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Warming Arctic Tundra Will Make It Tougher to Curb Climate Change: Study
The warming Arctic tundra will make it harder for the world to curb climate change, as thawing permafrost and wildfires release greenhouse gases that are not fully accounted for in global emissions ...
Metromile, Hippo Partner on Home/Auto Bundled Insurance Cover
Metromile and Hippo Insurance are partnering to offer consumers home and auto insurance protection by way of a new bundled discount. Hippo, based in Palo Alto, is an MGA focused on digital homeowners ...
An Alternative View: Crediting Credit Scores
While InsurTechs like Loop and Buckle are trying to reshape the future of insurance without using credit scores to underwrite or price policies, the rest of the industry has yet to embrace the ...
What Buckle Offers Now
Buckle currently works with nine reinsurers across four programs. In February 2020, Buckle began offering its hybrid personal and commercial auto insurance product to Lyft drivers in Georgia, ...
SCOR’s Kessler to Leave CEO Slot in June in Revamped Succession Plan
Denis Kessler, SCOR's chairman and chief executive officer, is stepping down for personal reasons from his CEO role at the end of June, much earlier than expected. The company is replacing him in a ...
Veteran Assurant CEO Colberg to Retire at Year-End; Demmings to Replace Him
Assurant CEO Alan Colberg plans to retire at the end of 2021, and the company has designed Keith Demmings to replace him. Demmings, currently the leader of Assurant's Global Lifestyle segment, has ...
Private Firefighters Highlight Inequities in California Wildfire Battles
Last October, firefighter Ryan Bellanca and his crew battled to keep the raging Glass Fire from devastating an upmarket Napa Valley vineyard.
But Bellanca wasn't ...
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Buys Big Aon Stake
Berkshire Hathaway Inc said on Monday it has taken a $943 million stake in insurance brokerage Aon Plc and sold large portions of its investments in Chevron Corp and Wells Fargo & Co. The changes ...