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Corporate Social Responsibility Can Get a CEO Fired: Research
CEOs are increasingly encouraged and even pressured to invest in reducing a company's carbon foot print, make the firm more diverse and focus on product safety. But researchers from the University of ...
Hurricane Nate’s Insured Losses Will Reach Close to $500M: Karen Clark & Co.
Hurricane Nate will likely cause close to $500 million in insured losses, according to a flash estimate from catastrophe modeling form Karen Clark & Co. While the number is not insignificant, it ...
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys Stake in Italian Insurer Cattolica
Warren Buffett is expanding his wager on Italy. The billionaire's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said Thursday it agreed to buy about 9 percent of Italian insurer Societa Cattolica di Assicurazioni Scrl ...
Eyewitness to Hurricane Destruction: TOPA Insurance CEO Shares Caribbean Experiences
When Topa Insurance Group President and CEO John Donahue arrived in the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) just a few days after Hurricane Irma hit, one of the first things he noticed aside from the utter ...
Report: Zurich CEO Greco Claims 2019 Cost-Cutting Goal at Halfway Point
Zurich Insurance will have cut costs by $700 million by the end of the year, nearly halfway to its goal to save $1.5 billion by 2019, Chief Executive Mario Greco said in an interview published on ...
Guidewire Paying $275M for P/C Data Science Software Firm Cyence
Guidewire Software Inc. will fork over $275 million to acquire Cyence, a software startup that uses data science and risk analytics to help P/C insurers address emerging risks including cyber, ...
Boshoven Retiring as Farmers Specialty Lines/Foremost Leader; Cok Set to Replace Him
Steve Boshoven is retiring from Farmers Group after an insurance industry career spanning more than 30 years. Boshoven is currently president of Farmers Specialty and head of the Foremost Brand, an ...
Pie Insurance Debuts, With Small Business WC as a Target
Pie Insurance, an InsurTech startup focused on the small business workers compensation market, recently closed a $4.3 million seed financing round and the company is debuting this week with an online ...