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Hewlett-Packard Using $100M in Insurance to Settle ‘Botched Takeover’ Lawsuit
Hewlett-Packard Co. agreed to pay $100 million out of insurance proceeds to settle a lawsuit filed by shareholders who claimed they lost money in the botched takeover of Autonomy Corp., according to ...
Lawmakers Urge U.S. Retaliation For Massive Hacking of Worker Data
The Obama administration should retaliate for a cyber-attack on federal employee records that was the worst breach the U.S. government has ever suffered, members of Congress said on Sunday. "There ...
For years, the insurance industry has been working to reduce the friction that slows down underwriting, claims, and servicing. Now,...
Iceland to Hedge Funds: Don’t Sue Over Planned Tax on Failed Bank Assets
The prime minister of Iceland said any hedge fund planning to challenge the legal basis of a planned tax on failed bank assets should think again. "If they wanted to make some kind of an example out ...
CNA’s 5 Ways to Strengthen Cyber Risk Management
A new CNA blog item offers a number of tips for businesses to strengthen their management of cyber risks. Written by CNA's David Hallstrom, director of Information Risk Insurance, the write-up ...
RIMS: Enterprise Risk Management Does Indeed Help Spot Cyber Risks
A whopping 77 percent of risk management professionals credit enterprise risk management with helping them spot cyber risks at their companies. That is one of the major findings from the Risk and ...
Insurers Collaborate to Help Underserved Markets
In January, industry heavyweights from the property/casualty insurance underwriting and brokerage world announced a plan to improve risk protection for underserved markets in developing countries by ...
Building Customer Loyalty: It’s About Emotions, Not Just Fast-Food Delivery Times
"People may forget what you said. People may forget what you did. But they will never forget how you made them feel." Harley Manning cited the words credited to renowned poet Maya Angelou in a ...
EXOR Will Urge PartnerRe Shareholders to Reject AXIS Merger
EXOR lost its bid in a Bermuda court to obtain PartnerRe's non-public ownership details, losing access to information that would help it lobby shareholders directly about its $6.8 billion all-cash ...