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Generali Seals $1.4B Deal to Grab Italian Rival Cattolica
Italy's top insurer Generali sealed its 1.17 billion euro ($1.36 billion) takeover of smaller rival Cattolica on Friday in a move aimed at cementing its domestic market leadership. On the last day of ...
U.S. Insurers Hear Demands to Use Social and Environmental Issues in Decision-Making
U.S. insurers are increasingly listening to demands from stakeholders that they use social and environmental factors in their decision-making, according to a new AM Best survey. The ratings entity ...
Chubb CEO Greenberg: More Than Climate Change Drives Climb in Natural Catastrophe Insured Losses
Chubb, like all P/C insurers, is seeing regular spikes in commercial and personal property insured losses due to increasingly costly natural catastrophes. Chubb Chairman and CEO Evan Greenberg said ...
AXA Will Tighten Policy for Insuring, Investing in Oil and Gas Sector
AXA, France's biggest insurer, said on Friday it would tighten its policy regarding investing in and insuring the oil and gas sector, as pressure builds on finance to help curtail new production. The ...
Undaunted by COVID-19, P/C Insurers and Startups Embraced Innovation Instead
As the CEO and co-founder of digital MGA Koffie Labs, Ian White was initially New York-based. Then the coronavirus pandemic struck, spurring a creative rethinking about what a corporate headquarters ...
Chubb CEO Greenberg Acknowledges Hiring Challenges in Era of Post-COVID Job Turmoil
The coronavirus pandemic is driving millions of Americans to retire early or quit their jobs in a reassessment of their lives, leaving corporate America struggling to fill open positions. Chubb ...
Global InsurTech Investment Hits Record $10B Through September
Global investment in insurance technology (InsurTech) start-ups totalled $10.5 billion in the first nine months of 2021, a record high level for the period, reinsurance broker Willis Re said on ...
Global Average Annual Disaster Losses Could Surpass $200B in 10 Years: AIR Worldwide
The global insurance industry can currently expect a long-run annual average loss of $106 billion and a greater than a 40 percent chance of experiencing an annual loss of more than $200 billion in ...