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InsurTech Coalition Forms Captive Insurer to Enhance Cyber Capacity
Managing general insurance agency and cybersecurity company Coalition has launched a captive insurer to begin taking risk on its cyber insurance programs. The captive, domiciled in Hawaii, will ...
Easing Supply Chains, Other Factors Could Rein in Inflation: Economists
Inflation is painfully high, but this hopefully is close to as bad as it gets. Consumer prices rose 6.8 percent for the 12 months ending in November, a 39-year high. Many economists expect inflation ...
Climate Change Worsened Extreme Weather Across the Globe in 2021
Extreme weather events in 2021 shattered records around the globe. Hundreds died in storms and heatwaves. Farmers struggled with drought, and in some cases with locust plagues. Wildfires set new ...
Generali Links With Accenture, Vodafone to Provide Cyber Insurance Services
Generali has joined forces with Accenture and Vodafone Business to create a package of cyber insurance services for corporate and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) clients. The services include ...
MAPFRE to Make Nearly $984M Payout Over Controversial Columbia Dam
Spanish insurer Mapfre on Friday signed a contract to make a $983.8 million contingency payout to Colombia's Empresas Publicas de Medellin (EPM) over issues with the construction of the massive ...
Toyota Starts Offering Auto Cover With Farmers-Owned Toggle in 5 States
Automaker Toyota's insurance arm has begun selling its first branded insurance coverage, Toyota Auto Insurance, in Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and South Carolina, and will soon be offering the ...
Insurance Rates Soar to Cover M&A Boom, Deal or Not
The cost of insurance to cover problems involving M&A has nearly doubled in just two years, underwriters and brokers said, after an explosion of global dealmaking during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
Half of $17B Litigation Funding ‘Industry’ Money Spent in the U.S.: Swiss Re
Litigation funding has become a $17 billion industry globally, with 52 percent of that money being spent in the United States, Swiss Re said in a report released Thursday. The reinsurer said ...