Commercial Lines
InsurTech Next Insurance Transforms From Digital Agency to Carrier
Next Insurance debuted in 2016 as a digital insurance agency for small to medium-size businesses. Today, the California startup officially announces its new status as a licensed insurance carrier, ...
U.S. P/C Combined Ratio Lands at Lowest Quarterly Level in 5 Years: A.M. Best
The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry saw its combined ratio improve by nearly five points in the 2018 first quarter and net underwriting income grow at a healthy clip, A.M. Best said in a ...
Lloyd’s Wins Approval to Open Its Post-Brexit London Subsidiary
Lloyd's of London has approval for its post-Brexit EU outpost in Belgium. The license approval came from the National Bank of Belgium for Lloyd's Insurance Co., or the Lloyd's Brussels outfit. ...
FTC Urged to Probe Tesla Autopilot Ads
Two U.S. consumer advocacy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday to investigate what they called Tesla Inc's "deceptive and misleading" use of the name Autopilot for its ...
Hackers Have Infected Routers, Storage Devices Globally. Will Russia Again Attack Ukraine?
Cisco Systems Inc on Wednesday warned that hackers have infected at least 500,000 routers and storage devices in dozens of countries with highly sophisticated malicious software, possibly in ...
Executives On The Move at AXIS Capital Holdings and Guy Carpenter
An AIG veteran is joining AXIS Capital Holdings as its new head of Investor Relations. Guy Carpenter & Company appointed a new managing director and senior broker for its UK non-marine ...
May’s ‘Ring of Fire’ Storms Will Produce $2.5B in Insurance Claims: Karen Clark & Co.
Heavy wind, hail and rain storms—a "ring of fire" that struck most states east of the Rocky Mountains May 11-16—will likely produce substantial insurance claims, catastrophe modeling firm Karen ...
New EU Data Protection Law May Lead to Diminished Underwriting Quality: A.M. Best
Complying with the European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation is leading insurers and reinsurers to dilute the types of data they gather—something that could diminish underwriting ...