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Swiss Re Predicts a Rise in Liability Claims as Economic Growth Accelerates
Liability claims have been lower than expected in recent years, which has boosted insurers' profits despite a decline in liability rates. But new risks and stronger economic growth will increase ...
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 ...
JPMorgan Cyber Attacks Sign That Rate of Trouble Will Increase
Tom Ridge, the first homeland security chief under President George W. Bush, says companies face more risk of cyber attacks similar to those that struck JPMorgan Chase & Co., Home Depot Inc. and ...
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 ...
MetLife to Challenge Systemic Risk Designation
MetLife Inc., the largest U.S. life insurer, is challenging a U.S. finding that it poses a potential risk to the financial system if it were to fail. MetLife requested a hearing before the Financial ...
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 ...
USAA Wants to Survey Disaster Site Damage With Drones
United Services Automobile Association, the provider of insurance to military families, is seeking permission to use unmanned drone aircraft to survey damage at disaster sites. USAA requested ...