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Italy’s Generali Plans Staggered Dividend Payout Despite Regulator Resistence
Italy's biggest insurer Generali on Friday said it would pay its 2019 dividend in two tranches, confirming a total payout of 0.96 euros per share, citing its strong capital position. The announcement ...
Claims Professionals Adjust to a Landscape Changed by Coronavirus Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has not shut down the day-to-day business of adjusting claims, but the workload is lighter and claims managers are coping with evolving government regulations and guidelines. ...
Insurance Firms Begin Covering Charter Flights Carrying Gold
Insurance firms have started covering charter flights to carry gold, helping to ease logjams in the bullion supply chain that caused prices to diverge sharply in different markets, the London Bullion ...
P/C Insurance Industry Is Least Affected by Coronavirus Pandemic: Standard & Poor’s
P/C insurance is the least-impacted industry by the coronavirus pandemic, at least so far, according to an analysis from S&P Global Market Intelligence. S&P compiled its analysis for March, ...
The Latest Launches From Cape Analytics/Kin and Corvus Insurance
Cape Analytics and Kin Insurance will expand a partnership involving remote risk assessment for homeowners insurance customers. Corvus Insurance launched a new initiative providing cyber risk ...
InsurTechs Focused on Structural Data, Vehicle Title Digitization Attract Financing
An American Family spinout raised $8 million in Series A financing that will help expand the reach of its residential and commercial property characteristic data and predictive analysis products. ...
Weather Risks Could Become Uninsurable Without Acting on Climate Change: Swiss Re
Global warming will lead to growing intensity and frequency of severe weather events, rising losses, as well as greater uncertainty in the assessment of these events by the insurance industry, which ...
Zoom Class Action Suit Alleges Overstatement of Privacy Standards, Nondisclosure of Security Flaws
Zoom Video Communications Inc was slapped with a class action suit by one of its shareholders on Tuesday, accusing the video-conferencing app of overstating its privacy standards and failing to ...