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Federal Financial Crisis Warning Office Struggles to Be Relevant
In June 2009, a small group of academics sent an envoy to a Washington, D.C., think tank to pitch their vision for a research office to help the nation avoid the next financial crisis. The idea was ...
Nine-Month Results Show P/C Industry Headed for Best Post-Crisis Year
With a combined ratio of 95.8 through nine months translating into $10.5 billion of underwriting profit, the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry is on track to report its best year in the ...
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Are Drivers Naughty or Nice? State Farm Finds Aggressive Driving at Holiday Time
Will drivers be naughty or nice behind the wheel this holiday season? State Farm and KRC Research conducted an online survey of 1,000 U.S drivers over 18 years old and learned there's room for ...
Ally Financial Allowed to Keep Insurance, Auto Auction Units
Ally Financial Inc., the auto lender majority owned by the U.S. government, won regulatory approval to change its holding-company status, allowing the firm to keep an insurance business and a ...
Biggest Hurdles Yet to Come in Strengthening Global Financial System
"What a week," tweeted European Union financial services chief Michel Barnier last Thursday after securing an agreement on how to wind up failed banks without making the region's taxpayers foot the ...
Target Breach Shows U.S. Lagging in Security; CEO Apologizes
The security breach of credit- and debit-card data at Target Corp. is evidence of the increasing threats retailers face and a reminder that the U.S. lags behind much of the world in securing personal ...
Ex-AIG Executives Greenberg, Smith Pursue New York Ethics Complaint
Former American International Group executives are pursuing an ethics complaint against the New York prosecutors still bringing the charges that cost them their jobs at the insurance giant in 2005. ...
Appeals Court Reinstates Alien Tort Lawsuit Against Multinational Firms
A lawsuit against a unit of Nestle SA and two other companies alleging children were forced to work as slave labor on cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast was reinstated by a federal appeals court. The ...