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What About Independent Agents? Root’s Focus on Embedded Insurance, CEO Says
While he didn't say that distribution of Root Insurance products through independent agents was off the table in 2022, the InsurTech's chief executive officer did say the company is now laser-focused ...
Ukraine Invasion Analysis: AM Best Sees ‘Significant Implications’ for Insurers
AM Best believes that Russia's invasion of Ukraine could have a "substantial impact" on the world's insurance industry in the near to midterm, the rating agency said in a report published on Friday. ...
Stopping for No Reason: Safety Officials Probing 1.7M Hondas
U.S. auto safety regulators are investigating complaints that the automatic emergency braking systems on more than 1.7 million newer Hondas can stop the vehicles for no reason. The National Highway ...
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 ...