Personal Lines
Executives On The Move at Validus and The Hartford
Validus Holdings Ltd. made a number of executive appointments following a reorganization into three major divisions. The Hartford named one of its executives to lead Personal Lines.
Paris Climate Change Pact Lives On Under Macron’s Leadership
French President Emmanuel Macron this week will seek to breathe new life into the fight against global warming and sway debate away from skeptics of the process led by U.S. President Donald Trump. At ...
Growth Ahead as State Auto Exits Specialty Biz
A complete digital transformation is taking shape at State Auto Insurance, where efforts to turn around several years of underwriting losses have also meant exits of certain part of the business. ...
Standing Up a New Insurance Carrier: Super Regional State Auto Goes Digital for Real
A lot of property/casualty insurers are talking about digital transformations these days but the change taking shape at a midsized super regional carrier in Columbus, Ohio is different from the rest, ...
Navigation Apps May be Steering L.A. Drivers Toward Fires
Navigation apps like Alphabet Inc.'s Waze, which can do wonders directing drivers through traffic, backfired for some motorists trying to maneuver around the wildfires that are raging across Southern ...
2018 Prediction: U.S. P/C Industry Will Take Time to Recover From 2017 Catastrophes
Property/casualty insurers in the U.S. will rebound in 2018 from the late-2017 onslaught of hurricanes and wildfires, but it will take a while to return to "significant underwriting profits," Fitch ...
Executives On The Move at Chubb, Aspen, Neon and Bold Penguin
Chubb is bringing on a new lobbyist. Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd. appointed a Group chief operating officer. Neon, a specialist Lloyd's insurer, hired a veteran industry executive to fill a ...
Wildfires Halt L.A. Filming, Threaten Crops, Hammer Major Utility’s Market Value
Wildfires raging across Southern California have shut a major commuter artery in Los Angeles, suspended filming, wiped out more than $3 billion of market value for regional utility Edison ...