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Cyber Attack Risks Rise With Coronavirus Pandemic
As U.S. employers ask employees to work from home to avoid exposure to coronavirus, they may be exposing themselves to another kind of risk: cyber attacks. Aon on Friday issued an advisory cautioning ...
Coronavirus Crisis Hits Insurers With Double Whammy
Having initially brushed off the potential impact from coronavirus-linked claims, global insurers are waking up to the prospect of a double whammy — a sharp rise in payouts at a time of big ...
Lloyd’s Trading Will Continue During Shutdown of London Building for Coronavirus Stress Test
Lloyd's is shutting its London underwriting room at 1 Lime Street for one day for a contingency planning exercise in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Starting at 12:01 a.m. on March 13 and for ...
Insurers Could Be Unknowingly Subsidizing Marijuana Grow Houses
While California has a $1.4 billion legal marijuana market, a black market of perhaps equal size is thriving. Some enterprising growers are working on ways to get home insurers to cover their capital ...
U.S. Commercial Insurance Prices in Q4 Continued Their Accelerated Rise: Willis Towers Watson
U.S. commercial insurance prices continued rising at an accelerated pace in the 2019 fourth quarter, with the aggregate price change exceeding 6 percent, according to a new Willis Towers Watson ...
State Farm to Leave Banking Business Through New Strategic Alliance
State Farm is getting out of the banking business. The property/casualty insurer said it has formed a strategic alliance with U.S. Bank, allowing it to assume State Farm Bank's existing deposit and ...
U.S. P/C Net Underwriting Income Grew by Nearly $5B in 2019: A.M. Best
Net underwriting income for the U.S. property/casualty insurance industry in 2019 grew by $4.9 million from 2018, A.M. Best said in a new report. Underwriting income hit $4.1 billion in 2019, from a ...
Investor Sues Bayer, Alleging ‘Disastrous’ Monsanto Acquisition
A Bayer AG investor sued the board and other top company officials, claiming the "disastrous" 2018 acquisition of Monsanto Co. eroded the company's share value by saddling it with potentially ...