Personal Lines
U.S. Carriers Must Adapt to Creeping Demographic Changes: Conning
Future customers for U.S. personal lines insurers are shaping up to be starkly different, demographically speaking, than they have been previously, Conning asserts in a new report. With this in mind, ...
Munich Re, Hartford Steam Boiler and CNA Launch New Products
There's a new app out from Munich Re's U.S. arm that helps homeowners make their home more resilient to severe weather events. The reinsurer's Hartford Steam Boiler recently launched personal lines ...
Executives On The Move at XL Catlin, Starr Companies, JLT Re and More
XL Catlin tapped a former AIG executive to lead its new division focused on global mergers and acquisitions. Starr Companies hired a new person to lead its Financial Lines arm. JLT Re named a Guy ...
AIR Worldwide Introduces Earthquake Model for India
Catastrophe risk modeler AIR Worldwide, a Verisk Analytics business, has released a new earthquake model for India that estimates losses to residential, commercial and small industrial buildings as ...
National General to Pay $165M for Regional Auto Insurer Direct General
National General Holdings Corp. will pay $165 million for a Tennessee-based property/casualty insurer focused on nonstandard auto business. The New York City-based specialty insurance holding company ...
PCI Urges Consideration of Firefighting Funding Reform Bill
The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America is throwing its support behind a bill first proposed in 2015 that would make supplemental federal funding to fight wildfires a more flexible and ...
Brexit Vote Fallout Will Not Be Solved Quickly
To leave, or not to leave: That is the question. Still. After Britain's historic vote to leave the European Union, there is no indication that a so-called Brexit will happen soon. It maybe never ...
Analyzing J.D. Power Ratings: How National, Regional Auto Insurers Stack Up
An auto insurance carrier has to work a lot harder to please customers in New England and California than in other parts of the United States, according to a recently published survey. The J.D. Power ...