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Brexit Still Places Millions of Insurance/Derivative Contracts at Risk: EU
There is no guarantee that Brexit won't disrupt millions of insurance and derivative contracts and it is still up to firms to take preventive measures, the European Union's financial services chief ...
Lemonade Debuting an Open Source Insurance Policy All Can Help Shape
Lemonade Inc. has come out with an open source insurance policy that rivals can use and all have the capacity to shape, something it touts as a first within the industry. Dubbed Policy 2.0, the ...
U.S. Commercial Lines Could Produce Small Underwriting Profit in 2018: Fitch Ratings
After a tumultuous 2017, the U.S. commercial lines market should eke out a small underwriting profit in 2018 assuming catastrophe losses return to more historical norms, Fitch Ratings said in a new ...
Six More States Sue Purdue Pharma, Alleging It Fuels Opioid Epidemic
Litigation against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP is intensifying as six more U.S. states on Tuesday announced lawsuits, accusing the company of fueling a national opioid epidemic by deceptively ...
Judge Won’t Let Uber Deny Responsibility for Driver Assaults
A judge refused to let Uber Technologies Inc. off the hook over a high school student's claims that her driver made lewd comments to her -- marking another rejection of the company's argument that it ...
MGA Boost Insurance Secures Reinsurance Facility to Back Its InsurTech Development Platform
Boost Insurance has nailed down a dedicated reinsurance facility to help support its B2B InsurTech development platform. Nephila is leading the facility with participation from Markel Digital, the ...
Executives On The Move at Ironshore and RMS
Ironshore promoted from within for the new head of its healthcare professional liability unit. Catastrophe modeler RMS appointed a veteran from the software industry to run its own software/platform ...
XL Group Execs Depart, Jobs Shift in Anticipation of AXA Acquisition
AXA SA's planned $15.3 billion cash acquisition of XL Group has spurred management change and departures at the soon-to-be-acquired company as integration plans progress. Announced in March, the ...