Risk
Munich Re Seeking Rate Hikes Due to Flood, Hailstorms in Germany
Munich Re, the world's biggest reinsurer, said rates in Germany need to rise following this year's floods and hailstorms. "It just took another 10 years to see another centennial flood in Germany," ...
N.Y. Fed Reserve Chief: Living Wills Not Enough to Fix Too Big to Fail
Reserve Bank of New York President William C. Dudley said that government plans to wind down large financial firms, while helping reduce the odds of a taxpayer bailout, don't eliminate the need for ...
Prudential Gives Up Fight Over Systemic Risk Designation, Increased Regulation
Prudential Financial Inc., the second-largest U.S. life insurer, abandoned its challenge to a U.S. designation from a Treasury Department panel that subjects the company to increased regulatory ...
Florida Enters Era of Workers’ Compensation Market Stability
Florida's workers' compensation system has reached a rare state of rate stability, according to insurers and officials. The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), filed for a one percent ...
Still Unprofitable Insurer NMI Holdings Seeks to File IPO
NMI Holdings Inc., the mortgage guarantor backed by Kyle Bass, Carlyle Group LP and BlueMountain Capital Management LLC, is seeking to be the first U.S. insurer since 2009 to file an initial public ...
Economists Say Washington Fiscal Politics Hurts Economic, Jobs Growth: Reuters Survey
U.S. economic growth this quarter is likely to be less robust than forecast last month given the erosion of confidence in the wake of the nasty fight over fiscal policy, a Reuters survey showed on ...
TVA Insurers Have Paid $92 Million of Ash Spill Cleanup Thus Far
About $42 million has been recovered in the last week by the Tennessee Valley Authority to help pay for more than $1 billion in expenses stemming from the cleanup at the 2008 ash spill at the ...
AXA Sells $474 Million of Catastrophe Bonds
AXA SA said it sold catastrophe bonds designed to protect insurers from payouts on storm damage, in the biggest transaction of the notes in euros. Europe's second-largest insurer by market value ...