Strategy
Navigators Expands European Operations
The Navigators Group Inc., an international specialty insurance holding company, is pursuing a European expansion. Its European underwriting management subsidiary, Navigators Underwriting Ltd., has ...
Canopius Unveils U.S. Property Re Expansion Push
Canopius Group Ltd., a global specialty reinsurance company based in the U.K., will expand its U.S. operations nearly a year after getting snatched up by a Japanese casualty insurance giant. Canopius ...
Marsh, Aon Benfield Launch Cyber Covers Aimed at Cat, Re Buyers
Some major industry players have launched new policies designed to address growing need and demand for cyber insurance. Marsh, the global brokerage unit of Marsh & McClennan Cos., recently ...
Home Depot Cyber Violation Could Be Biggest Retail Breach Yet
Home Depot Inc., the largest home- improvement chain, confirmed that hackers attacked its computer systems at stores in the U.S. and Canada in what could be one of the retail industry's biggest ...
Americans Worry About Risks Caused by Drones: Chubb
Most Americans are worried that the increased use of drones in the U.S. could damage property, cause injury and create other new risks, the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies determined in a new ...
Verisk Names New ISO Division President
Verisk Analytics named Beth Fitzgerald as the new leader of its ISO Insurance Programs and Analytic Services arm. She replaces Kevin Thompson, who retired as a 40-year veteran of the company. ...
Aspen Names New Reinsurance CEO
Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd. - fresh from successfully rebuffing an M&A bid from a Bermuda reinsurance rival - has named a new leader of its reinsurance arm. The company said that Stephen ...
Industry Execs See Reinsurance Market Woes Continuing
The worst reinsurance market in memory looks set to carry into 2015, industry executives said. An absence of costly disasters and increasing competition from new entrants dragged on prices this year, ...