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Aon’s $30B Bid for Willis Towers Watson Raises Australian Antitrust Doubts
Australia's competition regulator on Thursday raised initial concerns over Aon's $30 billion bid for Willis Towers Watson to create the world's largest insurance broker, close on the heels of a ...
Google Antitrust Cases Move Forward With Document Ruling
The federal judge who is hearing both the U.S. Justice Department and state antitrust cases against Google said on Thursday that he wanted the states to begin turning documents over to the search and ...
Zurich To Stop Backing Nord Stream 2 After U.S. Sanctions Warning
Zurich Insurance Group will drop out of Russia's Nord Stream 2 project in the face of looming U.S. sanctions against European companies that support construction of the $11 billion gas pipeline, two ...
Chubb, Liberty Mutual, Travelers Put Political Donations On Hold
Major U.S. insurers on Wednesday decided to suspend contributions to political campaigns for the next few months, following last week's violence at the U.S. Capitol and challenge to President-elect ...
European Firms, Insurers, Warned of U.S. Sanctions Over Russian Pipeline
The U.S. State Department this month told European companies which it suspects are helping to build Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline that they face the risk of sanctions as the outgoing Trump ...
SolarWinds Hackers Linked to Known Russian Spying Tools
The group behind a global cyber-espionage campaign discovered last month deployed malicious computer code with links to spying tools previously used by suspected Russian hackers, researchers said on ...
No Insurance: Taxpayers on Hook for U.S. Capital Mob Attack Damage
U.S. taxpayers will be on the hook for damage from a mob attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday because the building and grounds are not insured, industry sources said. Supporters of ...
Goosehead Insurance Axes Employee Involved in Storming of Capital
Texas-based personal lines insurance agency Goosehead Insurance has fired an employee who participated in the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6. According to a posting on Goosehead's Twitter account, ...