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Fund Transfer Frauds, Data Theft Trends to Continue in 2023: Beazley
Incidents of fraudulent instruction scams were up 13 percent in 2022, according to specialist insurer Beazley's new Cyber Services Snapshot report. Under fraudulent instruction scams, criminals use ...
Moody’s Downgrades SCOR’s Rating to A1 From Aa3 on Weakening Profits
Moody's Investors Service downgraded the Insurance Financial Strength Rating (IFSR) of SCOR SE and its key operating entities to A1 from Aa3 while at the same time ...
Allstate’s Plan to Return to Profit in Auto
Following a year of turbulence in its auto insurance business, Allstate Corp. outlined what CEO Tom Wilson called the company's No. 1 priority: improve margins.
Social media influencers and an insurance industry think tank are giving Hyundai and Kia vehicles the worst kind of publicity: Many of the cars the company sold are easy ...
InsurTech Spotlight: FloodFlash Is Closing Coverage Gaps with Parametrics
True to its name, a 2012 flooding event is what initially sparked the idea for the commercial flood InsurTech, FloodFlash. Since then, the company has grown out of an apartment kitchen to a fully ...
Insurance Groundhogs Have Their Day: Some Primary Prices Need to Go Higher
Sure, it's nice to know whether Spring is around the corner or more than a month away, but what about insurance market conditions? How long will a hard market last in many lines? Are insurance prices ...
Marsh: Global Commercial Insurance Pricing Up 4% in Q4 2022
Global commercial insurance prices increased 4% in the fourth quarter of 2022, down from a 6% increase in the third quarter and a 9% increase in the second quarter, according to the Global Insurance ...
Gallagher Re: InsurTech Funding Falls to Lowest Quarterly Level Since 2020
At $1.01 billion, global InsurTech investment fell in the fourth quarter of 2022 to its lowest quarterly level since the first quarter of 2020 and declined 57.0% from the third quarter of 2022, ...
Swiss Re Revamps Structure by Splitting Reinsurance Biz, Creating Client Business Unit
Swiss Re announced plans to streamline its organizational structure by splitting its current Reinsurance Business Unit into P&C Re and L&H Re, while creating a new business unit called Global ...
Insurers Leery of Hyundais and Kias Famous on Social Media for Being Easy to Steal