Personal Lines
California Utility Slices Power for 800,000 as Wildfire Risks Rise
Hundreds of thousands of California homes and businesses started to lose electric power early Wednesday as part of an unprecedented effort by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to prevent wildfires, the ...
Executives On the Move at Zurich and Guy Carpenter
Guy Carpenter & Co. appointed an interim head of International Facultative Operations, to deal with an executive departure. Zurich Canada brought in an outside executive to run its Travel ...
Some See Nuclear Power as a Tool to Fight Catastrophic Climate Change
Catastrophic climate change can still be averted even without increasing one of the biggest sources of carbon-free electricity. That was the message sent to International Atomic Energy Agency ...
Florida Personal Lines Insurer Ordered Into Receivership
Florida personal lines insurer Florida Specialty Insurance Co. (FSIC) has been ordered into receivership and will be liquidated after state regulators determined the company is insolvent and unable ...
Spiritual and Emotional Capacity: 2 Qualities That Great Leaders Need
Spiritual and emotional capacity are two qualities that leaders might want to nurture in themselves and their teams. A recent posting with the Leadership Freak blog by the author Robert Glazer ...
Verisk Must Pay $125M to EagleView in Patent Infringement Verdict
A New Jersey recently ordered insurance data services firm Verisk to pay $125 million to aerial imaging firm EagleView for lost profits linked to Verisk infringing on various EagleView patents. The ...
A Red Sox/Yankees Game Helped Bring Tokio Marine and PURE Group Together
PURE Group, the high-net-worth insurer set to be acquired by Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., had been on the Japanese company's radar for more than a decade. After PURE was created in 2006, Tokio Marine ...
Opinion: Climate Change Risks for Homebuyers Old and New
Climate change poses risks to real estate that homebuyers may not be able to predict. As sea level rises, coastal properties, for example, may be subject to increased flooding and intensifying storm ...