Commercial Lines
WannaCry, Petya Cyber Attacks Cost Europe’s Companies Hundreds of Millions of Dolllars
Global hackers have unleashed a brace of attacks in recent months, but while their haul in bitcoin has been paltry, the revenue hit to companies infected is reaching into the hundreds of millions of ...
New York Regulators Seek Info From National General, Others in Wells Fargo Scandals
Two New York regulators sent subpoenas related to practices in the auto lending unit of Wells Fargo & Co., the bank struggling with multiple consumer scandals. The New York Department of ...
Herbicide Dicamba Wreaking Havoc on U.S. Crops
Larry Martin in Illinois says he's never seen anything like it in his 35 years of farming. Arkansas soybean grower Joe McLemore says he faces the loss of his life savings. They're among farmers ...
Cyber ‘Worm’ Disrupts Q2 Corporate Earnings for Many Firms
Costly cyber attacks are having a bigger impact on corporate earnings and are becoming a fact of life for companies as Oreo cookie maker Mondelez, drug maker Merck and others said that a destructive ...
Travelers CEO Schnitzer Adds ‘Chairman’ to His Title
The Travelers Companies' CEO Alan Schnitzer has added the title of "chairman" to his nameplate, ending a management structure put in place after the company's legendary leader, Jay Fishman, died of ...
Executives On The Move at Beazley, Kemper, Nationwide and Guy Carpenter
Beazley named a new executive to help grow its engineering business in the U.S. and Latin America. Nationwide hired a financial industry veteran to be chief of investment research for a key division. ...
Data Breaches Caused by Employee Error Still a Huge Problem: Beazley
Hacking and malware attacks including ransomware attacks continue to be the leading cause of breaches, accounting for 32 percent of the 1,330 incidents that insurer Beazley's in-house Breach Response ...
Anbang Insurance Could Encounter Problems Selling Down Assets
As Anbang Insurance Group Co. comes under pressure to reverse a $10 billion-plus global deal spree, a quick selldown of assets may not be so easy. China is said to have asked the acquisitive insurer ...