’s Latest Celebrity Spokesperson
John Legend has joined an elite property/casualty insurance industry club that includes the likes of Peyton Manning, Dennis Haysbert, LeBron James, Shaquille O'Neill and William Shatner. Legend, a ...
Chubb Division May Sue Over Tesla Autopilot Crash
A Texas man said the Autopilot mode on his Tesla Model S sent him off the road and into a guardrail, bloodying his nose and shaking his confidence in the technology. He doesn't plan to sue the ...
UK Officials Reportedly Will Pull Brexit Start Trigger by April 2017
Prime Minister Theresa May's team is still leaning toward the first part of 2017 as the best moment to trigger the start of formal talks over the U.K.'s withdrawal from the European Union, according ...