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Small Businesses Avoid Business Interruption Coverage: Nationwide Survey
Nearly 75 percent of small businesses say they don't have a disaster recovery plan in place. For companies with fewer than 50 employees, just one in five – or 18 percent – have one, according to ...
Executives On The Move at QBE, SCOR and Hamilton Insurance Group
A veteran executive from Chubb is joining QBE Insurance as managing director of its Asia Pacific region, effective Sept. 1. Mark Lingafelter's new responsibilities include continued execution of the ...
Liberty Mutual Launches Safety Climate Surveys For Commercial Lines Clients
Liberty Mutual Insurance said it will start offering safety climate surveys to its commercial lines customers so they can learn from employees how safe they believe the workplace actually is. The ...
CEO Personally Liable for $148M in Unfair Buyout: Delaware Judge
The billionaire chief executive of Dole Food Co. and his top lieutenant must pay $148.2 million of damages to shareholders they shortchanged when the produce company went private in 2013, a Delaware ...
Target Will Not Face SEC Enforcement Action Over Data Breach
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission won't pursue an enforcement action against Target Corp. after hackers stole data on 40 million credit and debit cards during the 2013 holiday shopping ...
Women Rise in Manager Ranks; Black Managers Fall in Number: EEOC
Women's representation in U.S. management ranks is slowly increasing, while the share of African-American managers has slipped since the last recession, according to a report released last week by ...
Nestle Suit Alleges Slave Labor Used For Fish in Fancy Feast Cat Food
Nestle SA was sued over claims that its Fancy Feast cat food contains fish from a Thai supplier that uses slave labor. The complaint against the Swiss food giant follows one last week accusing Costco ...
S&P, Fitch Differ on Whether Reinsurance Price Declines Are Moderating
Two of the P/C industry's ratings entities – Fitch and Standard & Poor's – differ as to whether they see a moderation of ongoing reinsurance price declines. Fitch sees the downward trend ...