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COVID-19 Helping to Push Millennials Out of Housing Market: Legal & General Study
Home insurers should take note: the COVID-19 pandemic has apparently helped to dampen home ownership plans for U.S. millennials, according to a new Legal & General Study looking at the market ...
Executives On The Move at The Hartford and Swiss Re
The Hartford named one of its rising executives to be head of the Western Division for its Middle and Large Commercial Insurance business. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions appointed a new Head, Crisis ...
Tokio Marine’s Singapore Subsidiary Struck by Cyber Attack
Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore Ltd. (TMiS), a subsidiary of Tokio Marine Group, announced it was hit by a ransomware cyber attack. Upon a detection of the attack, TMiS immediately took necessary ...
Former Purdue Pharma President Sackler Testifies His Family Didn’t Fuel Opioid Epidemic
Former Purdue Pharma President Richard Sackler said on Wednesday that his family's reign over the OxyContin maker did not contribute to the national opioid epidemic and downplayed his role in a ...
U.S. Cannabis Insurers Quietly Prepare for Increasingly Likely Federal Legalization
Insurers are quietly gearing up for a potential ten-fold increase in sales to the booming $17.6 billion-a-year cannabis industry as Congress inches closer to legalizing pot at the federal level. ...
Ohio Mutual Insurance Group and SimpliSafe to Partner on Risk Mitigation Initiative
Regional insurer Ohio Mutual Insurance Group is partnering with home security systems maker SimpliSafe to offer preventative smart home protection against major insurance perils to homeowners in ...
Executives On The Move at AXIS Insurance and Africa Specialty Risks
AXIS Insurance made three new appointments within its U.S. Excess and Surplus Property team, including a former Chubb executive. Africa Specialty Risks, the pan-African focused reinsurance group, ...
Kin Insurance Upgrades Reinsurance Program to Beef Up Disaster Protection Capacity
Kin Insurance said it has upgraded its reinsurance program to enhance its disaster protection and beef up its ability to serve catastrophe prone regions, particularly in light of worsening climate ...