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The Hartford’s 2019 Navigators Acquisition Pays Off
The Hartford closed out 2019 with gains in net income and net investment income, buttressed in part by its $2.1 billion acquisition of specialty insurer Navigators Group. Net income hit $543 million, ...
Safety National Revamps Leadership Team With Growth, Innovation on Its Mind
Safety National is making four changes in its executive leadership it frames as a reorganization designed to keep the company growing and innovating. The specialty insurance and reinsurance provider ...
Berkley CEO Warns ‘Clouds Are Beginning to Build’ for Workers Comp
While the market is hardening and rates are increasing for nearly every commercial insurance line, workers compensation remains stubbornly soft. That reality is something that W.R. Berkley's CEO ...
Executives On The Move at W.R. Berkley Corp. and Great American
W.R. Berkley Corp. made two new executive appointments, both promotions from within. Great American Insurance promoted a veteran executive from one of its units to senior vice president within its ...
AXIS Loses Money in Q4; CEO Benchimol Insists Insurer Is Improving
AXIS Capital Holding's 2019 fourth quarter was a money-loser, culminating a year hampered by Japan's typhoons and poor U.S. crop conditions, among other obstacles. Still, the company's results are ...
W.R. Berkley Sees Higher Premiums; Investment Results Ding Net Income
W.R. Berkley Corp. said its gross premiums written grew by more than 10 percent in the 2019 fourth quarter, thanks in part to accelerated rate increases. But net income dipped compared to the same ...
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inks Deal to Sell Newspaper Unit
Warren Buffett is getting out of the newspaper business. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. agreed to sell its BH Media unit and its 30 daily newspapers to Lee Enterprises Inc., which owns papers including the ...
Bayer Pursues Settlement Talks as Roundup Cancer Trial Postponed
Bayer AG said on Friday it has reached an agreement with plaintiffs' lawyers to postpone a Missouri jury trial over allegations its popular weed killer Roundup causes cancer to provide room for ...