Commercial Lines
AmTrust Spent More than $33M to Clean Up Accounting Issues
AmTrust Financial released its 2017 Q1 earnings statement on May 8, after pursuing an audit and having to restate a few years of earnings due to financial reporting concerns. Cleaning up its ...
More China Insurance Regulators Reportedly Under Scrutiny
Chinese investigators have questioned at least two more officials at the nation's insurance watchdog after starting a probe into the agency's former top official Xiang Junbo, according to a person ...
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Blame Brexit: 9,000 Bank Jobs Will Move From London to EU Over 2 Years
The largest global banks in London plan to move about 9,000 jobs to the continent in the next two years, public statements and information from sources shows, as the exodus of finance jobs starts to ...
Catastrophes Drove Private U.S. P/C Insurers to $4.7B Net Underwriting Loss: ISO and PCI Report
Private U.S. property/casualty insurers lost big in 2016, with a $4.7 billion net underwriting loss driven, in part, by significantly higher catastrophe-related insured property losses, according to ...
The Latest Launches From Guidewire, Palomar/AAA, Beazley and Allied World
Palomar Specialty Insurance Company and AAA Club Alliance will sell residential earthquake insurance in Oklahoma. Guidewire Software issued the 2017.1 version of its Guidewire InsurancePlatform. ...
Implications of NYDFS Regulations on Cyber and D&O Exposure
March 1, 2017 marks the effective date for the first-of-their-kind cybersecurity regulations from the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). The regulations, which will be phased in over ...
Munger Sees Danger, Opportunity in Berkshire Hathaway’s $10.2B AIG Deal
Charles Munger, the vice chairman of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., said the decision to take on insurance liabilities from American International Group Inc. offers plenty of risk, and ...
Weaker Results at GEICO, Gen Re Dampen Berkshire Hathaway’s Q1 Profit
Berkshire Hathaway Inc , the conglomerate run by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, reported a 27 percent decline in first-quarter profit on Friday, and said a loss from insurance underwriting ...