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China’s Top Insurance Regulator Under Investigation in Corruption Probe
China's anti-graft agency is probing the nation's top insurance official Xiang Junbo as the government steps up a bid to rein in financial risks amid an economic slowdown. Xiang, chairman of the ...
U.S. Storms Cost Insurers More Than $2B in March: Aon
The U.S. was hit by a series of severe weather events in March, leading to extensive damage in central and eastern parts of the country and aggregated insurance losses expected to exceed $2.0 ...
Wells Fargo Investors Urged to Unload Most Board Members Over Fake Account Scandal
Wells Fargo & Co. shareholders should vote to remove most of the bank's board members after they failed to provide "timely and sufficient risk oversight" to head off a scandal involving the ...
April Renewals Saw ‘Disciplined Softening’ With Abundant Capacity: Aon & Willis Re
With abundant capacity, aggressive capital market competition and acceptable returns for global reinsurers, it's no wonder that the elusive bottom of soft market pricing was not evident at April 1 ...
Chubb CEO Greenberg’s Comments on ‘Abusive’ Broker Behavior Not About U.S. Market: Industry Group
Chubb President and CEO Evan Greenberg is slamming the behavior of some brokers as "abusive," but a major industry group asserts that he wasn't referring to anyone in the U.S. market. The remarks at ...
ProPublica, Consumer Reports Respond to Criticism of Report on Auto Insurance Prices in Minority Areas
ProPublica and Consumer Reports have issued a response to the opinion column by Insurance Information Institute's James Lynch criticizing their report, Minority Neighborhoods Pay Higher Car Insurance ...
Twitter Defends Free Speech of Member in Suit Against Trump Administration
Twitter Inc has not had a lot to celebrate lately, but a U.S. government demand that it reveal the identity of an account criticizing President Donald Trump's immigration policies gave the company a ...
Executives On The Move at Chubb, QBE North America and More
QBE North America hired a former AIG and Attune executive in a leadership role focused on multinational offerings. Chubb has a new senior vice president focused on North America commercial insurance. ...