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Alberto, a Relative Letdown, Caused $50M in U.S. Insured Losses: Karen Clark & Co.
Subtropical Storm Alberto — the first named storm of the 2018 Hurricane Season — will likely cause close to $50 million in insured losses in the United States, according to catastrophe modeling ...
AIG Grows Presence in Pension Risk Transfer Market
American International Group is expanding its presence in the pension risk transfer market, spurred in part by the Trump tax cuts. "We are seeing significant opportunity in this market, driven by tax ...
Swiss Re Loses SoftBank as Potential Investor, but Would Welcome Another
Swiss Re AG said it would continue to welcome an anchor investor after Masayoshi Son's SoftBank Group Corp. ended its pursuit of a stake in the world's second-largest reinsurer. The collapsed talks ...
U.S. Forecasters Predict 2018 Atlantic Hurricane Season Could Be Above Normal
U.S. forecasters expect the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season will be near-normal to above-normal in number and intensity of storms, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Climate ...
Cyber Attackers Claim They Struck Two Large Canadian Banks
Bank of Montreal and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce said on Monday that cyber attackers may have stolen the data of nearly 90,000 customers in what appeared to be the first significant assault on ...
More Companies Added to Suit Alleging Facebook Ad Tools Discriminate Against Older Job Seekers
A proposed class action lawsuit alleging Facebook's ad placement tools facilitate discrimination against older job-seekers has been expanded to identify additional companies, further widening the ...
3 Tips for Commercial Insurers Pursuing Technological Change
Commercial insurers, like other carriers, are gearing up for some major technology-driven transformations. Here, we list three ways that insurers can ready their organizations for the changes to ...
InsurTech Investment Deals Hit New High in Q1: Willis Towers Watson
InsurTech investment deals reached a new high in the 2018 first quarter, with older insurers and reinsurers increasingly committing financing right along with traditional venture capitalists, Willis ...