Commercial Lines
Wildfire Near Misses Spark Greater Push for Mitigation Efforts
As the Missionary Ridge Fire raged in 2002, the Valley Fire, a second fire, broke out and destroyed six homes within hours near the Falls Creek Ranch subdivision north of Durango, Colo. When ...
Argo Group, Joining Other Carriers, Ends Coverage of Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline
Lloyd's insurer Argo Group has decided to stop insuring Canada's Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline when its current insurance policy expires on Aug. 31, 2021, following similar moves by other ...
Climate Stress Test for Insurers and Banks Debuts at Bank of England
The Bank of England on Tuesday set out its first comprehensive stress test of the ability of the British financial system to cope with climate change, saying the results will not be used to determine ...
Insurers’ Worries Over ‘Zombie’ Firms Contribute to Rising Rates: Swiss Re
The expectation that hundreds of so-called zombie companies will fail over the next few years and drag on the economy is among the major concerns prompting insurers to reduce risk and charge higher ...
FBI Recovers Most of Bitcoin Ransom Paid by Colonial Pipeline
The U.S. recovered almost all the Bitcoin ransom paid to the perpetrators of the cyber attack on Colonial Pipeline Co. last month in a sign that law enforcement is capable of pursuing online ...
Amazon’s Bezos Announces Out-Of-This-World Risky Next Act
Amazon's billionaire founder Jeff Bezos said on Monday that he and his brother Mark will fly on the first crewed space flight from his rocket company Blue Origin next month. "Ever since I was five ...
Time For Insurers to Reassess ‘Grim’ Cyber Insurance Market: AM Best
With the cyber risk hazard environment—ransomware, business interruption and aggregation—worsening significantly, "prospects for the U.S. cyber insurance market are grim," according to a report ...
Federal Lawmakers Probing CNA Ransom, Cyber Insurance Payouts
Late last week, federal lawmakers requested information from Chicago-based insurer CNA about a March 21 cyber attack on the company and about a reported $40 million ransom CNA paid to end the ...