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Lemonade Execs Expect ‘Peak Losses’ in 2022
With unfavorable development and product mix changes propelling fourth-quarter and full-year loss 2021 ratios into the 90s—up 20 points over comparable 2020 periods—Lemonade guided shareholders ...
Applied Underwriters to Acquire Catlin Specialty From AXA XL
Applied Underwriters has announced that it will acquire Catlin Specialty Insurance Company from the AXA XL group of companies. The move will consolidate Catlin into the North American Casualty group ...
Extreme Wildfires Expected to Increase 30% by 2050
Indonesia's peatlands, California's forests and vast swathes of Argentine wetland have all been ravaged by extreme wildfires, heralding a fiery future and the dire need to prevent it. With climate ...
Aging Oil-Storage Ships Pose Safety, Environmental Risks Around the World
The decades-old oil-storage ship that blew up off the coast of Nigeria recently — killing some of its crew and spewing its contents into the Atlantic Ocean — is one of many vessels of similar ...
Cyber Market Primed to Grow and Eclipse Property by 2040: Gallagher Re
Following a pause to stabilize the vessel, the cyber market is poised for a wave of growth that could make it larger than the property-catastrophe market by 2040, said Gallagher Re. In fact, if the ...
Actuaries: Social Inflation Increased Commercial Auto Claim Costs by $20B Over 10 Years
The insurance industry is ringing alarm bells about the cost of social inflation again, this time with the help of an actuarial analysis that concludes the phenomenon added more than $20 billion to ...
Porsches and Lamborghinis Lost at Sea in Cargo-Ship Fire Could Cost $155M
The cargo ship that caught fire last week carrying about 4,000 Volkswagen AG vehicles could cost the automaker at least $155 million, according to one consultant's estimate. Of the roughly $438 ...
Facebook to Pay $90M to Settle Privacy Lawsuit Over User Tracking
Facebook agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old privacy lawsuit accusing it of tracking users' Internet activity even after they logged out of the social media website. A proposed ...