All the headlines from our China Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 16 2011 // A Florida judge has ruled that a homeowners’ policy covers damage from tainted Chinese drywall. Hillsborough County Circuit Judge Robert Foster said he found no exclusion in the Teachers Insurance Co. policy that...
May 16 2011 // Federal safety officials have stopped recommending removal of all electrical wiring in homes with problem drywall, a change in the safety protocol that could reduce the cost of remediation.The U.S. Consumer Product Safety...
May 9 2011 // A Florida judge has ruled that a couple’s damage from tainted Chinese drywall is covered by their homeowner insurance policy. Hillsborough County Circuit Judge Robert Foster this week said he found no exclusion in...
Apr 27 2011 // A settlement agreement has been reached with a New Orleans, La.-based supplier of tainted Chinese drywall in the multi-district litigation (MDL 2047) over the product.Interior/Exterior Building Supply L.P. and the...
Apr 22 2011 // World Trade Organization members face a somber Easter Sunday because of a fight over manufacturing trade between the United States and major emerging economies like China, India and Brazil that could finally kill...
Apr 20 2011 // Gradually rising sea levels caused by global warming over the past 30 years have contributed to a growing number of disasters along China’s coast, state news agency Xinhua said on Wednesday.Sea levels along...
Apr 18 2011 // Backed by government policy and growing public support, demand for technology that is both clean and sustainable has increased substantially in the United States, Europe, Asia and other parts of the world over the last...
Apr 14 2011 // Global reinsurance broker Aon Benfield and Shanghai Typhoon Institute (STI) of China Meteorological Administration – the only state-funded typhoon research institute in China – have entered into an exclusive strategic...
Apr 11 2011 // Goldman Sachs has bought a 12.02 percent stake worth more than $900 million in China’s Taikang Life Insurance Co. Ltd, giving the Wall Street giant a foothold into the world’s biggest insurance...
Apr 8 2011 // Goldman Sachs has bought a 12.02 percent stake worth more than $900 million in China’s Taikang Life Insurance Co Ltd, giving the Wall Street giant a foothold into the world’s biggest insurance...
Apr 7 2011 // Another Strong Earthquake Shakes Japan’s Ruined Northeast CoastA strong earthquake of magnitude 7.4 shook the northeast of Japan late on Thursday, and a tsunami warning was issued for the coast already devastated by...
Apr 4 2011 // Federal safety officials have stopped recommending removal of all electrical wiring in homes with problem drywall, a change in the safety protocol that could reduce the cost of remediation.The U.S. Consumer Product Safety...
Mar 31 2011 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has released an enhanced typhoon model for the Northwest Pacific Basin. AIR said the “model, which was released in Version 12.5 of AIR’s CLASIC/2™ and CATRADER®...
Mar 31 2011 // Liberty Mutual Group announced that, through its wholly owned subsidiary Liberty Insurance Company Limited, it has been granted approval to establish a branch in Guangdong Province by the China Insurance Regulatory...
Mar 25 2011 // A bulletin from Lockton notes that the UK Ambassador to China Sebastian Wood “lauded the work of international insurance brokers helping China to further develop its insurance markets. he was speaking at the official...
Mar 22 2011 // Federal safety officials have stopped recommending removal of all electrical wiring in homes with problem drywall, a change in the safety protocol that could reduce the cost of remediation for many homes.The U.S. Consumer...
Mar 22 2011 // The European Union is pressing China to relax restrictions on foreign ownership of its banks in order to gain wider access to the Chinese financial markets, the region’s Internal Markets Commissioner said on...
Mar 22 2011 // Euler Hermes, the trade credit insurer of the Allianz Group, and China Pacific Insurance (Group) Co., Ltd. (CPIC Group), one of China’s largest insurers, announced that they “have combined their expertise to...
Mar 11 2011 // U.S. officials believe China’s insurance regulator passed on proprietary information about AIG to its Chinese rivals during the American firm’s collapse in 2008, according to unpublished diplomatic cables.The...
Mar 4 2011 // Repairs are beginning in Louisiana on the first home that contains defective drywall made by a major manufacturer. The home to be repaired by Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin is in Covington. The repairs are slated to begin...