Commercial Lines
Executives On The Move at AIG and Wells Media Group
American International Group has a new chairman of its Risk Management division. Wells Media Group, publisher of Carrier Management, Insurance Journal and Claims Journal, has a new senior strategist, ...
After Historic Storms, Insurers May Not Be Able to Price Their Way Back
The worst hurricane season in modern U.S. history is starting to look like a blip on the charts of insurance stocks, with investors banking on a quick restoration of capital as firms rediscover ...
Q3 Catastrophe Fallout: XL Group’s Fitch Ratings Outlook Turns Negative
XL Group got smacked with a negative ratings outlook from Fitch Ratings, thanks to pre-tax natural catastrophe losses in Q3 that hit $1.48 billion. Fitch said it revised the ratings outlook to ...
Insurers Increasingly Anxious About Managing Risks: Wolters Kluwer Survey
Insurers appear to be increasingly anxious about their ability to manage risk across their lines of business, and much more concerned about regulation, according to Wolters Kluwer's new Regulatory ...
W.R. Berkley CEO: Cat Losses Will Force Carriers to Rethink Market Priorities
In light of hurricanes and earthquakes in the 2017 third quarter that left insured catastrophe losses likely surpassing $100 billion, W.R. Berkley Corp. President and CEO Robert Berkley Jr. said he ...
Big Oil’s $1B Climate Change Fund Chooses First Three Investments
A $1 billion fund created by top energy companies to curb climate change announced its first three investments on Friday and said two new members could be poised join the scheme. The Oil and Gas ...
AIG, Insurer to Disney/ABC, Sues to Avoid Paying Partial ‘Pink Slime’ Settlement Costs
American International Group Inc on Thursday sued Walt Disney Co to avoid having to reimburse the parent of ABC News for part of a settlement of a meat producer's defamation lawsuit over a product ...
Chubb CEO Greenberg: Q3 Catastrophe Hits ‘Within Our Tolerance for Risk’
Chubb, like many insurers and reinsurers, took significant catastrophe loss-hits from the hurricanes and earthquakes that struck in August and September. But the insurer kept overall net losses to ...