Regulation & Compliance
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit by 11 States and Texas Bank Against Dodd-Frank
A lawsuit by 11 states and a Texas bank challenging the Dodd-Frank law's financial regulation overhaul was dismissed by a federal judge. U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle in Washington Thursday ...
Workers Compensation Market: Challenges Remain Despite Recent Improvements
The market for workers compensation insurance is in a recovery phase of the underwriting cycle after several years of poor results. In particular, premium rates continued to increase meaningfully ...
P/C Insurers Face Challenges If Terrorism Risk Insurance Is Not Renewed: Fitch
If Congress fails to renew or makes significant changes to the federal government's terrorism risk insurance program, some insurers will be forced to significantly alter their underwriting portfolios ...
Corporate Risk Consultants Uneasy After China’s Detention of Investigators
The detention by Chinese authorities of a British corporate investigator and his American wife in the wake of a corruption probe into pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has had a chilling effect on ...
Ralph Nader Planning Tort Law Museum
Ralph Nader has a new cause. After dedicating nearly half a century to battling businesses over almost everything from dangerous products to the influence of money in politics, the consumer advocate ...
How Most of the Insurance Industry Escaped the Worst of the Financial Crisis
At a time when efforts are underway to require additional supervision of some large insurers, a new government report concludes that the insurance industry's own practices and the policies of state ...
As New York City Comptroller, ‘Sheriff of Wall Street’ Spitzer Would Face Limits
Eliot Spitzer promises that if he gets elected New York City comptroller, he'll reimagine the office, using about $80 billion in pension stock holdings to keep corporations well-managed and socially ...
First Storm Surge-Only Bond Gets S&P Rating
Standard & Poor's Ratings Services announced Tuesday that it rated the first storm surge catastrophe bond—MetroCat Re Ltd.—a $200 million issuance sponsored by First Mutual Transportation ...