Underwriting
Ping An Insurance, Confronting China Slowdown, Boosts Overseas Assets
Ping An Insurance (Group) Co., China's second-largest insurer, is boosting overseas assets as the nation's slowing economy and falling interest rates make it difficult to find investments with ...
Finding ‘Diamonds’ in Greenhouse Gas; Scientists Making Nanofibers from CO2
Finding a technology to shift carbon dioxide (CO2), the most abundant anthropogenic greenhouse gas, from a climate change problem to a valuable commodity has long been a dream of many scientists and ...
Hurricane Katrina Led to Big Improvements in Coastal Building Codes
When Hurricane Katrina made landfall 10 years ago, it caused a whopping $41 billion in insured losses and more than $151 billion in overall economic losses. The storm left massive damages in coastal ...
Lloyd’s: Drone Industry Threatened by Cyber Attacks, Reckless Pilots and Privacy Breaches
Cyber attacks, reckless pilots and privacy breaches are fundamental threats to the drone industry's success, viability and risk management, according to a new Lloyd's report. Dubbed "Drones Take ...
Towers Watson: Top Talent + Analytics Will Help Advance Claims Operations
Large numbers of U.S. property/casualty insurers say they're struggling to attract and keep talented claims operations employees. They're also still figuring out how to best leverage analytics to do ...
China’s Ping An Insurance Sees Profit Soar, Thanks to Investment Gains
Ping An Insurance (Group) Co., China's second-largest insurer, said profit jumped 62 percent in the first half of this year as a stock-market rally boosted investment returns. Net income rose to 34.6 ...
Rising Sea Level Boosts Risk to U.S. Coastal Cities of Hurricane-Related Flood Damage
Rising sea levels in the coming years will create heightened risk of severe economic damage from hurricane-related flood in U.S. coastal cities, RMS asserted in a new report. The catastrophe modeling ...
Fitch Upgrades Rating for American Family Insurance
Wisconsin's American Family Insurance is the beneficiary of an upgrade from Fitch Ratings, thanks to such factors as strong capitalization and favorable reserves. Fitch said it upgrade the mutual ...