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NAMIC Conference: Gen Re’s Kingdollar Sounds Alarm About Emerging Risks
Cyber attacks, nanotechnology, 3D printing, and natural gas drilling aren't necessarily on the minds of your typical property/casualty mutual insurer. But Charlie Kingdollar said that these and many ...
London Is Priciest City to Employ Staff
London surpassed Hong Kong as the world's most expensive city for companies to locate employees after rents climbed and the pound appreciated against the dollar. London real estate costs, which ...
Travelers Adds ACA Coverages to Management Liability Portfolio
Citing recent survey results that show widespread unfamiliarity among U.S. businesses with requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Travelers has announced the addition ...
ACE Private Risk Services Makes Key Executive Appointments
ACE Group's high-net-worth personal lines insurance business, ACE Private Risk Services, has named Clyde Douglas as senior vice president of Claims and Eileen Castolene as vice president of ...
Few Bad Weather Events = Strong P/C Q3: KBW
Most property/casualty insurers and reinsurers will likely have strong 2014 third-quarter results, thanks to the absence of major hurricanes and below-average catastrophe losses, analysts at Keefe, ...
Prop. 103 vs. Self-Driving Cars Revving Up in California
Way back in 1988 it probably seemed like the idea of self-driving vehicles was about as far off as flying cars or hovercraft. That was the year California voters enacted Proposition 103, giving an ...
Swiss Re’s Chief Economist Analyzes a Difficult Reinsurance Market
Over the past 13 years, Swiss Re's Chief Economist Kurt Karl has been through a succession of reinsurance market ups and downs, but he says the current situation is somewhat new and requires special ...
Nursing Home Trial Challenges Liability Transfers to Shell Companies
Juanita Jackson died in July 2003, five weeks after she was removed from a Florida nursing home where her family said continual neglect led to multiple bedsores, malnutrition and a fall that injured ...