All the headlines from our Aviation Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 21 2017 // Britain’s financial watchdog is investigating five insurance brokers over information-sharing on aviation insurance, the companies said, in one of the first cases of its kind by the watchdog.Aon, Jardine Lloyd...
Apr 18 2017 // The video of a passenger being dragged by an officer from a United Express flight shined an unwanted spotlight on the little-known police force that guards Chicago’s two main airports and could threaten the...
Apr 13 2017 // On Monday, one of the top stories on Twitter (and nearly everywhere else) was about a doctor who was violently removed from an overbooked United Airlines flight to make room for a company staffer. Other passengers filmed...
Apr 13 2017 // Lawyers for the passenger dragged from a United Airlines plane in Chicago filed an emergency request with an Illinois state court on Wednesday to require the carrier to preserve video recordings and other evidence related...
Apr 10 2017 // Willis Towers Watson has introduced CyFly, an insurance solution specifically tailored to cover cyber exposure affecting the airline industry.The recent Willis Towers Watson Industry Risk Index identified failure of...
Apr 7 2017 // S&P Global Ratings has raised its long-term counterparty credit and financial strength ratings on Aviabel Cie. Belge d’Assurances Aviation to “A” from “A-“, following the completion of its...
Apr 5 2017 // Defective product/work quality issues, crashes and human error are listed as the top causes of liability loss for businesses, according to a report published by Allianz Global Corporate Specialty (AGCS).Collectively, these...
Mar 29 2017 // The world’s largest maker of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), China’s DJI, has proposed an electronic identification framework for UAS that would allow authorities in the United States to identify drone owners...
Mar 16 2017 // Hank sat impassively on a Virginia Tech athletic field, ready to take it on the chin for the future of drone commerce.About 30 yards away, an eight-rotor unmanned copter hovered, buzzing like a swarm of bees. The 21-pound...
Mar 14 2017 // A late-winter storm is about to bury the eastern U.S. in snow.Airlines have canceled thousands of flights, wholesale power prices surged and natural gas futures rallied as the storm prepared to spin up the Atlantic Coast,...
Mar 10 2017 // An appeals court says an aviation company was wrong to reject a workers’ compensation claim from a woman who lost her leg on the job.Starr Aviation had said Modesty Colquitt wasn’t entitled to compensation...
Mar 9 2017 // Officials say they’re on schedule to open the new home base for the U.S. government’s “hurricane hunter” aircraft before the Atlantic hurricane season begins.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
Mar 6 2017 // Reports of drone safety violations continued to increase during 2016, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. There were 1,274 reports from February through September last year, compared with 874 for the same...
Mar 2 2017 // XL Catlin has added a kidnap, ransom & extortion (KRE) crisis endorsement to its general aviation insurance coverage for pilots, aircraft carriers and other aviation companies address global travel safety concerns.With...
Mar 1 2017 // Willis Towers Watson has concluded its negotiations with OAAGC, the French aviation brokerage, and has now completed the acquisition of its team and book of business.Willis Towers Watson said the deal makes it the leading...
Feb 28 2017 // The number of laser attacks on aircraft is still “dangerously high,” although incidents are down slightly from 2015, said the British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA).BALPA was commenting on data...
Feb 24 2017 // A breach that allowed 11 people to walk through an unattended security checkpoint lane at one of the nation’s busiest airports has some travelers scratching their heads about how this could happen even with the...
Feb 24 2017 // Reports of drone safety violations continued to increase during 2016. There were 1,274 reports from February through September last year, compared with 874 for the same period in 2015 — a 46 percent increase.The Federal...
Feb 22 2017 // Willis Towers Watson has entered into exclusive negotiations with OAAGC, the French aviation brokerage, to acquire its team and book of business.Paris-based OAAGC (Office d’Assurances Aériennes G. de Cugnac) was...
Feb 13 2017 // The International Drone Racing Association (IDRA) has launched a primary UAV aircraft liability insurance policy to cover drone pilots worldwide. Included with the rollout of IDRA’s membership service, each IDRA...