Accounting & Tax
Liberty Mutual Takes on Uber Coverage in Three Regions
Liberty Mutual Insurance will provide coverage for Uber drivers and passengers throughout New England, South Carolina and Puerto Rico as part of the company's 2020 auto insurance programs, which ...
Financial Firms, Regulators Urged to Be More Agile on Cybersecurity Risks
Cleveland Federal Reserve President Loretta Mester said on Thursday that financial firms and regulators should be more agile and share information to better combat cybersecurity threats. Financial ...
IRS Makes Settlement Offer to Taxpayers Involved in ‘Dirty’ Micro-Captive Insurance
The Internal Revenue Service said it is mailing a time-limited settlement offer for certain taxpayers under audit who participated in what the IRS calls "abusive micro-captive insurance" ...
Indiana University Research Reveals Problems of Fewer Financial Reports
President Donald Trump on Friday indicated that he has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to review changing its reporting requirements, away from quarterly reports to semi-annual reports. ...
P/C Insurers, Reinsurers Face Earnings Volatility Due to New Accounting Requirement: Fitch Ratings
Many insurers and reinsurers are facing some earnings volatility in 2018 due to a change in accounting requirements for equity securities, Fitch Ratings said in new market commentary. According to ...
AIG Shifts Some Employees to EY in Managed Tax Services Collaboration Deal
American International Group and Ernst & Young will collaborate on managed tax services and technology in a new five-year agreement that also involves a transfer of some employees to EY. Their ...
CEO Zyskind’s Family Injects $300M into AmTrust
AmTrust Financial Services Inc., a provider of specialty property and casualty insurance including workers compensation, surged in New York trading after members of the chief executive officer's ...
AmTrust Spent More than $33M to Clean Up Accounting Issues
AmTrust Financial released its 2017 Q1 earnings statement on May 8, after pursuing an audit and having to restate a few years of earnings due to financial reporting concerns. Cleaning up its ...