Specialty
Hedge Fund Makes $3B From Bet on Wildfire Insurance Claims
Baupost Group, the hedge fund run by Seth Klarman, received more than $3 billion in July from its bet on insurance claims against PG&E Corp. connected to a series of deadly California wildfires, ...
Pandemic Accelerating Volatile 2020 Political Risk Landscape: Marsh JLT Specialty
The global COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated an "already volatile political risk landscape," according to a midyear update to Marsh JLT Specialty's Political Risk Map 2020. In fact, all 197 countries ...
Marco Capital Will Pursue European P/C Runoff Opportunities
Newly-launched Marco Capital Holdings Limited plans to pursue property/casualty insurance run-off opportunities in Continental Europe, the UK and Lloyd's of London. Marco enters the European run-off ...
Executives On The Move at Hamilton, BHSI and CopperPoint
Hamilton Insurance Group hired an executive to lead development of its mergers and acquisitions division in North America and Latin America. Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance named a new Head of ...
Post-Brexit Negotiations Between Britain, EU Hit Stalemate
Britain and the European Union made scant progress towards a deal on future ties in talks last week, and their chief negotiators blamed each other for the stalemate as time ticks down to an ...
Executives On The Move at QBE and Markel
QBE named a new executive to be head of Global Credit & Surety for its North America insurance division. Markel appointed a new member of its board of directors. *** QBE named Harpreet Mann as ...
S&P Points to an Improving Lloyd’s Market Despite Pandemic Challenges
The Lloyd's market looks unlikely to turn an underwriting profit in 2020 given the pandemic and hurricane season. However, there a signs of improvement, according to analysts at S&P Global ...
COVID-19 Era Draws Attention to U.S. Fund That Compensates Emergency Vaccine Injuries
A U.S. government program that compensates people who say they have been harmed by an emergency vaccine has paid out on fewer than 10% of claims, raising questions whether the process should be used ...