Boardroom Agenda
Executives On The Move at AIG, Allied World and Lockton
AIG is bringing on a former Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance executive in a leadership role. Allied World Assurance Company Holdings named a new executive in Australia. Lockton hired an ...
Heritage Insurance Gains Larger Regional Presence With $250M Narragansett Bay Acquisition
Heritage Insurance Company has completed its $250 million acquisition of Narragansett Bay Insurance Company, a deal that it said will create a personal lines carrier with a presence in 11 states. ...
Every insurer evaluating property risk today is running the same math: more perils, more models, more data sources, and not...
Late 2017 Hurricanes Could Spur 2018 Insurance M&A Spree: Clyde & Co. Prediction
Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria and Nate broke records in late 2017 in terms of damages and insured losses. The strains they have caused on the marketplace could spur a wave of M&A activity a ...
Former CNA Chair Chookaszian Reveals the Industry’s Unused Asset: Customers
When you serve as a director for five public companies and two dozen insurance technology service providers, you travel quite a bit. Sharing economy innovations have opened a world of new experiences ...
Executives On The Move at Ironshore, W.R. Berkley and Starr Cos.
Ironshore chose a new head of Global Claims. W.R. Berkley Corp. made some new appointments in two of its business units. Starr Cos. named two executives to help run its new Accident & Health ...
Suit Against AT&T/Time Warner Merger Could Curtail Other M&A Activity
President Donald Trump's first year in office was already shaping up to be a less-than-banner one for M&A. Now, the U.S. Justice Department's lawsuit to block AT&T Inc.'s $85.4 billion ...
Guy Carpenter Chairman Newhouse Will Retire at Year-End
Guy Carpenter Chairman Britt Newhouse is retiring at the end of 2017, a company spokesperson has confirmed. Newhouse has been chairman of the reinsurance broker/strategic advisory firm since 2008. ...
Ascot Re Begins in Bermuda; Berger Appointed as CEO
Ascot Group Ltd. has launched Ascot Reinsurance Co. Ltd. after receiving approval from the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA). Ascot Re has received an additional injection of $1 billion of funds and ...