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A $4.9B Allied World Buy Means Watsa’s Fairfax Is Betting on Trump
Prem Watsa, the Canadian investor who just agreed to buy a Swiss company in his largest deal, called the $4.9 billion agreement a bet on U.S. growth under President-elect Donald Trump. The purchase ...
Greenlight Capital Re CEO Hedges to Depart; Goldberg Will Return in Interim Capacity
Greenlight Capital Re disclosed that CEO Barton Hedges will be stepping down at the end of March 2017. News of his impending departure comes weeks after A.M. Best slapped the struggling specialist ...
Watsa’s Fairfax Will Snatch Up Allied World in $4.9B Deal
Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. agreed to buy insurer Allied World Assurance Co. for $4.9 billion in cash and stock in Chief Executive Officer Prem Watsa's largest purchase. Fairfax will pay $54 per ...
American Family’s Mutual Holding Company Conversion on Track for Early 2017
Policyholders of American Family Mutual Insurance Co. (AFMIC) have voted to approve the company's plan to convert its corporate structure to a mutual holding company. Madison, Wis.-based American ...
Michigan’s Auto-Owners Insurance Proposes Affiliation With New Hampshire’s Concord General Mutual
Auto-Owners Insurance, a Lansing, Michigan, based insurance provider, has announced its proposed affiliation with the Concord, N.H., based Concord General Mutual Insurance group of companies. The ...
Too Much Tech, More Lawyers Fuel Auto Insurance Woes: Hartford Execs
Although small commercial insurance—outside of auto—is a top-line accelerator at The Hartford, auto insurance severity continues hitting the bottom line, say executives who expect a pretax $50 ...
Berkley Sees Both Brexit and Trump as Having Minimal Impact
There could be more political surprises coming after the U.S. election of Donald Trump and Britain's vote to exit from the European Union but one leading insurance executive isn't too worried. "I ...
Great American Insurance Chooses Gruber as New President and COO
Great American Insurance Group promoted a longtime executive to become its new president and chief operating officer. Gary Gruber will assume his new role with the Ohio-based company as of Jan. 1, ...