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Rethinking the Limits of Parametric Insurance
It's time to rethink the limits of parametric insurance. The concept behind parametric insurance is not new. Insurance payouts automatically triggered by an event exceeding an index level have ...
Executives On The Move at AmTrust and BHSI
AmTrust Financial Service's E&S unit launched its new excess casualty underwriting division and has hired a former Everest Reinsurance Division to lead it. An ex-RSA executive will lead Bershire ...
Munich Re, AAIS Partner to Develop Private Flood Insurance Incentives
Munich Re said it will work with an insurance industry non-profit to help close the flood insurance gap in the U.S. and creative potential incentives for a private market. The global reinsurer's ...
JLT Specialty USA Founding Leader Rice Becomes CEO of CAC Specialty
Newly launched specialty insurance broker CAC Specialty announced the appointment of Michael D. Rice II as its chief executive officer. Rice brings years of experience in the brokerage industry. Most ...
Lockton Joins $32 Million Funding for Bold Penguin, a Commercial Lines InsurTech
Bold Penguin, a commercial insurance technology provider in Columbus, Ohio, said it has completed a $32 million Series B funding round, bringing the total capital it has raised to more than $50 ...
Carriers, California Utility Blast Rival Plan That Would Pay Fire Victims Before Insurers
PG&E Corp. and a group of insurers urged a judge to reject a competing reorganization plan for the bankrupt utility because the proposal would pay fire victims who lost their homes ahead of ...
Insurers, Pension Funds Pledge Climate Action at U.N. Summit
Insurers and pension funds managing $2.3 trillion pledged on Monday to shift their portfolios away from carbon-heavy industries in the hope of triggering snowballing climate commitments from other ...
Collapse of Thomas Cook Leads to Massive Tourist Airlift
The U.K. government deployed the "largest repatriation in peacetime history" to bring home more than 150,000 tourists stranded on overseas beaches and in vacation hotspots by the collapse of tour ...