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Uber Expands Customer Monitoring, Data Collection
Uber Technologies Inc.'s new privacy policy released last week is shorter, easier to read and more expansive than before. The car booking company now more clearly tells its customers it can pretty ...
Texas Insurers Disappointed in Hail Claims Bill Failure
With the legislative session winding down in Texas, a measure sought by the insurance industry that its proponents say would help rein in litigation related to property insurance claims has died in ...Markel Names Clancy Chief Operating Officer for Claims
Markel Corp. has named Mike Clancy as Chief Operating Officer, Markel Claims. In Clancy's new position, he will be based in Richmond, Virginia and report to Nick Conca, Chief Claims Officer. Clancy ...
What State Insurance Regulators Say About Cybersecurity
In April, the Cybersecurity Task Force of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners adopted "Principles for Effective Cybersecurity: Insurance Regulatory Guidance," derived from similar ...
BP Drops Fight Over $750M Deepwater Horizon Insurance
BP Plc won't seek to access Transocean Ltd.'s $750 million insurance policy for the Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded while drilling a BP well in 2010, sparking the worst offshore spill in U.S. ...
Rideshare Apps Slug It Out vs. Each Other, Taxis and World in New York
Uber and Lyft are among the tech companies pushing back at proposed rules by New York City's Taxi and Limousine Commission to regulate car service apps. Uber says the rules break federal law because ...
Farmers Rolls Out Broad Ridesharing Endorsement for California
Farmers Insurance will become the first large California insurer to start offering a ridesharing insurance product on Thursday. In an announcement made at the Los Angeles office of California ...
Low Interest Rates ‘Quite Harmful’ to Insurers: Blackrock CEO
Lowering interest rates around the world to boost the global economy has reached a point where it is now "quite harmful" to clients, including pension funds and insurers, BlackRock Inc. Chairman and ...