Underwriting
AIG Launches $1B Rail Catastrophe Policy
American International Group Inc., the largest commercial insurer in the U.S. and Canada, introduced a policy to help railroads handle losses from catastrophic accidents as more crude oil is shipped ...
Bond Insurer MBIA Hit By Data Breach; Wide Net of Damage Likely
Bond insurer MBIA was told two weeks ago about a server breach that compromised the data of thousands of local U.S. government entities, but it did not address the problem until earlier this week, ...
Capital Gains Mute P/C Industry H1 Operating Income Decline
The combined ratio for the property/casualty insurance industry became slightly worse in the first half of 2014, as net investment income declined and weak operating income continued. But net income ...Geithner: AIG’s Collapse Could Have Triggered Global Mass Panic
The failure in 2008 of American International Group Inc., the world's biggest insurer, would have caused "mass panic on a global scale," Timothy Geithner, the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New ...
How Insurers Gain ‘Systemically Important’ Status May Be Tweaked
The U.S. top financial risk council may tweak the way in which it identifies insurers and other companies that are not banks as systemically important, a process the industry and politicians have ...
Hanover Insurance Gets Ratings Affirmation in Advance of Q3 Earnings
The Hanover Insurance Group doesn't release its 2014 third quarter financial results until Oct. 29. But Fitch Ratings has given the Massachusetts-based U.S. property/casualty insurer an early bit of ...
Guy Carpenter to Broker Business Cyber Privacy Coverage
Guy Carpenter & Company LLC said it brokered a new cyber privacy and network protection coverage targeted to small-and medium-sized companies, a move that comes as cyber security violations are ...
AIR Releases Inland Flood Model for U.S.
Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) has released a physically based, probabilistic inland flood model for locations on and off the many and varied floodplains across the United States. ...