Leadership & Strategy
Liberty Mutual’s Safeco Will Assume QBE North America’s Personal Insurance Business
QBE North America will transfer its North America personal insurance policies sold through independent agents to Safeco Insurance, leaving the specialist insurer to focus on its core commercial ...
AmFam’s Subsidiary Aims to Help Customers Protect Their Financial Well-Being
At first glance, an insurance company's investment in a staffing company might seem, well, a little off-base. But according to principals at American Family Insurance and its staffing agency ...
Esurance Signs Actor Dennis Quaid as Its First On-Camera Spokesperson
For the first time, Allstate Corp.'s Esurance has an on-camera spokesperson. The "straight-shooting and highly likable actor" Dennis Quaid has the job, according to the insurer, which sells auto, ...
The Latest Launches From Marsh and AmWINS
Marsh debuted a new insurance product designed to help small and midsize law firms in England and Wales manage their professional indemnity risks. The insurance wholesale brokerage AmWINS Group ...
W.R Berkley, Travelers, GEICO Among 12 New Members of The Institutes RiskBlock Alliance
Twelve more companies have joined The Institutes RiskBlock Alliance, which is billed as the risk management and insurance industry's first enterprise-level blockchain consortium. The membership level ...
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys More Apple, Boosts Stakes in Teva, Goldman Sachs
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc boosted its investments in Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Israel's Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd during the second quarter and confirmed it has expanded its ...
A Quantum Computing Startup With an Eye on Insurance Raises $2M
A Canadian company developing quantum intelligence for insurance and other industry sectors has raised a $2 million seed round of financing. Qindom, based in Toronto, raised the funding from an ...
Trump’s Fight to Rollback Tailpipe Emissions Limits Leaves California Pondering Plan B
Even as California professes optimism in its legal fight against President Donald Trump's rollback of tailpipe emissions limits, the state is eyeing a fallback plan that could test how much its ...