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Cybercrime Shifts Toward More Profitable Business Attacks
Cybercriminals shifted away from stealing individual consumers' information in 2020 to focus on bigger, more profitable attacks on businesses, according to a report from the Identity Theft Resource ...
Executives On The Move at AXIS Re and Coalition
AXIS Re appointed a new head of AXIS Re's Reinsurance Products division. Coalition has appointed five new production underwriters to help grow and serve the company's middle market relationships.
Kemper Granted A.M. Best Ratings Upgrade
Kemper Corp. was granted an A.M. Best upgrade of its financial strength rating, based on a strong balance sheet and solid operating performance over time. The property/casualty insurer and its ...
Amended Law Slows Nursing Home COVID Court Claims
Garnice Robertson wants accountability for her mother's death from COVID-19 caught while she was living at a Kansas nursing home that allegedly failed to prevent an outbreak of the disease. An ...
Rent Security Deposit Insurance Startup Raises $95M
New York City-based InsurTech Rhino recently pulled in $95 million in new financing, money that will propel growth of its security deposit insurance business. Investment firm Tiger Global Management ...
Top 2021 Risks Look Much Like 2020: Pandemic Fallout and Cyber Attacks
There was no escaping the coronavirus in 2020 and the pandemic will dominate the risk landscape again in 2021, according to global leaders in business, risk management and insurance. A trio of ...
The Latest Launches From The Hartford, Roost and Buckle
The Hartford is working with Tractable on a claims process project involving artificial intelligence. Roost, a developer of home telematics for property insurance carriers, added a new service to its ...
Allianz Wins China Approval to Launch Insurance Asset Management Firm
Allianz said on Thursday it had obtained regulatory approval to set up China's first wholly foreign-owned insurance asset management company, as the German insurer steps up expansion in the world's ...
USAA Dives Into Small Business Insurance Market
USAA will start writing its own small business insurance policies for the first time. Initial coverage in the space will be available immediately in five states – Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, South ...