Government
UK Can End Brexit If It Wishes, According to EU Top Court Opinion
The U.K. should be allowed to reverse Brexit, according to an advisory opinion from the European Union's top court that will fuel the campaign to thwart the divorce. The opinion, which isn't binding, ...
Last-Ditch Effort Begins to Pass Self-Driving Car Bill
Key U.S. senators are making a last-ditch effort to win approval of a bill to speed the use of self-driving cars without human controls, but face an uphill battle on Capitol Hill. Staff for ...
Flood Insurance, Terrorism Cover, FIO Will Be on the 2019 P/C Congressional Agenda
Reform and long-term renewal of the National Flood Insurance Program will be high on the property/casualty insurance industry's agenda when the new Congress begins its work in January 2019. Congress ...
UK Trade Secretary Urges Colleagues to Back Brexit Deal or Be Trapped in EU Forever
U.K. Trade Secretary Liam Fox, a veteran Brexit campaigner, told his colleagues to back Theresa May's divorce deal or risk trapping the country in the European Union. Speaking in a Bloomberg ...
Report: Ex-GE Employees Being Questioned About Legacy Insurance Business
General Electric Co's former employees are being questioned by federal investigators about details in a legacy insurance business that led to accounting issues at the conglomerate last year, the Wall ...
Experts Predict Another Short-Term Renewal for National Flood Insurance Program
With the clock ticking on the National Flood Insurance Program's authorization that is set to run out this Friday, Nov. 30, Congress is expected to renew the program short-term by taking one of ...
Climate Change Talks Scheduled to Begin With Backdrop of Intense Political Divisions
Divisions within Europe and tension between the United States and China pose major challenges to the next round of United Nations talks on climate change. The most important U.N. climate conference ...
SCOTUS Appears Open to Letting Apple App Store Antitrust Suit Proceed
U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday appeared open to letting a lawsuit proceed against Apple Inc that accused it of breaking federal antitrust laws by monopolizing the market for iPhone software ...