Leadership & Strategy
Allied World Gains Australian Beachhead
Switzerland's Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG is continuing its expansion in the Asia Pacific region with the launch of a new office in Australia. Allied World said in a press release ...
Standard & Poor’s Sees a Stable Global Market, Save For Reinsurance
As of mid-2014, worldwide pricing is softening in the reinsurance sector. At the same time, however, conditions have stabilized and even improved for most global insurers, Standard & Poors ...
Industry Prediction: Expect P/C Market Stability Through 2014
The federal terrorism risk insurance backstop, in place in one form or another since 2002, will likely be reauthorized by Congress, and in the absence of a major catastrophe — man-made or otherwise ...
Hacking Threats Make Cyber Experts Darlings of the Corporate World
Some of the largest U.S. companies are looking to hire cybersecurity experts in newly elevated positions and bring technologists on to their boards, a sign that corporate America is increasingly ...
Sunshine State Insurance Co.’s Fate Unclear After M&A Deal Collapses
The future of Florida's Sunshine State Insurance Co. (SSIC) is unclear now that a deal by another insurer to rescue it has fallen through. United Insurance Holdings Corp. (UPC Insurance Co.) ...
ACE CEO Greenberg to Lead Southeast Asia CEO Mission
ACE Chairman and CEO Evan Greenberg is leading a U.S. delegation of executives to Southeast Asia with a focus on promoting mutual business opportunities. Specifically, he'll be bringing CEOs from the ...
Singapore Agriculture Cat Modeling Firm Eyes China Expansion
Asia Risk Centre (ARC) scored two major insurance licensing deals that should help expand its agriculture catastrophe modeling presence in China. The Singapore catastrophe modeling and analytics ...
AIG’s Hancock Discusses Labor Moves to Philippines, Texas
American International Group Inc., the largest commercial insurer in the U.S. and Canada, is shifting workers to locations including the Philippines and Texas to reduce costs. "We're talking several ...