The costs of cutting greenhouse gases and who will pay for doing it are likely to be the key issues at a major U.N.-backed climate change meeting of scientists and diplomats in the Thai capital this week, participants said Sunday. …
A moderate earthquake rattled parts of southeast England Saturday morning, toppling chimneys from houses and rousing residents from their beds. Several thousand people were left without power after the quake in the county of Kent. The only reported casualty was …
Transatlantic Holdings, Inc. reported that its net income for the first quarter of 2007 increased 5.2 percent to $107.2 million, or $1.61 per common share (diluted), compared to $102.0 million, or $1.54 per common share (diluted), in the first quarter …
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services reacted to the announcement of the joint venture agreement between Ceska pojistovna a.s. (Ceska) and Italy’s Generali Group (See IJ web site April 27) by placing the Czech insurer’s “BBB” counterparty credit and insurer financial …
ACE European Group announced from its London office that its Commercial Premises Pollution Liability (PPL) product is available online via its fully automated e-commerce platform – ACE Online. ACE said it is “the first in the market to offer brokers …
New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine will forgo his state health insurance and spend hundreds of thousands of his own money to pay for his medical care from a serious car accident, a spokesman said last Friday. The spokesman for …
A Kentucky-Tennessee consortium advanced efforts to attract the proposed federal National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility to Pulaski County, Ky., meeting with a delegation of U. S. Department of Homeland Security and U. S. Department of Agriculture officials. Kentucky Fifth District …
Kentucky storms that caused flooding, mudslides, power outages, damages to public and private property and road closures prompted Gov. Ernie Fletcher to declare a state of emergency. The severe weather which spread across Eastern Kentucky on April 14, affected property …
Gov. Sonny Perdue said additional federal funds were authorized to assist in fighting the “Kneeknocker Fire” that has flared up again in Georgia’s Brantley County, just outside the city limits of Nahunta. The funds were requested by the Georgia Emergency …
Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty urged Floridians to purchase flood insurance to protect their homes. McCarty’s warning comes in anticipation of the 2007 hurricane season which officially begins June 1. The Commissioner also wants Floridians to be aware that there …