U.S.
For CNA, Bad Weather and Division Sale Hamper Q1 Numbers
The biggest hit to CNA's 2014 first-quarter net income comes from short-term costs relating to the planned sale of its Continental Assurance Co. life and group insurance business to Wilton Re ...Hartford Unloads Japan Operations for $895M
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. agreed to sell its Japanese operation to Orix Corp. as Chief Executive Officer Liam McGee narrows the U.S. insurer's focus. Orix will pay about $895 million for ...
Top 10 Countries in Manufacturing; U.S. is ‘Rising Star’
Call it the comeback kid. A new ranking of the competitiveness of the world's top 25 exporting countries says the United States is once again a "rising star" of global manufacturing thanks to falling ...
Former KPMG Partner Gets Jail Time for Insider Trading
Former KPMG LLP senior partner Scott London, who had provided tips to a friend about the accounting firm's clients, was sentenced to 14 months in prison on an insider trading charge by a federal ...
El Niño and Hurricanes By the Numbers: Assured Research Analysis
Forecasters are weighing in on the chances of an El Niño event developing later this year, with some assigning probabilities as high as 65 percent. But what exactly does that mean for U.S. property ...Subprime Auto Lender May Have Exposed Clients’ Personal Info
Benjamin Lawsky, New York's top banking regulator, sued Condor Capital Corp., claiming the subprime auto lender stole millions of dollars from low-income customers and risked exposing their personal ...
FBI Alert: Healthcare Sector Faces Cybersecurity Risks
The FBI has warned healthcare providers their cybersecurity systems are lax compared to other sectors, making them vulnerable to attacks by hackers searching for Americans' personal medical records ...
Hacking Threat Is Real For Global Shipping Fleet
The next hacker playground: the open seas—and the oil tankers and container vessels that ship 90 percent of the goods moved around the planet. In this internet age, as more devices are hooked up ...