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Citizens CFO Binnun Returning To Private Sector
Following a six-year tenure as Citizens Property Insurance Corporation's chief financial officer, Sharon Binnun has accepted a position in the private sector and will resign her post effective July ...
Distracted Walking: Injuries Soar For Pedestrians On Phones
More than 1,500 pedestrians were estimated to be treated in emergency rooms in 2010 for injuries related to using a cell phone while walking, according to a new nationwide study. The number of such ...
Analysis: Optimism Fading, Brazil Protests Put Leaders On Alert
When more than 200,000 protesters took to the streets across Brazil on Monday night, they demanded a dizzying array of improvements—from halting the fast rise of prices to cleaning up government ...
Unrest In Turkey Highlights Terror Coverage Gaps, Willis Exec Says
With acts of terrorism defined in different ways under standalone terrorism insurance policies, insureds could find themselves without coverage in situations more akin to political violence than ...
Bernanke Says Fed Likely To Reduce Stimulus This Year
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday the U.S. economy is expanding strongly enough for the central bank to begin slowing the pace of its bond-buying stimulus later this year. ...
SEC Will Seek Admission of Wrongdoing in More Cases, White Says
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will seek more admissions of wrongdoing from defendants as a condition of settling enforcement cases, the agency's chairman said. SEC Chairman Mary Jo ...
Texas Wind Insurance Association Expects Surplus For Year-End 2013
The nonprofit, state-supervised property insurance agency for coastal Texas counties is expected to shore up its finances by the end of the year, the group told a state House panel on Monday. Pete ...
eBay CEO Confident Of Getting China Payments License
eBay Inc.'s PayPal division will become the first foreign company to secure a payments license in China, CEO John Donahoe predicted, but he cautioned that the e-commerce giant is taking a cautious ...