Personal Lines
Updated: Venezuela Volatility Hurt Liberty Mutual’s Q3
Liberty Mutual Holding Company continued to deal with the volatile Venezuelan market during the 2015 third quarter, from which it is pulling back. It also faced some energy related losses during that ...
‘Monster’ El Nino Could Produce More and Stronger Events Over Next Decade
In Buffalo, it hasn't snowed yet this year. A Duluth, Minnesota, newspaper reported that the temperature was 40 degrees above zero, not below. And in Miami, beachgoers are staying indoors during ...
Peer-to-Peer Insurance Startup Attracts Funding from Silicon Valley’s Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital, a California venture firm better known for funding technology or industry game-changers including Apple, Cisco and YouTube, has put its money behind a property/casualty insurance ...
AIG Wants to Sell $750M Stake in Chinese P/C Insurer PICC
American International Group Inc., the insurer being pressured by activist investor Carl Icahn to boost returns, is seeking $750 million by selling shares in PICC Property & Casualty Co. after ...
Executives On The Move at Chubb, ACE and Everest Re
Chubb appointed a temporary chief operating officer. It's future, $28 billion merger partner ACE Ltd announced much of the combined companies' Canadian leadership team. Everest Re extended the ...
Warning to U.S. P/C Insurers: Be Ready for a Disruptive, Transformative 2016
U.S. property/casualty insurers should expect disruptive changes in a number of areas in 2016, including technology, pricing, customer demand, and "heightened regulatory creep," EY said in a new ...
Hurricane Stats Tallied as Atlantic Season Ends
While meteorologists were on target with their predictions of a below-normal Atlantic hurricane season, there was some activity to report, according to the Insurance Information Institute. I.I.I. ...
States Graded ‘A’ to ‘F’ for Weather Preparedness
Many states across the country are unprepared to face the risks posed extreme heat, drought, wildfires, inland flooding, coastal flooding and other extreme weather events, according to a new report ...