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29 04, 2022

People Moves: AXA Reappoints Buberl as CEO; Gosset-Grainville Named Chair

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Thomas Buberl has been reappointed as AXA’s chief executive officer, while Antoine Gosset-Grainville has been name chairman of the board of directors, succeeding Denis Duverne, who has retired. Burberl first became CEO and a director of AXA in September 2016. …

2 05, 2022

Colorado Jury Awards Nearly $9M in Fertility Fraud Case

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A jury has awarded nearly $9 million to three families who accused a Colorado fertility doctor of using his own sperm to inseminate three mothers who requested anonymous donors. The jury found that Dr. Paul B. Jones and his clinic, …

29 04, 2022

Is AXIS Selling Its Reinsurance Business? Some Say: Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire

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AXIS Capital Holding’s chief executive officer would not comment on reports that the company is looking to sell its reinsurance unit. But a market commentary from Wells Fargo Securities said: “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” During a first quarter earnings …

29 04, 2022

Generali’s CEO Donnet Survives Leadership Challenge From Rebel Investors

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Philippe Donnet kept his job as chief executive of Italian insurer Generali on Friday when he won the backing of shareholders in the face of a challenge from a rebel investor. The company’s board nominees, backed by leading shareholder Mediobanca, …

29 04, 2022

SEC Sues Brazilian Miner Vale Over ‘False and Misleading’ Claims About Safety of Dams

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday sued Brazilian miner Vale for allegedly making false and misleading disclosures about the safety of its dams ahead of a 2019 disaster that killed 270 people. Beginning in 2016, Vale manipulated …

29 04, 2022

McKinsey Chief Says Firm Failed to Identify Opioid Epidemic

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The head of McKinsey & Co. acknowledged that it failed to see the opioid epidemic unfolding while simultaneously doing work for drug regulators and makers of painkillers including OxyContin in his first appearance before lawmakers investigating the consulting firm’s actions. …

29 04, 2022

TPA’s Quick Denials of First Responders’ Workers’ Comp Claims Draws Penalty

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A workers’ compensation insurer must pay $100,000 under an agreement with Vermont state regulators because its claims administrator gave short shrift to claims for post-traumatic stress disorder and other occupational diseases. Acadia Insurance Co. on April 18 reached an agreement …

29 04, 2022

U.S. Solar Industry Warns of Slowdown Due to Supply Chain Disruptions, Tariff Uncertainty

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The U.S. solar industry is warning of a big slowdown in project installations this year as global supply chain disruptions and the threat of new U.S. tariffs on panel imports from Southeast Asia hit home. U.S. power company Southern Co. …

2 05, 2022

EEOC Sues Michigan Foods Company Over Alleged Sexual Harassment

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Eden Foods, Inc., an organic foods company headquartered in Clinton, Michigan that claims to be the premier natural foods company in the Americas, violated federal law by subjecting female employees to repeated sexual harassment, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission …

29 04, 2022

Musk Loses Bid to End SEC Agreement on Oversight of Tesla Tweets

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A U.S. judge slammed Elon Musk for trying to escape a settlement with regulators requiring oversight of his Tesla Inc. tweets, saying the billionaire was “bemoaning” the 2018 deal now that he felt Tesla was “invincible.” The April 27 ruling …