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Nationwide Pet Shedding 100,000 Policies
The leading pet insurer in the U.S. said it is dropping about 100,000 policies starting this ...
New Talc-Related Class Action Lawsuit Goes After J&J for Fraudulent Conveyance
With recent news that Johnson & Johnson is going forward with a third bankruptcy plan of a subsidiary to settle tens of thousand of lawsuits that it's talc products cause cancer, a class-action ...
CIAB: Commercial P/C Premiums Increase 7.7% in Q1 2024
Overall commercial property/casualty premiums increased slightly for all account sizes to 7.7 percent on average in the first quarter of 2024. According to The Council of Insurance Agents and ...
IRC: Home Insurance Spend Tops Household Income Growth
According to the Insurance Research Council (IRC), the average homeowners insurance expenditure has become less affordable for U.S. consumers over time. Looking at the the years 2001 to 2021—the ...
Hartford Q1 Income Up 41% on Commercial Lines as Auto Results Improve
The Hartford CEO Christopher Swift told analysts late last week that the insurer's first-quarter results included "progress toward restoring targeted profitability in auto" as it turned in an ...
AIG Sues Newly Launched Dellwood Insurance and Its Founders
American International Group and a group of its excess and surplus lines subsidiaries have filed suit against Dellwood Insurance Group and three former AIG executives who launched the nationwide ...
‘AI Washing’ Troubles: SEC Fines Investment Firms, Issues Warnings
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission this week said it settled charges against two investment advisers related to "AI washing," or essentially making false claims about their use of artificial ...
Chubb’s Greenberg Defends Issuing Appeal Bond to Trump: ‘We Don’t Take Sides’
Chubb CEO Evan Greenberg, recognizing the criticism swirling around his company's involvement in recently providing Donald Trump with a $91.6 million appeal bond, penned a letter to explain. "When ...