Analysts at two rating agencies, Fitch and Moody’s, believe property/casualty insurers’ prior-year loss reserve takedowns will continue to outpace reserve additions in 2013. The analysts spoke about P/C industry reserving trends as they reviewed their year-end outlooks and 2013 forecasts …
Drinking and driving is a much-publicized, dangerous combination, but is walking after drinking any safer? “No, alcohol impairs your physical ability, period,” says trauma surgeon Dr. Thomas Esposito at Loyola University Health System in Maywood, Ill. “Every movement ranging from …
Two Kansas State University civil engineers are working to make Kansas roads and highways safer by reducing the number and severity of vehicular crashes that involve large, cargo-carrying trucks. Sunanda Dissanayake, associate professor of civil engineering, and Siddhartha Kotikalapudi, master’s …
Better-designed, safer vehicles have contributed to an overall decline in crashes, deaths and injuries on U.S. roadways. In fact, design improvements between model year 2000 and model year 2008 cars helped save 2,000 lives and prevented one million occupant injuries …