Personal Lines
Report: China’s Anbang Insurance Mulling a $2B IPO
Anbang Insurance Group Co., the Chinese insurer buying New York's Waldorf Astoria hotel, is planning an initial public offering that could raise about $2 billion, people with knowledge of the matter ...
Liberty Mutual Discloses Major Q3 Gains
Liberty Mutual Holding Company concluded its 2014 third quarter with another jump in net income, higher revenues, a new reinsurance agreement and more than $1 billion in debt raised to help ...
General Motors Dogged By More Ignition Switch Injury Claims
A program to compensate the victims of a faulty ignition switch in General Motors Co vehicles found last week that the part was linked to two additional deaths and four injuries, bringing the total ...
An Arctic Blast Returns the P/C Industry to Winter Cat Risks
An arctic blast began to dump heavy snow in parts of the northern Rockies, Plains and the Great Lakes regions on Monday and meteorologists said temperatures are expected to plummet throughout the ...
The Hanover Picks Lavey As Its New Head of Personal Lines
The Hanover Insurance Group has a new president in charge of personal lines coverage. He's a veteran executive of the Massachusetts-based U.S. property/casualty insurer who initially came on board a ...
The Wealthy Take a Risk on Post-Hurricane Sandy Jersey Shore
When Hurricane Sandy roared through New Jersey two years ago, it not only tore up the shoreline. It also pushed out much of the middle class. From Ocean City to Toms River, one-story cottages and ...
P/C Profits Nearly Quadruple for Berkshire in Q3; Premiums Climb 50%
While investment losses pulled net income for Warren Buffett's Berkshire-Hathaway down 8.6 percent to $3.6 billion in third-quarter 2014, a 40 percent jump in operating income for the group's ...
Home Depot Also Admits Hacker Theft of 53 Million E-Mail Addresses
Home Depot Inc., which suffered a data breach between April and September, said 53 million e-mail addresses were taken by hackers during the attack, in addition to the 56 million payment cards that ...