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IRC Study Finds More Auto Injury Claimants Hiring Attorneys
A new study from the Insurance Research Council (IRC) found that the percentage of auto-related personal injury protection (PIP) claimants represented by attorneys rose to 36 percent in 2012—up ...
Senate Panel Approves Bill Protecting Firms Sharing Hacker-Threat Data
A Senate panel approved a bill that would give Bank of America Corp., Visa Inc. and other companies operating critical U.S. computer systems legal protections for sharing hacking threats with each ...
Painkiller Prescribing by State: Highest in South; Florida Reverses Trend: CDC
Health care providers wrote 259 million prescriptions for opioid painkillers in 2012, and providers in some states prescribed far more painkillers than those in other states, according to Vital ...
Private Insurers Taking to South Carolina Coast
More private insurers are selling wind coverage to South Carolina coastal property owners, leading to a decline in the population of the state's windpool. The South Carolina Wind and Hail ...
Sparking F-35 Fighter Jet Spurs Pre-Air Show Inspection Push
U.S. and British military officials are working on a joint directive to require mandatory inspections of engines on all Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets, after an Air Force F-35A caught fire at ...
Insurance Trade Agreements Are Good for Consumers and Markets: PCI Opinion
You can be sure critics are already getting ready to pounce on a preliminary draft of the financial services section of the Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA), invoking the usual rhetoric about the ...
North Carolina, New England Spared Damage from Category 2 Arthur
Businesses on two of North Carolina's barrier islands hoped to salvage part of the holiday weekend after Arthur clipped the state without causing major damage before churning north toward Canada. ...
Supreme Court Deals Blow to Madoff Victims
Victims of the Ponzi schemes of Bernard Madoff and Allen Stanford, two of the largest in U.S. history, suffered setbacks on Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear appeals in two cases ...