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Iglesias Succeeds Knight as President of Allied World North America
Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG has appointed Lou Iglesias as president for Allied World North America. Iglesias is currently president, U.S. Property & Casualty. He succeeds Gordon ...
Do You Have the Vision to Innovate?
Google the term "insurance innovation" and you'll get over 38,000 results. Probably not surprising, and as you would expect, the results are everything from an actual domain name to consulting groups ...
Income Inequality Now Top Global Risk, Says World Economic Forum
The chronic gap between the incomes of the richest and poorest citizens is seen as the risk that is most likely to cause serious damage globally in the coming decade, according to over 700 global ...
Yahoo COO de Castro Axed After 14 Months on Job
Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer dismissed Chief Operating Officer Henrique de Castro after 14 months, amid disappointment with his efforts to boost growth, according to people with ...
Brown & Brown to Acquire Flood, Specialty Insurer Wright Insurance Group
Florida-based national insurance broker Brown & Brown, Inc. has agreed to acquire The Wright Insurance Group, LLC for $602.5 million from Aquiline Capital Partners, Wright's lead equity partner. ...
U.N. Report Outlines Climate Change Solutions
Governments may have to extract vast amounts of greenhouse gases from the air by 2100 to achieve a target for limiting global warming, backed by trillion-dollar shifts towards clean energy, a draft ...
Desjardins Group to Acquire State Farm Canada Businesses
Desjardins Group, the leading cooperative financial group in Canada, announced Wednesday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase State Farm Canada's property/casualty and life ...
U.S. P/C Insurers Face Challenge in 2014 Trying to Match 2013 Performance
The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry reported strong performance in 2013, but in 2014, the industry may find it difficult to match last year's results as insurers begin to face more ...