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Anthem Wins Temporary Order to Stop Cigna From Terminating Merger
Anthem Inc on Wednesday won a temporary restraining order that blocks smaller rival Cigna Corp from officially terminating their proposed $54 billion merger, a transaction already rejected by U.S. ...
Solvency II Is Boosting Reinsurance Demand, 1/1 Renewals Show
The January renewals period show that Solvency II will increase demand for reinsurance products as European insurers attempt to strengthen their capital position through risk transfers, Fitch Ratings ...
Federal Reserve Chair Yellen Defends Global Regulatory Talks in Age of Trump
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, in response to a warning from a U.S. congressman to halt global regulatory talks in the early stages of Donald Trump's presidency, said in a letter the Fed has the ...
Insurer/Investor Group Urges G20 Economies to Phase out Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Investors and insurers with more than $2.8 trillion in assets under management on Wednesday called on the Group of 20 economies to phase out fossil fuel subsidies by 2020 despite U.S. doubts about ...
Ex-CFO of Bankrupt Enron Offers D&O Lessons from Accounting’s ‘Gray’ Areas
Andrew Fastow, former chief financial officer of Enron Corp., a now-defunct energy trading company swept up in a massive fraud scandal in the early 2000s, warned a room full of directors and officers ...
AIG Loses $3.04B in Q4, Slammed by Higher-Than-Expected Claims Costs
American International Group Inc. posted its fourth loss in six quarters, burned again by higher-than-expected claims costs as Chief Executive Officer Peter Hancock struggles to sustain ...
AXIS Re CEO Nichols Resigns; Ekberg Will Succeed as Interim Head
Bermuda-based AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. announced that John "Jay" Nichols has resigned from his position as chief executive officer of AXIS Re. Nichols has agreed to remain with the company in a ...
Greenberg, New York AG Dispute Admission of Wrongdoing in Fraud Settlement
Almost a dozen years ago, then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a fraud lawsuit against former American Insurance Group Inc. CEO Maurice "Hank" Greenberg over two reinsurance ...