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UK Website Selling Online Taxi Insurance
On Thursday, GoTaxi announced that it had launched a new taxi insurance website in the U.K. The website's objective is to match taxi and cab drivers who are looking for all types of taxi insurance ...
Scientists Report Solar Blasts Narrowly Missed Earth in 2012
Fierce solar blasts that could have badly damaged electrical grids and disabled satellites in space narrowly missed Earth in 2012, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. The bursts would have wreaked ...
As the insurance market continues to stabilize, the next phase of the market will reward independent agencies that can respond...
Nearly Half of Security Execs Say Insurers Alone Should Pay Costs of Physical Terror Attacks
Forty-seven percent of security executives across of a variety of industries believe that private insurance companies alone should pay for worker injuries and property damage in the aftermath of a ...
Judge Rules for Google; Privacy Plaintiffs Not a Class
Google Inc. won a significant legal victory as a U.S. judge decided not to combine several lawsuits that accuse the Internet search company of violating the privacy rights of hundreds of millions of ...
Public Service Exits California Workers Comp
Public Service Mutual Insurance Co.'s exit from California's workers compensation market isn't a reflection of the health of the state's workers' compensation system, according to the California ...
Top U.S. CEOs See Compensation Increases Shrink
Big U.S. companies appear to have handed out smaller increases in compensation to their chief executives in 2013 than in 2012, mainly as a result of reduced grants of stock options, according to an ...
UK Spending Cuts Could Mean More Flood Re Claims: Fitch
Uncertainty about UK government spending on flood defenses means the industry-managed Flood Re program for pooling flood risk may face higher-than-expected claims in the future, according to Fitch ...