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Liberty Mutual and TuSimple to Assess Autonomous Truck Safety
Liberty Mutual Insurance plans to work with TuSimple, a self-driving technology company, to assess if autonomous trucks are safer than human-driven vehicles. Specifically, the companies will compare ...
How COVID Impacts Insurance in Unforeseen Ways
Having recently marked the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems like an opportune time to consider how the pandemic has impacted the insurance industry. While business interruption ...
Global P/C Insurance M&A Activity Soared Even With Pandemic Obstacles: Conning
Global P/C insurance M&A activity was "surprisingly rigorous" in 2020 despite significant challenges created by the coronavirus pandemic, Conning said. Conning tracked $28.6 billion in ...
New FAA Rules Should Expand Commercial Use of Drones
New Federal Aviation Administration rules are expected to clear the way for expanded commercial use of drones, which are increasingly being used by insurers to assess property damage. The updated ...
Executives On The Move at Zurich and BHSI
Zurich Insurance Group named a former AXA XL executive to a newly created role that address financial lines and cyber together. Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance appointed a new senior ...
Save for Cyber, Global Commercial Insurance Price Hikes Begin to Moderate: Marsh
Global commercial insurance pricing continued its double-digit growth in the 2021 first quarter, but the rate of increase dipped for the first time since late 2017, Marsh found in its latest market ...
China-Based InsurTech Waterdrop Hopes to Raise $360M in New York IPO
Chinese online insurance technology firm Waterdrop Inc aims to raise up to $360 million in an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange, company filings show. Waterdrop, which is backed ...
Swiss Cybersecurity Firm Acronis Nails Down $250M Financing Round
Swiss cyber security firm Acronis said on Tuesday it has received more than $250 million in a financing round led by CVC Capital valuing it at more than $2.5 billion. Founded in Singapore in 2003, ...