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Frequency of Cyber Breach Attacks Down: RMS Report
While it may seem like more cyber breach attacks are being reported than ever before, the number of breach events in the United States has been declining over the last three years, an RMS expert said ...
Silent Attacks and Cyber War: What Cyber Insurance Experts Worry About
During the RMS Cyber Risk Seminar, RMS SVP Peter Ulrich asked cyber insurance market participants what keeps them up at night. Here's what they said. Lori Bailey, global head of special lines for ...
Cyber Insurance Pricing Not Keeping Pace as Exposures Rise
Increasing competition in the cyber insurance market is keeping prices for coverage below where they probably should be, experts said at an industry conference that took place just days after the ...
Volkswagen Seeks Dismissal of $1B Wyoming Environmental Lawsuit
Volkswagen AG, trying to put a massive emissions-cheating scandal behind it, has asked a U.S. judge to reject a lawsuit by Wyoming potentially seeking more than $1 billion in additional penalties for ...
AIG CEO Duperreault Wants to Rebuild Insurer’s ‘Strong’ Talent Bench
Brian Duperreault, American International Group's CEO since May, is trying to get the word out that the struggling insurer is a great place to work again. His predecessor, Peter Hancock, slashed jobs ...
Allstate’s Q2 Profit Doubles Thanks to Higher Premiums, Investment Gains
Allstate saw its profit more than double thanks to increased premiums, strong investment results and lower auto insurance claims frequency. Net income was $550 million for the second quarter of 2017 ...
AIG Follows Travelers, Chubb in Scaling Back Wall Street Guidance
Brian Duperreault, the new chief executive officer of American International Group Inc., said the company will scale back the projections it provides to Wall Street after his predecessors were burned ...
AIG Saved Money, But Saw Q2 Commercial Insurance Losses Climb
American International Group reported a difficult 2017 second quarter, with net income plunging over the previous year, and a commercial insurance combined ratio that came close to 103. The ...