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Drugmakers Search for Safer Painkillers Amid Opioid Abuse Epidemic
Backed by a U.S. campaign to slow abuse of prescription painkillers, drugmakers are devising new forms of the medicines that don't lead to misuse and new products that treat dependency in a bid to ...
How Carriers, Agents Can Adapt As Small Commercial Buyers Move Online
About 52 percent of America's small business insurance customers say they are ready to complete their commercial insurance purchasing online without the aid of an agent or broker. That's according to ...
Big Insurers, State Regulators Look to Avoid Bank-Like Rules by Federal Reserve
MetLife Inc. and Prudential Financial Inc. have been joined by state regulators challenging the Federal Reserve on how to oversee the biggest insurers under the Dodd-Frank law. The insurers and ...
Dodd-Frank: Example of How Congress Can Overcome Gridlock
Congress is leaving town, a cause for celebration across the land. Except that the lawmakers are going away only for the Independence Day recess; they'll be back. The branch of government endowed by ...
AIR Releases Japan Earthquake Model Update; Reflects Tohoku Insights
Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide announced Monday that it has updated its Earthquake Model for Japan to include insights gained from the Great Tohoku earthquake of March 2011. The Tohoku event ...
CoreLogic Acquiring Marshall & Swift/Boeckh & DataQuick Info Systems For $661M
CoreLogic, a residential property information, analytics and services provider, announced Monday that the company entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Marshall & Swift/Boeckh and ...
Small Commercial Buyers Moving Online: Who Are They? What Do They Want?
According to a recent study by consultant Deloitte, more than half of small businesses (52 percent) are now ready and willing to buy their insurance direct from a carrier over the Internet without an ...New York Probes 20 Foreign Reinsurers’ Compliance with Iran Sanctions
New York's financial regulator has asked 20 non-U.S. reinsurers whether they conducted business with entities linked to Iran, as part of a review of these companies' ability to comply with a new U.S. ...