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Nationwide Invests in Startup Focused on Streamlining Certificate of Insurance Issuance
Nationwide invested in an early-stage funding round for Certificial, an InsurTech with a platform focused on the real-time certificate of insurance issuance and compliance management. Certificial's ...
Wildfire Near Misses Spark Greater Push for Mitigation Efforts
As the Missionary Ridge Fire raged in 2002, the Valley Fire, a second fire, broke out and destroyed six homes within hours near the Falls Creek Ranch subdivision north of Durango, Colo. When ...
Argo Group, Joining Other Carriers, Ends Coverage of Canada’s Trans Mountain Pipeline
Lloyd's insurer Argo Group has decided to stop insuring Canada's Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline when its current insurance policy expires on Aug. 31, 2021, following similar moves by other ...
Climate Stress Test for Insurers and Banks Debuts at Bank of England
The Bank of England on Tuesday set out its first comprehensive stress test of the ability of the British financial system to cope with climate change, saying the results will not be used to determine ...
G-7 Agree On 15% Minimum Profits Tax To Curb Multinational Firm Tax Dodges
The Group of Seven wealthy democracies agreed Saturday to support a global minimum corporate tax of at least 15 percent in order to deter multinational companies from avoiding taxes by stashing ...
Insurers Get Low Grades on Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss Action
Most of the world's largest insurers are failing to adequately address systemic risks such as climate change and biodiversity loss, but a group of five U.S. insurers are some of those that rank the ...
Decades of Evidence Won’t Sway Climate Change Deniers: Study
Climate skeptics who aren't persuaded by the existing evidence from climate change are unlikely to change their minds for many years, according to a newly published quantitative study by a University ...
PG&E Must Fork Over $150M for Botched Blackouts and Recent Wildfires
Pacific Gas & Electric is getting hit with a nearly $150 million billion for neglect that caused Northern California wildfires during the past two years and mismanagement of blackouts designed to ...