Personal Lines
Companies Can Attract Millennials by Helping Repay Their Student Debt
Like millions of her peers, Nicole Read graduated with thousands of dollars of debt. Unlike most of them, she's getting direct help from her employer to pay it back. The 26-year-old's job at event ...
Executives On The Move at Fairfax Financial Holdings, Travelers and Alliant Insurance Services
Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. appointed a new chief financial officer. The Travelers Companies, Inc. named two executives as Co-Chief Investment Officer. Alliant Insurance Services hired an outside ...
AIG CEO Duperreault ‘Encouraged’ by Hardening Market, Talks Operational Overhaul
AIG President and CEO Brian Duperreault said that the evolving, hardening market is sustainable and dovetailing nicely with the insurer's ongoing efforts to shed excessively risky business. "We are ...
New Aviva CEO Starts Turnaround Efforts; Asia Unit’s Options Still on Table
Aviva Plc confirmed it's examining options for its Asian business as new Chief Executive Officer Maurice Tulloch's turnaround of the U.K.'s only insurance conglomerate takes shape. The firm confirmed ...
Insurers Pressured by Activist Groups to Drop Coverage of Oil Sands Pipeline
A coalition of 32 environmental and indigenous groups on Thursday urged insurers to stop underwriting the Trans Mountain pipeline to pressure Canada to cancel its plan to expand the project which ...
Zurich Insurance Ends Revamp Ahead of Schedule, With Goals Complete
Zurich Insurance Group AG said it will exceed all of its financial targets as the global insurer benefits from a three-year turnaround plan that slashed costs. The combined ratio, a key measure of ...
Mobile Sales Assistant Vymo Raises $19M; AXA, Allianz Among Customers
Vymo, a technology company whose mobile app captures and automates data for insurance sales reps and others on the go, has raised $18 million in new financing. The India-based SaaS (software as a ...
Root Insurance Enters California Market, Where Telematics Underwriting Tool Doesn’t Apply
Root Insurance, an auto insurance startup that does business via smartphone, has entered the California market. But there's a catch. Root's app uses smartphone technology, telematics and data science ...