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FTC Urges Congress To Lift Veil on Data Broker Activity
Companies known as data brokers collect and sell information about "nearly all" U.S. consumers, drawing potentially harmful conclusions about them largely without their knowledge, U.S. regulators ...
New Calif. WC State Fund Head Is Zenith, CNA and AIG Vet
The State Compensation Insurance Fund Board of Directors on Tuesday named Vernon Steiner as the new president and CEO of California's largest workers' compensation provider. The appointment is on a ...AIG Warrants Leap To Record, Benefiting Fairholme Capital Management
American International Group Inc. warrants jumped to a record, benefiting investors like Bruce Berkowitz's Fairholme Capital Management LLC, which held the securities for years. The contracts ...
Travelers’ A.M. Best Financial Strength Ratings Soar
Travelers and most of its subsidiaries saw their already stellar financial strength ratings from A.M. Best get even better. This was based, in part, on the insurer's ability to generate solid ...
Lloyd’s America U.S. Chief Agrees ‘Climate Change is Here’
Despite risking offense to non-believers, Hank Watkins didn't hesitate when he was asked if climate change was upon us. Watkins, president of Lloyd's America, talked about an extensive report Lloyd's ...
BP to Appeal Oil Spill Claims Settlement to Supreme Court
BP Plc, seeking to avoid paying what it says would be billions of dollars in unjustified claims, will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a court order on a settlement tied to its 2010 Gulf of ...
NOAA Forecasts 3 to 6 Hurricanes for Atlantic Storm Season
Three to six hurricanes will probably form in the Atlantic this year in what is forecast to be a near- to below-normal storm season. Eight to 13 named systems are expected in the six-month season ...
Brazil’s Historic Coffee Drought Spreads Industry Uncertainty
In Santos, where Brazil's normally bustling physical coffee trade is clustered in a handful of small buildings near the port, the family-owned brokers and multinational companies that move almost ...