All the headlines from our China Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 1 2009 // China is helping American officials investigate reports of contaminated Chinese drywall after thousands of American homeowners complained the building material made them sick or damaged their houses, a top U.S. safety...
Oct 30 2009 // Federal investigators have been unable to prove a definite link between imported Chinese drywall and home damage and health issues. But they aren’t done investigating.The Consumer Product Safety Commission said that...
Oct 27 2009 // China is helping American officials investigate reports of contaminated Chinese drywall after thousands of American homeowners complained the building material made them sick or damaged their houses, a top U.S. safety...
Oct 23 2009 // Florida’s state-backed property insurer has taken a second look at a home with corrosion from defective Chinese drywall and decided to renew its homeowners’ insurance policy on the house after all.Citizens...
Oct 16 2009 // James and Maria Ivory’s dreams of a relaxing retirement on Florida’s Gulf Coast were put on hold when they discovered their new home had been built with Chinese drywall that emits sulfuric fumes and corrodes...
Oct 15 2009 // Three Virginia lawmakers are asking lenders to help homeowners whose homes were built with suspect drywall imported from China. U.S. Sen. Mark Warner and Congressmen Bobby Scott and Glenn Nye Reps issued their appeal...
Oct 13 2009 // American International Group is to sell its Taiwan life insurance unit for $2.15 billion, marking the largest disposal since a U.S. government bailout saved the insurer from collapse last year.The sale of Nan Shan Life on...
Sep 29 2009 // U.N. climate talks kicked off Monday in Bangkok with leaders calling for delegates to break the deadlock over a global warming deal and warning failure to act would leave future generations fighting for...
Sep 23 2009 // China laid out a plan to curb carbon emissions by 2020 and U.S. President Barack Obama called on all nations to act now to tackle global warming, as world leaders tried to inject momentum into climate change talks.With...
Sep 22 2009 // China and the United States, the world’s top greenhouse gas emitters, will try to ignite efforts Tuesday to secure a U.N. global warming pact as worries grow of a “dangerously close” deadlock in...
Sep 21 2009 // Unless you live in Florida or Louisiana, or regularly read the Insurance Journal, you may only now be hearing about the latest mass tort craze: Chinese-Manufactured Drywall (often simply referred to as “Chinese...
Sep 14 2009 // Risk Management Solutions is currently tracking the progress of tropical storm Koppu. As of this morning, the storm was located over the South China Sea, approximately 130 miles (210 kms) south southeast of Hong Kong.Koppu...
Sep 1 2009 // Canada’s Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited has purchased of a 15 percent interest in Alltrust Insurance Company of China for approximately US$66 million, subject to final approval by the Chinese Insurance Regulatory...
Aug 24 2009 // Little progress has been made so far on a new pact to combat global warming, with “commercial and political interests” continuing to prevail, China’s senior climate change official said on Monday.The...
Aug 12 2009 // American International Group, seeking to raise cash to repay around $180 billion in bail-out loans, has agreed to sell its Hong Kong consumer finance and India-based IT services units.China Construction Bank (CCB) Asia,...
Jul 29 2009 // The United States and China, the world’s largest emitters of greenhouse gases, signed an agreement Tuesday that promises more cooperation on climate change, energy and the environment without setting firm...
Jul 28 2009 // The New York State Insurance Department has signed a cooperation agreement with regulators in China calling for closer cooperation between the two agencies in overseeing insurance issues.Acting Superintendent Kermitt...
Jul 13 2009 // According to catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide, at 7:19 p.m. local time (11:19 UTC) on Thursday, July 9, a moderate earthquake struck China’s southwest Yunnan province. The USGS issued a moment magnitude...
Jul 9 2009 // Leaders of the world’s richest nations and major developing powers meet on Thursday to seek common ground on global warming and international trade, with the poorer countries seeking concessions.U.S. President Barack...
Jun 15 2009 // General liability carriers specializing in contractor insurance for builders and drywall subcontractors are “sweating it out” over the potentially massive claims dollars that could be paid out in litigation,...