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Will Biggert-Waters Save the Flood Insurance Program? No, It’s Not Even Close
The Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act (Biggert-Waters) was enacted in 2012 with the goal of reforming and thereby saving the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). It is a well-meaning and ...
Entertainment Insurers Re-Tune Policies After Michael Jackson Case
When Britney Spears takes the stage this December for the first of a heavily hyped 100-show two-year residency at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, the loudest cheers may come from her insurance ...
South Africa: Key to a Continent
South Africa is a study of contrasts. Its financial sector is among the world's most developed and sophisticated, yet the country of roughly 50 million inhabitants is plagued with large scale ...
On the Regulation and the Facts
There was much coverage last month on the fifth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, but it was also the fifth anniversary of the U.S. government's intervention in AIG. While the issues at ...
Endurance Building ‘Relevance’ Through Leadership Changes, CFO Says
Armed with the overstuffed Rolodex of its new CEO, John Charman, Endurance Specialty Holdings is moving into new markets like a startup, the company's chief financial officer suggested at an investor ...
Berkshire Seen as Just One More Competitor to E&S Execs
Despite Berkshire-Hathaway's entrance into specialty insurance business, standard markets are still the players most capable of changing the dynamics of the surplus lines market, executives said ...
Product Recall Capacity Needed for Life Sciences Segment
The life sciences industry has seen a dramatic increase in product recalls, and while insurance capacity for the industry in general has been increasing, insurers have been wary about offering more ...
Are Multiyear Policies the Answer For Flood? Behavioral Economics Meets Insurance
Buyers and sellers of flood insurance can benefit from a longer-term perspective, and long-term multiyear policies may be the key to reforming the current system, a Wharton School professor said last ...