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AXIS Sweetens Bid for Lloyd’s Specialty Carrier Novae, Now Offering $611.5M
AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. has substantially sweetened its offer for Novae Group plc, a Lloyd's of London specialty insurer and reinsurer. AXIS, a Bermuda-based specialty insurer and reinsurer, said ...
Introducing the QBE, Arrowhead Partnership for Small Commercial
When it was announced in June that San Diego, Calif.-based Arrowhead General Insurance Agency Inc. was selected as the program administrator for QBE North America's small commercial insurance ...
Fairfax Financial Will Sell Singapore Insurer to Mitsui Sumitomo for $1.6B
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company (MSI) is acquiring Singapore's First Capital Insurance for $1.6 billion from Canada's Fairfax Financial Holdings, in the biggest takeover by a Japanese insurer in ...
J&J Talc/Cancer Trial Verdict Opens New Front in Litigation
A massive California verdict in a lawsuit alleging Johnson & Johnson's talc-based products cause cancer has opened a new front in the litigation, upending the company's hopes that the cases were ...
Some P/C Industry CEOs Speak Out to Employees Against Charlottesville Racist Violence
In the days after a white supremacist/Alt-Right march and violent protests in Charlottesville, Va., some property/casualty insurance carrier executives chose to speak loudly to employees against what ...
Verisk Analytics Commits $322.7M to Buy UK Software Firm Sequel
Verisk Analytics plans to acquire Sequel for $322.7 million, a deal that will give it a UK-based software firm focused on complex commercial and specialty insurance. Sequel is currently owned by ...
Allstate’s July Pre-Tax Catastrophe Losses: $181 Million
The Allstate Corp. said pre-tax catastrophe losses in July reached $181 million, with more than half of the cost coming from severe wind, hail and rain events in the U.S. Midwest. Broken down, 13 ...
U.S. Mortgage Reinsurance Remains a P/C Bright Spot: Standard & Poor’s
While business conditions in traditional property/casualty reinsurance areas continue to deteriorate, U.S. mortgage reinsurance apparently remains a bright spot, due to government mandates and other ...