(Reuters) — U.S. securities regulators have accused a KPMG partner and two other individuals of insider trading on tips about three pending corporate mergers on which the accounting firm was providing advice.

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Swiss Re Capital Markets Corp. said it has structured and placed the issuance of $100 million of insurance-linked securities by Laetere Re Ltd. on behalf of St. Petersburg, Florida-based United Property & Casualty Insurance Co.

Legislation signed by North Carolina Gov.

The commission says that it has had a 94% success rate in pursuing systemic bias lawsuits during the last decade.

San Francisco-based Embroker Inc. has opened a Chicago office, Embroker said in a Friday statement.

Hammered by a fall in interest rates, which boosted the value of plan liabilities, the funded status of very large pension plans sponsored by public companies slumped in June, according to a Milliman Inc. survey released Friday.

(Reuters) — St. Jude Medical Inc. has reached a $39.25 million class action settlement with shareholders to resolve claims it downplayed the possible dangers associated with a product used to connect implantable defibrillators to patients’ hearts.

NHTSA said it would investigate some motorcycles made by Harley-Davidson after complaints of brake failure without warning.