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Aon Announces Leadership Appointments at Benfield, ARS
Aon plc today announced the appointment of Eric Andersen as CEO of Aon Benfield, the firm's reinsurance business, and Mike O'Connor as CEO of Aon Risk Solutions (ARS), the firm's risk management ...
ProAssurance to Acquire Workers’ Comp Specialist Eastern Holdings
Medical professional liability insurer ProAssurance Corp. (NYSE: PRA) said it is acquiring monoline workers' compensation insurer Eastern Insurance Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: EIHI) in an all-cash ...
Fidelity Demands Companies Make Exec Pay Plans Longer Term
One of the biggest investors in European companies says it will start voting against boardroom pay plans next year unless firms force executives to hold shares more than three years before cashing ...
Newsmaker: BlackBerry Savior Watsa, an Investor with a Long View
As soon as Prem Watsa stepped down from BlackBerry's board in August, speculation that he would launch a bid for the troubled smartphone maker started to swirl. Six weeks later, the man some call ...
Two Voted Against Designating Prudential As Systemic Risk
Prudential Financial Inc., the second-largest U.S. life insurer, was designated systemically important in a 7-to-2 vote by a council of regulators charged with preventing another crisis. Edward ...
Berkshire Hathaway Keeps Minting Billionaires, Philanthropists
Stewart Horejsi's business was in a funk. It was 1980, and Brown Welding Supply LLC, his family's third-generation distributor of hydrogen and oxygen tanks, was battling competitors that were intent ...
Travelers Launching Low Cost, Segmented Product in New Personal Auto Strategy
The Travelers Companies Inc. is adopting a new strategy to become more price-competitive in personal auto insurance. Travelers' CEO Jay Fishman explained his company's personal auto strategy at the ...
PCI Elects Dirks, Duclos to Board of Governors
The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) elected Douglas D. Dirks, president and chief executive officer of Employers Holdings, Inc., and David Duclos, CEO of QBE's North American ...