Underwriting
Cyber Security a Challenge for Insurers: A.M. Best
Thirteen percent of respondents to A.M. Best's Fall 2014 Insurance Industry Survey admitted that their companies had been the targets of data breaches or cyber attacks. Larger companies appear much ...
DHL: Shipping Companies Will be First In Line For Driverless Vehicles
While Google Inc. plans to someday unleash driverless cars on public streets, the logistics industry will probably be one of the first training grounds for such automated vehicles. Shipping companies ...
House Leaders Unveil Their Version of a TRIA Extension, With Attachments
House leaders released a proposed six-year extension of a federal program to insure property against the risk of terrorism, including a Republican proposal to revise a bank regulatory law. The ...
Judicial Panel Orders Hurricane Sandy Flood Insurers to Fork Over Reports
A Travelers Cos. unit and other flood insurers accused by Hurricane Sandy victims in New York of using falsified engineering reports must turn over the drafts to policyholders, a three-judge panel ...
Towers Watson: Commercial Insurance Prices Rose Slightly in Q3
Commercial insurance prices grew on average about 3 percent in the 2014 third quarter compared to the previous year. It matched last quarter's uptick and halted more than a year of consecutively ...
Verisk Grabs ‘Complementary’ British Rival for $31.6M
Verisk Analytics snatched up a British analytics and advisory outfit for more than $31.6 million, beefing up its research and data capacity for geopolitical and other risks in the process. The New ...
Swiss Re, Prudential, Eye African Reinsurance and Pension Opportunities
A growing middle class in sub-Saharan Africa is enticing European and South African insurers to buy local firms focusing mainly on life insurance and pensions, in the face of mature markets and ...
Another Philippines Typhoon Causes Death and Destruction
Typhoon Hagupit slammed the central Philippines with heavy rain and gales, toppling trees and power lines and threatening the recovery of regions devastated by Super TyphoonHaiyan a year ago. Schools ...