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Progressive Gives Google Home Customers Chance to Get Auto/Home Tips Through Their Voices
Progressive is getting into the voice-activated customer service game through a new deal with Google. The property/casualty insurance giant says it is now giving Google Home customers the opportunity ...
NICB Experiment: Using Highway Billboards to Combat and Reduce Auto Theft
You know those digital billboards along major highways? An insurance industry group is using ones along Albuquerque freeways as part of a public awareness campaign designed to reduce local automobile ...
Another Record Year Likely for U.S. Tornadoes as Thunderstorms Threaten
Another wave of tornado-spawning thunderstorms is set to rip across the Great Plains and South this week, putting the U.S. within reach of a record year for life-threatening twisters. Severe storms ...
The Latest Launches From Chubb, Liberty Mutual, Neon and More
Liberty Mutual now offers builder's risk coverage for large contractors, property owners and their brokers. AIG is drumming up interest for a new auto insurance telematics device with a safe driver ...
PwC Settles Negligence Lawsuit Over MF Global’s 2011 Collapse
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP has settled a $3 billion negligence lawsuit over the October 2011 collapse of MF Global Holdings Ltd, the futures and commodities brokerage once run by former New Jersey ...
For Insurers, Thunderstorm and Hurricane Losses Leave Equal Financial Impact
Risk to U.S. property from thunderstorms is as high as from hurricanes, according to new research finding that for the past decade, severe convective storms have been the largest annual aggregated ...
P/C Insurers, Reinsurers, Saw 2016 North America Operating Earnings Decline
Property/casualty insurer and reinsurer operating earnings in North America dipped in 2016, hammered by factors including higher catastrophe losses, low investment yields and underwriting ...
Executives On The Move at XL Catlin, CNO Financial and RLI
XL Catlin promoted an executive to lead an important part of its Excess & Surplus insurance arm. CNO Financial Group made a number of executive changes within its organization. RLI Corp. promoted ...