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Survey: Some Customers Let Auto Insurance Lapse in Quest for Savings
A new report out this week offers updated insights on customer buying habits when it comes to personal auto and homeowners insurance. "Insurance Personal Lines Trends and Perspectives," a quarterly ...
Supreme Court Spurns Dispute Over Roundup Class-Action Settlement
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a dispute involving a lawsuit against Bayer AG's Monsanto Co that could rein in a common form of settlement in class action cases under which money ...
AM Best: Current D&O Market Rates Could Prove Inadequate
Buyers of directors and officers liability may be getting a break from steep rate and price increases seen over the last several years, but insurance industry rating agency AM Best said it remains to ...
Consistent Policy Wording Bringing Some Relief to Evolving Cyber Market
Consistency within cyber insurance policies is something the industry has been grappling with for nearly a decade, according to speakers at the annual RIMS Riskworld conference, held this year in ...
Seeing Differently With Aerial Imagery
To the average person, aerial imagery and satellite imagery are thought of as interchangeable technologies that have similar processes and produce similar end results. However, this could not be ...
Top Cyber Insurers: 2022 Ranking Reveals Sprinters, Market Share Shifts
In a year when cyber insurers notched the third-lowest industrywide loss ratio since 2015, and cyber premiums vaulted to $7.2 billion, a premium ranking shows two carriers growing more than 150 ...
Catalytic Theft Claims Triple in Two Years, Crime Bureau Report Finds
Insurance claims for catalytic converter thefts nationwide jumped by 288 percent in just two years, the National Insurance Crime Bureau said in a new report. Claims rose from 16,660 in 2020 to 64,701 ...
Third Point’s Loeb Won’t Take SiriusPoint Private
Billionaire investor Daniel Loeb is no longer exploring a potential acquisition of SiriusPoint Ltd SPNT.N, according to a regulatory filing on Friday, a month after disclosing his interest in taking ...