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SoftBank CEO Son Follows Warren Buffett’s Example in Proposed Swiss Re Investment
Masayoshi Son, SoftBank Group Corp.'s billionaire founder and CEO, is taking a step toward becoming a digital-age Warren Buffett. SoftBank has entered talks to buy as much as a third of reinsurer ...
AIG Reports $6.7B Loss Attributed to Catastrophes and Tax Reform
American International Group Inc posted a $6.7 billion fourth-quarter loss on Thursday as the U.S. insurer booked a big charge related to U.S. tax reform and losses from global catastrophes. ...
Allstate’s Q4 Excelled With Underwriting, Investment Income and Tax Cut Gains
The Allstate Corp., like many carriers, faced an enormous hit from natural catastrophe losses in the 2017 fourth quarter. Investment returns soared by double digits, however, and the Trump tax cuts ...
U.S. Drought Footprint in January Reached Largest Levels Since 2014
In January, the East was cold, the West was warm and drought reached its largest extent since 2014, the National Centers for Environmental Information said Wednesday. The average temperature across ...
Sapiens Boosts North American Market Share With Adaptik Acquisition
Sapiens International Corp. has agreed to snatch up Adaptik, a rival insurance software company focused on policy administration and billing. The move is expected to help the Israeli company boost ...
U.S. P/C Industry 2017 Underwriting Loss Even Worse Than 2016: A.M. Best
The U.S. property/casualty insurance industry will likely post a second consecutive year of underwriting losses for 2017, and it will be much worse than the year before, according to a new A.M. Best ...
U.S. Treasury Security Mnuchin Seeks Answers From Consumer Bureau on Equifax Breach
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday said he wants to know how the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is handling a probe into a hack of credit bureau Equifax Inc after a report that ...
Insurers Can Take on Coverage Gaps as Disaster Costs and Frequency Rise
Although clear challenges can come with the increasing cost and frequency of global natural disasters, there could also be untapped opportunity for insurers to tackle coverage gaps, according to ...