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The 2019 Atlantic Hurricane Season Could Bring 13 Named Storms
There's a lot of reasons people think 13 is an unlucky number. This year may add another. At least 13 storm systems should reach tropical strength and get a name in 2019, with five becoming ...
Russia Banks, Money Transfer Firms Sued Over Downed Malaysian Airlines Plane
The family of an American killed when a Malaysian Airlines plane was shot down over Ukraine in 2014 filed a lawsuit on Thursday against U.S.-based money transfer companies and two Russian banks they ...
Executives On The Move at Everest Insurance and AmeriTrust Group
Everest Insurance named a new chief commercial officer. AmeriTrust Group Inc. has a new chief of staff, after promoting from within. *** Everest Insurance appointed Dane Lopes to the expanded ...
New Slice Labs Unit Relies on AI, Machine Learning to Help Clients Fine-Tune Their Operations
Slice Labs Inc., known for its on-demand insurance cloud platform, recently launched a new business unit. The division, named Slice Mind, centers around an "insight engine that helps companies with ...
Massive Amounts of Facebook User Data Found Posted on Amazon Cloud Servers
Facebook Inc. user data is still showing up in places it shouldn't. Researchers at UpGuard, a cybersecurity firm, found troves of user information hiding in plain sight, inadvertently posted publicly ...
Brexit Continues Pushing UK Financial Jobs Out of the Country: Think Tank
Financial firms in Britain continue to shift business to new European Union hubs and won't stop unless Brexit is canceled, a think tank told British lawmakers on Wednesday. William Wright, head of ...
UK Specialty MGA Nexus Buys an MGA and a Broker
UK specialty managing general agent Nexus Group lived up to its description as an "acquisitive insurance intermediary holding company," with the purchase this week of an MGA and an insurance broker. ...
American Family Insurance Will Pay $1 Billion for Ameriprise Auto & Home
Ameriprise Financial is selling its Ameriprise Auto & Home (AAH) division to a subsidiary of Madison, Wisconsin-based American Family Insurance Mutual Holding Co. (American Family Insurance), the ...