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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 ...
UK Home, Car Insurers may Be Stopped From Annual Price Hikes
U.K. home and car insurers could be stopped from jacking up prices when customers' policies come up for renewal as the country's financial-markets watchdog clamps down on an industry that's not ...
Tokio Marine to Grab PURE Group in $3.1B Deal
Tokio Marine Holdings Inc will buy insurer PURE Group for about $3.1 billion, it said on Thursday, marking its fourth sizable acquisition in the United States in a little over a decade. Japanese ...
New Hampshire Is Most Affordable State for Auto Insurance: J.D. Power
The average cost of auto insurance has risen at twice the rate of median household incomes across the U.S. over the past decade, according to the J.D. Power 2019 U.S. Insurance Shopping Study. Not ...
Practical Ways to Make InsurTech Work: ITC Panel
InsurTech is grabbing the attention of carriers and agencies alike, but the level of change it promises also causes anxiety. At the 2019 InsureTech Connect Conference in Las Vegas on Sept. 25, ...
Global Insurance Accelerator Boosts Seed Funding for Participating InsurTechs
The Global Insurance Accelerator said it is nearly doubling its seed funding for participating InsurTechs, starting with companies accepted into the program in 2020. A desire to stay competitive is ...
Generali CEO Donnet Mulls $3.3B Investment in Acquisitions
Assicurazioni Generali SpA, Italy's biggest insurer, may invest at least 3 billion euros ($3.3 billion) to grow through mid-size acquisitions in insurance and asset management, according to Chief ...