Commercial Lines
Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Chooses Brown as New Leader
The Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Companies and Countryway Insurance Co. has a new leader. Robert F. Brown was named executive vice president and general manager for both entities. Brown has ...
Executives On The Move at BHSI and Liberty Mutual
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance promoted an executive to be head of Executive & Professional lines in Canada. Liberty Specialty Markets, part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, appointed a ...
Ransomware Is Biggest Online Threat Facing UK: Official
Professional criminals holding businesses to ransom — often with the support of nation-states — is the key online threat facing the UK, the country's cyber security chief will say Monday. Lindy ...
Hospital Workers’ Lawsuit Over Vaccine Requirement Tossed by Judge
A U.S. federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by 117 workers at a Texas hospital over its requirement that they be vaccinated against COVID-19. U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes upheld Houston ...
SOMPO Invests Additional $45M in One Concern, a Global Resilience AI Startup
SOMPO Holdings, one of Japan's largest insurers, is investing an additional $45 million in One Concern, Inc., an AI startup focused on building the global resilience market. The money is part of an ...
VW Discloses Vendor Data Breach Affected 3.3 Million People in North America
Volkswagen AG's U.S. unit said a data breach at a vendor impacted more than 3.3 million customers and prospective buyers in North America. Nearly all those impacted were current or potential ...
U.S. Insurers Slammed in May by Hail, Tornado, Wind and Floods
Many U.S. insurers face a multi-billion-dollar payout from May's convective storms, which spawned extensive hail, tornado, wind and flood damage across a series of separate events during the month, ...
Forgotten Your Passwords? They Soon May Be Lost Altogether – With Insurers’ Help
The most popular password in 2020 was exposed almost 24 million times and took less than a second to crack. While a shocking statistic, when you learn that the most popular password of 2020 was ...