Risk
Endurance Ups Its Bid For An Unimpressed Aspen
Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. promised it wouldn't give up on a merger with Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd., and so it is trying again with a higher bid. The Bermuda specialty insurance and ...
Industry Prediction: Expect P/C Market Stability Through 2014
The federal terrorism risk insurance backstop, in place in one form or another since 2002, will likely be reauthorized by Congress, and in the absence of a major catastrophe — man-made or otherwise ...
Hacking Threats Make Cyber Experts Darlings of the Corporate World
Some of the largest U.S. companies are looking to hire cybersecurity experts in newly elevated positions and bring technologists on to their boards, a sign that corporate America is increasingly ...
Greenpeace: “Fossil Fuel” Execs Risk Lawsuits For Denying Climate Change
Environmental groups said executives of coal, oil, gas and other "fossil fuel" companies could be held liable and risk lawsuits if they support groups that deny climate change and resist policies to ...
Singapore Agriculture Cat Modeling Firm Eyes China Expansion
Asia Risk Centre (ARC) scored two major insurance licensing deals that should help expand its agriculture catastrophe modeling presence in China. The Singapore catastrophe modeling and analytics ...
AIG’s Rehab Continues With Improved S&P Outlook
The rehabilitation of American International Group Inc. continues with news that Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has improved its outlook for the insurance conglomerate. Two years after AIG ...
Google Driverless Cars, Minus Steering Wheels, Redefine Auto Risks
Google Inc is building cars that don't have steering wheels, accelerator pedals or brake pedals, in an ambitious expansion of the Internet company's efforts to develop self-driving cars. The small ...
Opinion: Risk Versus Reward In The ‘Internet of Things’
I hope it's not true that Apple's next big bet will be on the "Internet of things." The concept is a useless and dangerous one, and now Apple's powerful marketing machine may join Google's in selling ...