Underwriting
Pie Insurance Raises $118M From Allianz and More
Pie Insurance has pulled in $118 million in new funding, with the workers compensation provider attracting financing from Allianz and others. Executives at the Denver-based InsurTech will use the ...
Global Reinsurance Capital Rebounded in Face of Pandemic Challenges: A.M. Best
Global reinsurance capital rebounded to traditional levels at the end of 2020, despite profound challenges caused by the global coronavirus pandemic. Specifically, capital levels for global ...
Presenting: The World’s First CAT Bond for Volcanic Eruptions
The Danish Red Cross is offering the world's first catastrophe bond for volcanic eruptions, which is designed to improve the provision and efficiency of humanitarian relief after eruptions of 10 ...
UFG Insurance Will Diversify Risk Profile Through U.S. Reinsurance Expansion
UFG Insurance is looking to diversify across the U.S. by expanding into assumed reinsurance business – partly via quota share arrangements, such as the recently announced deal with Topsail Re, a ...
Counterpart Pulls in $10M to Expand Management Liability Insurance Platform
Counterpart raised $10 million in financing designed to help fuel growth of its management liability insurance platform. Valor Equity Partners led the Los Angeles-based MGA InsurTech's financing. ...
India Further Opens Its Insurance Sector to Foreigners
India on Monday further opened up its insurance sector to foreigners, as the nation seeks to spur investments to give a fillip to an economy battered by the pandemic. Lawmakers approved a legislation ...
SCOTUS Spurns Facebook’s Appeal in User Tracking Lawsuit
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away Facebook Inc's bid to pare back a $15 billion class action lawsuit accusing the company of illegally tracking the activities of internet users even when ...
COVID-19 Forces Cancellation of Monte Carlo Reinsurance Rendez-Vous for Second Year
Organizers of the reinsurance Rendez-Vous de Septembre (RVS) have decided to cancel this year's conference as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, just as they did in 2020. "The pandemic is ...