Personal Lines
Insurers Back Global Regulation Provision in Newly-Passed Banking Reform Bill
The financial services regulatory reform measure passed by Congress yesterday, which contains parts of more than 25 different bills, includes a provision on international insurance regulation that is ...
Critics Worry FEMA Isn’t Ready for Hurricane Season
With just a week to go before hurricane season, top jobs at the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency remain vacant and critics say that will make it harder for the government to respond to ...
U.S. P/C Combined Ratio Lands at Lowest Quarterly Level in 5 Years: A.M. Best
The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry saw its combined ratio improve by nearly five points in the 2018 first quarter and net underwriting income grow at a healthy clip, A.M. Best said in a ...
Hackers Have Infected Routers, Storage Devices Globally. Will Russia Again Attack Ukraine?
Cisco Systems Inc on Wednesday warned that hackers have infected at least 500,000 routers and storage devices in dozens of countries with highly sophisticated malicious software, possibly in ...
May’s ‘Ring of Fire’ Storms Will Produce $2.5B in Insurance Claims: Karen Clark & Co.
Heavy wind, hail and rain storms—a "ring of fire" that struck most states east of the Rocky Mountains May 11-16—will likely produce substantial insurance claims, catastrophe modeling firm Karen ...
New EU Data Protection Law May Lead to Diminished Underwriting Quality: A.M. Best
Complying with the European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation is leading insurers and reinsurers to dilute the types of data they gather—something that could diminish underwriting ...
American Drivers Increasingly Fearful of Self-Driving Vehicles: AAA Study
Three-quarters (73 percent) of American drivers now say they would be too afraid to ride in a fully self-driving vehicle, up significantly from 63 percent in late 2017. Additionally, 63 percent of ...
Executives On The Move at Zurich North America and Erie Insurance
An executive who was previously based at XL Catlin and AIG is joining Zurich North America in a leadership role. Erie Insurance promoted a veteran employee to vice president of property and ...