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Google Suit Alleges Tracking in Apps Even When Users Opt Out
Alphabet Inc's Google records what people are doing on hundreds of thousands of mobile apps even when they follow the company's recommended settings for stopping such monitoring, a lawsuit seeking ...
UK PM Johnson Proposes Spending $6.6 Billion on Flood Defenses Through 2027
Prime Minister Boris Johnson proposed 5.2 billion pounds ($6.6 billion) of spending on flood defenses through 2027 as his government seeks to protect hundreds of thousands of British homes. Under the ...
Travelers Cautions Q2 Pretax Cat Losses Will Hit $854M
The Travelers Companies Inc. has become the latest P/C carrier to report sizable catastrophe losses for the 2020 second quarter. Estimated pretax catastrophe losses for Q2 reached $854 million, or ...
Buckle Plans to Run Its Carrier as a ‘Digital Front’
Recently, Buckle made an acquisition that helps it expand in interesting ways. Buckle, a digital seller of rideshare insurance, bought Gateway Insurance Company from carrier Atlas Financial Holding ...
Insurer Capital Strength Could Suffer With COVID-19 Second Wave: S&P
Insurers largely withstood the first wave of COVID-19 thanks to their capital strength. They may not be so lucky when a second wave comes, S&P Global Ratings said in a new report. "A second wave ...
LinkedIn Accused of Secretly Reading Apple Users’ Clipboard Content in New Suit
Microsoft Corp's LinkedIn was sued by a New York-based iPhone user on Friday for allegedly reading and diverting users' sensitive content from Apple Inc's Universal Clipboard application. According ...
Lloyd’s to Leave U.S. Admitted Market, Double Down on Reinsurance, E&S
Lloyd's announced it plans to stop accepting admitted market accounts in the U.S. in a year and focus on the U.S. reinsurance and excess and surplus (E&S) insurance market, where it is the market ...
W.R. Berkley Corp. Booked $85M in Q2 Pretax COVID-19-Related Catastrophe Losses
W.R. Berkley Corp. cautioned that its 2020 second quarter pretax catastrophe losses will reach $145 million, with more than half of that coming from COVID-19 related costs. Out of that total, $85 ...