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Executives On The Move at Chubb and AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd.
Chubb promoted a key executive to handle claims operations for Europe and Eurasia & Africa. AXIS Capital Holdings hired two new executives – veterans of Swiss Re and Ascent Underwriting – to ...
A Large Swath of Businesses Remain Ill-Prepared for Cyber Attacks: Hiscox
A study of 3,000 companies in the UK, U.S. and Germany, reveals that more than half (53 percent) of businesses in the three countries are ill-prepared to deal with cyber attacks. Fewer than one-third ...
State of Core Solutions Transition: Which Tech Priorities Are Being Carried Out?
Presented by Majesco
You have two watches. Your first watch is analog. It has dials, gears, crystals and movements. It is a machine...
Travelers, Allied World, AIG Vets Tapped to Help BHSI Expand From New London Office
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Company is tapping veteran executives from Allied World, Travelers and AIG to help oversee expanded operations in the United Kingdom and Southern Europe. A new ...
17 Months Later, VW Emissions Scandal Legal Trouble Keeps Coming
Luxembourg has launched criminal proceedings over Volkswagen's diesel emissions scandal, showing the German carmaker is still struggling to draw a line under the crisis some 17 months after it broke. ...
Higher Claims, Falling Prices Hurt Munich Re’s Q4 Profit
Munich Re, the world's biggest reinsurer, reported a bigger-than-expected drop in fourth-quarter earnings as claims from natural disasters rose while prices continue to fall. Net income declined to ...
Only 5 Percent of Large UK Firms Have Board-Level Cyber Expertise: Deloitte
Only 5 percent of large U.K. companies say their boards include directors with expertise in information technology or cyber security, even though the vast majority identify hacking and other digital ...
Catastrophe Tests Show London Insurers’ Capital Risks and Resilience
A major $200 billion loss from a combination of a cyber attack, U.S. hurricane and the failure of a reinsurer could strip insurers of up to 120 percent of their net capital base, tests of insurers in ...
CNA CEO Robusto ‘Back in the Game,’ Though 2017 Has Room for Improvement
CNA reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2016 results, with its new CEO indicating that while there is a strong foundation at the insurer, the company has work to do in improving underwriting ...