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Family of American killed in 737 Max crash sues Boeing, Ethiopian Airlines
SC refuses to entertain plea challenging Aadhaar Ordinance
Monsoon rains seen below normal this year: Skymet
Air pollution kills 1.2 mn Indians in a year, third biggest cause of death
Congress Party promises `Right to Healthcare Act’
AIG CEO Duperreault was paid $20.9 million in 2018, half of 2017 compensation
At its annual meeting in 2018, only 62 percent of shareholder votes backed the pay, an unusually low number compared with the roughly 95 percent support that major U.S. companies typically receive in such votes. So-called say-on-pay votes are non-binding but low results often spur directors into action to guard against losing their own seats.
3 major automakers partner to develop autonomous vehicle safety standards, testing
General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. said in a statement they are joining forces with automotive engineering group SAE International to establish autonomous vehicle “safety guiding principles to help inform standards development.”The group will also “work to safely advance testing, pre-competitive development and deployment,” they added.
Vipin Anand takes charge as MD of LIC
The two other posts MDS will also fall vacant in couple of months as B Venugopal and Hemant Bhargava will be retiring in May 2019 and July 2019 respectively and the the Banks Board Bureau (BBB) is likely to conduct the interviews of senior officials of the corporation after the elections are over in May end. .
Apr 1 renewals:Rational pricing highlights reinsurance market’s stability and maturity,Willis Re
More US industries depend on weather tracking
About one-third of the U.S.’s $18 trillion gross national product is generated by industries vulnerable to changes in the weather. There were 14 weather events that caused at least $1 billion in damages in the U.S. last year, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information. That’s more than the 6.2 per year average from 1980 to 2018.
IRDA set to allow claim settlement in installments in healh & PA policies
IRDA has favoured the concept of payments of claims in installments in respect of personal accident policies issued by general and health insurers and benefit based health insurance policies issued by all insurers as claims offer an income in the hands of the claimants for a reasonable period of time on the happening of the contingent event insured under an underlying policy.
Ethiopian crash could be largest nonwar aviation reinsurance claim: Willis Re
Liability claims for the passengers’ loss of life and in relation to the grounded aircraft could total around a billion dollars, James Vickers, chairman of Willis Re International, told Reuters by phone, a large sum for the aviation reinsurance market which Vickers said was “very small and very, very specialist.”
GIC Re’s move to hike reinsurance prm challenged in Telengana HC
The writ petition of the Hyderabad based Laurus has taken a stand that the recent circular of the GIC Re, hiking the reinsurance rates, is illegal arbitrary and violative of Articles 14 and 191g of the Constitution of India and also contrary to the existing rules and regulations of the insurance regulator IRDA.
Zuckerberg calls for global internet regulations to address harmful content
The Facebook chief’s statement was in keeping with his efforts this year to frame the company’s more critical problems as part of broader issues for the internet at large. Zuckerberg’s willingness to embrace regulation could pave the way toward taking the thorniest problems about speech and privacy out of Facebook’s hands — or at least give the company more time to solve them.
Jeff Bezos’ phone hacked by Saudis to access personal data: Investigator
Foreign investors pull out Rs 44,500 crore from Indian market in 2018-19
India has huge potential, the real question is speed of growth: Indra Nooyi
“As long as you go into a country and develop a local model and execute it locally, you live within the rules of that country. Don’t compromise your corporate governance principles.You have got to be aware of politics, be sensitive to all the minefields, but don’t play in them, don’t take a voice in them because that is a losing proposition,” she said, adding that if companies have knowledge of what’s going on but they just focus on doing their business, they will be successful.