Underwriting
Ridesharing Companies, ‘Uber’ Coverage Gap Worry Insurance Group
The tragedy of a young girl who was killed on New Year's Eve by a motorist on contract with a cellphone app-based ridesharing service has at least one insurance group speaking up even louder to drive ...
West Virginia Spill Triggers Calls for Stronger Chemical Regulation
A chemical spill that left 300,000 people in West Virginia unable to drink their water is reviving calls for more stringent regulation of thousands of chemical storage sites in the U.S., especially ...
SNL Acquires Analytics Firm iPartners
SNL Insurance, a division of SNL, has acquired iPartners LLC, which offers analytics and reporting software and services that help insurers collect and analyze internal business data. Terms were not ...
Scientists Say Americans Becoming Weather Wimps; Statistics Prove It
We've become weather wimps. As the world warms, the United States is getting fewer bitter cold spells like the one that gripped much of the nation last week. So when a deep freeze strikes, scientists ...
Why American Financial is Buying Summit; Execs Reveal Deal Benefits
The ability to use cash for investments is one of the reasons executives of American Financial Group gave for paying $250 million for some former Liberty Mutual workers compensation units last week. ...
3 More Well-Known But Unidentified Retailers Were Breach Victims: Reuters
Target Corp. and Neiman Marcus are not the only U.S. retailers whose networks were breached over the holiday shopping season last year, according to sources familiar with attacks on other merchants ...
Economic Cost of January Freeze Put at $5B, Insurance Costs Not Available Yet
Hunkering down at home rather than going to work, canceling thousands of flights and repairing burst pipes from the Midwest to the Southeast has its price. By one estimate, about $5 billion. The ...
W. Va. Chemical Spill Brings State Capital to Standstill
A chemical spill left the water for 300,000 people in and around West Virginia's capital city stained blue-green and smelling like licorice, with officials saying Friday it was unclear when it might ...