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U.S. P/C Insurers Enjoyed Underwriting, Surplus Gains in First 9 Months of 2019
The private U.S. property/casualty insurance industry saw its net underwriting gains increase to $5.4 billion in the first nine months of 2019 from $4.7 billion a year earlier, bolstered by growth in ...
Japanese Firms Rely Largely on Insurance in Plans for Increasing Floods
Japanese companies have contingency plans for the floods that increasingly drench this island nation, but most have done little to fortify facilities, relying instead on insurance and securing ...
Ongoing Improvement, Empowerment Help Create an Outstanding Customer Service Culture
Great leaders seeking to develop outstanding customer service at their companies can get there by committing to an office culture that celebrates ongoing improvement and empowered employees. A recent ...
World Economic Forum Warns Long-Term Risks Are Environmental
The World Economic Forum is sounding alarm bells on climate change, with environmental risks occupying the group's top five long-term concerns for the first time on record. Extreme weather events, ...
A Breakdown of How the U.S.-China Trade Agreement Addresses Insurance
President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed an economic and trade agreement that promises to increase the agricultural and other goods and services China will buy from the U.S. by ...
Planned Opening of China’s Insurance Sector to U.S. Firms Causes Confusion
A trade pact opening up China's insurance sector to U.S. firms has caused confusion among lawyers in the Asian nation. China pledged to remove the foreign-equity cap for the life, pension and ...
Cyber Ranks as Top Peril for Companies Globally for 1st Time: Allianz Survey
Cyber incidents rank for the first time as the most important business risk globally, pushing the perennial top peril, business interruption (BI), into second place, according to the Allianz Risk ...
Storms, Political Unrest Drove Chubb’s $430M in Q4 Pre-Tax Cat Losses
Chubb said that severe weather events in Texas, California and Japan helped produce an estimated $430 million in pre-tax catastrophe losses for the 2019 fourth quarter. That number breaks down to ...