Underwriting
Total Catastrophe Losses in 2013 at $130B, Insured Losses at $44B: Swiss Re
Swiss Re AG, the second-largest reinsurer worldwide, said natural and man-made catastrophes in 2013 caused $130 billion in economic losses tied to floods, hailstorms and other events. Insured losses ...
Sompo Japan Expanding Overseas with Acquisition of Canopius for $963M
Sompo Japan Insurance Inc., a unit of Japan's third-largest casualty insurer group by market value, will buy Canopius Group Ltd. of the U.K. for 99.2 billion yen ($963 million) as it expands beyond ...
Zurich Insurance Policy Lowers Banks’ Operational Risk Capital Needs
Zurich Insurance Group AG, Switzerland's biggest insurer, plans to offer banks a way to lower the amount of capital they need to hold for operational risks such as employee misconduct as regulators ...
Hartford May Sell Remaining Corporate-Owned Life Insurance Business
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., the insurer which rebuffed an activist's calls to split into two companies last year, is considering a sale of a business that offered companies life insurance ...
S&P Cuts RSA Insurance Credit Rating Citing ‘Weakening’ Management
RSA Insurance Group Plc may be set for more downgrades, threatening its ability to retain commercial clients, after Standard & Poor's cut its credit rating to the lowest in more than a decade. ...
GEICO Passes Allstate to Become 2d Largest U.S. Auto Insurer: SNL
Based on third quarter reports, GEICO Corp. has surpassed Allstate Corp. to become the nation's second-largest private auto insurer. According to data compiled by SNL, GEICO logged $4.89 billion in ...
UBS Not Liable for Touting Risk Controls Breached by Rogue Trader
U.S. securities laws have their limits and do not justify making UBS AG liable to shareholders for touting its ability to control risk even as it harbored a rogue trader who caused $2.3 billion of ...
Florida’s Citizens Says Clearinghouse Delay Allows More Insurers to Join
Florida's state-backed property insurer announced that the debut of a new web-based clearinghouse would be delayed for a few weeks in order to ensure it is working efficiently and to allow more ...