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North Carolina Buildings Sustained $1.5B in Hurricane Matthew Damage
North Carolina emergency officials have estimated that the destructive and deadly Hurricane Matthew caused $1.5 billion worth of damage to more than 100,000 homes, businesses and government buildings ...
The Latest Launches From XL Catlin, AXIS and Take1 Insurance
XL Catlin added cyber insurance as optional coverage in its professional liability cover for design professionals. AXIS Capital Holdings will start offering U.S. customers cybersecurity ratings data ...
Berkshire Hathaway’s Gen Re Promotes Brogan to Lead Aircraft Risk Unit
Gen Re promoted John Brogan to chief executive officer of an aviation unit as the reinsurer at Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. phases in a new generation of leadership. Brogan replaces David ...
Hurricane Nicole Hits Bermuda, Barely a Week After Matthew Went Away
Hurricane Nicole made landfall in Bermuda on Oct. 13 as a Category 3 storm, less than a week after Hurricane Matthew plowed through the island nation and Haiti before slamming into the U.S. Southeast ...
AIG CEO Peter Hancock’s Innovation Sources: Nobel Prize Winners, Client Councils and More
Here's an innovation you may not have heard about in the insurance world: client councils. AIG President and CEO Peter Hancock said that his company forms and hosts client councils in order to ...
British Government’s Planned Brexit Trigger is Unconstitutional Power Grab: Attorney
Lawyers seeking to force the government to hold a Parliamentary vote on whether to leave the European Union told a panel of three senior judges that Prime Minister Theresa May's bid to trigger Brexit ...
Millions of North Carolina Chickens Killed in Hurricane Matthew Floods
Flooding from Hurricane Matthew has killed up to 5 million poultry birds in North Carolina, most of them chickens, the state's top environmental official said on Wednesday, hurting a major ...
Swiss Re, Brazilian Conglomerate to Launch Commercial Large-Risk Insurer
Swiss Re Group and a South American conglomerate are jointly launching a commercial large-risk insurer in Brazil, and the reinsurer plans to own a majority stake. The actual partnership, which goes ...