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Facebook Sued Over Allegations of Age and Gender Bias in Financial Services Ads
Facebook Inc was sued on Thursday in a proposed class action accusing it of discriminating against older and female users by withholding advertising for financial services such as bank accounts, ...
Executives On The Move at Ironshore, Capital Insurance and Willis Towers Watson
Liberty Mutual's Ironshore chose a new head of its professional and management liability division. Capital Insurance Group promoted one of its veteran executives to the position of senior vice ...
PCS Extends Catastrophe Methodology to More Asia/Pacific Countries
Property Claims Services (PCS), a Verisk subsidiary, has extended the catastrophe loss aggregation methodology, previously developed for use in Japan, to cover more territories in the region. ...
A Bayer Roundup Settlement Will Take Some Time: Lawyer
Even after three big losses in court trials and a plunge in market value, Bayer AG isn't close to settling tens of thousands of U.S. lawsuits claiming its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer, according ...
Opinion: States Unwise to Tackle Climate Change by Suing Big Oil
A growing number of cities and states want to turn climate change lawsuits against oil companies into the next tobacco or opioid litigation. In principle, that seems like a truly terrible idea. Such ...
The Latest Launches From Travelers, Trov and Willis Towers Watson
Travelers is partnering with a technology company to simplify its new business and policy renewal processes by using artificial intelligence. The InsurTech Trov is launching a new product on its ...
Chubb CEO Greenberg: Insurer Has Reshaped Portfolio in Response to California Wildfires
Some insurers may be facing sizable risks stemming from the latest round of California wildfires now raging, but Chubb Chairman and CEO Evan Greenberg insists his company isn't one of them. "We do ...
$110B: The Potential Cost of a Cyber Attack on Asia’s Ports
A cyber attack on Asian ports could cost as much as $110 billion, or half the total global loss from natural catastrophes in 2018, a Lloyd's of London-backed report said on Wednesday. Cyber insurance ...