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Shareholder Meetings More Receptive These Days to Climate Change Agenda
Climate activists found companies more receptive to steps like cutting emissions or buying clean power this year, a new tally of shareholder resolutions shows, a trend proponents said undercuts the ...
California Creates $21B Fund for Utilities to Cover Future Fire Liabilities
For a leader with grand ambitions of tackling big issues from health care to taking on President Donald Trump, California Governor Gavin Newsom has spent much of his first six months in office bogged ...
European Storms Took Economic, Insurance Toll in June: Aon
Severe European storms during June had an economic price tag of $2 billion, while insurers anticipated claims topping $1.5 billion, according to the latest edition of Aon's monthly Global Catastrophe ...
Swiss Re, Citing Weak Demand, Suspends IPO of ReAssure Unit
Swiss Re AG said it suspended the initial public offering of ReAssure Group Plc, as a plan that would have put a value of as much as $4.1 billion on the U.K. unit fizzled due to weak investor demand. ...
Louisiana Is at Risk From Heavy Rain and Possibly Hurricane Barry
A gathering storm in the Gulf of Mexico that's already flooding New Orleans could grow into a hurricane before slamming into Louisiana this week, drenching the region with as much as a foot of rain. ...
Expertise and Investment: What Munich Re Digital Partners Brings to InsurTech Partnerships
Three years may not be a long time, but the head of Munich Re Digitial Partners in North America says his operation has made the most of it. David Brune became CEO of Digital Partners' North American ...
Startup Focused on Digital Customer Interactions for Insurers and Others Raises $14.5M
A startup focused on developing a platform guiding digital customer interactions for insurers and other businesses has raised $14.5 million in new financing. Lightico said that Mangrove Capital ...
Executives On The Move at The Hartford and W.R. Berkley
The Hartford named a long-time executive with the company to lead its Middle and Large Commercial insurance business in the Northeast. An executive previously with The Navigators Group is joining ...