Personal Lines
Making Renters Insurance Something Millennials Can Tweet About
One of the hottest markets in insurance right now is renters insurance. While only 31 percent of renters currently have insurance, the industry is expecting big changes to happen shortly. According ...
Shared Capital Impacting Insurance Industry: Berkley
The U.S. economy is evolving in many ways, most significantly when it comes to both the cost of capital and the ownership of capital, and that change in capital ownership is a challenge for the ...
Progressive CEO Tackles Aggregator Question in Advance of Google Launch
While the chief executive officer of Progressive didn't rule out the possibility of ever partnering with an aggregator website, Glenn Renwick highlighted the virtues of going it alone in the direct ...
ACUITY Ranks No. 3 on Fortune List of 100 Best Companies to Work For
Wisconsin-based property/casualty insurer ACUITY made Fortune magazine's new list of the 100 best companies to work for, coming in third place. Fortune notes that ACUITY, the 62nd-largest ...
Marrying Cars and Smartphones: Qualcomm Technology Could Assist Insurers
Qualcomm Inc., a maker of smartphone chips and software, recently unveiled fourth-generation LTE modems that will enable cars to stay better-connected wirelessly to cloud-based services via the Web. ...
Two Verisk Divisions Address Cyber and Hail Risks With New Products
Hail and cyber attacks are two of the bigger property/casualty risks, one long-standing and the other, a fast-evolving problem. Two Verisk Analytics subsidiaries have rolled out new products designed ...
Ex-White Mountains CEO Gains New Director Role at Third Point Re
Steven Fass, a former CEO of White Mountains Insurance Group and a 39-year insurance veteran, has been named Lead Independent Director at Third Point Reinsurance. Third Point Re created the position. ...
RMS Targets South Korea With Wide-Ranging Cat Flood Risk Catalog
RMS is rolling out a wide-ranging series of flood risk models for South Korea, the catastrophe modeling firm has disclosed. Known formally as the South Korea Probabilistic Flood Maps and Scenario ...