The confession of cheating that’s embroiled Volkswagen AG in one of the biggest scandals in auto industry history came on a cool California morning, on the sidelines of an academic conference focused on green transportation. After more than a year …
The U.S. and China announced agreement on broad anti-hacking principles aimed at stopping the theft of corporate trade secrets though President Barack Obama pointedly said he has not ruled out invoking sanctions for violators. After a morning of meetings with …
Zurich Insurance Group announced that it has been selected as the insurance associate to CityMobil2, an EU-funded research project that is staging tests of automated road transport systems with self-driving buses across Europe. The announcement explained that the “project is …
A sanitation company at the center of a major U.S. labor board ruling that could force companies like McDonald’s Corp. to negotiate directly with franchise and contract workers has refused to bargain with workers hired by a staffing agency. The …
Residents of Louisiana’s Lafayette Parish have one final chance to appeal proposed FEMA flood maps. The Advocate reports it’s the first major revision in two decades for documents used to set home elevations and insurance rates in flood zones. The …
The Geneva Association announced the appointment of Dr. Fabian Sommerrock as Deputy Secretary General and Head of Insight. He joins the Association from Roland Berger Strategy Consultants where he was a principal at the Roland Berger Financial Services Competence Center …
CoreLogic, a residential property information, analytics and data-enabled services provider, has released an expanded version of its natural catastrophe risk management program, which features a probabilistic flood model to analyze the potential damage and financial impact at the property-level from …
The U.S. regulator overseeing the replacement of Takata Corp. air bags is considering an order that would expand the recalls and has contacted seven manufacturers who could be affected, including Volkswagen AG and Tesla Motors Inc. Takata identified the seven …
Texas Associates Insurors announced that Erik Peterson has joined the agency as a risk and insurance advisor, specializing in medical device, servicing and malpractice risk. Peterson has experience in the industrial and medical device industries. His tenure in the insurance …
Volkswagen AG was accused in a lawsuit of scheming to defraud U.S. investors who paid artificially inflated prices for the company’s foreign shares while it cheated on vehicle emissions tests. In what may be the first investor suit over Volkswagen’s …