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InsurTech CyberCube Calls on Carriers to Set Global Cybersecurity Standards
CyberCube, an InsurTech focused on cyber risk analytics, is calling on the insurance industry to set global cybersecurity standards as the world digitizes. "Internet-connected technologies is a prime ...
Executives On The Move at Hamilton Insurance Group, Everest Re and Willis Re
Hamilton Insurance Group appointed a head of Property Reinsurance for its new U.S. reinsurance platform. Everest Re hired Artur Klinger as Managing Director of its Continental Europe business, to ...
Claims Are Rising as Australia’s Bushfire Cleanup Process Begins
The New South Wales and Victorian state governments will coordinate the clean-up of insured and uninsured residential and commercial properties destroyed in the deadly wildfires. Under the plan, the ...
Insurers, France Lead Way on Scoring Investment Portfolios’ Impacts on Climate Change
Move over revenue growth and dividend payouts: it's time to take your portfolio's temperature. Policymakers are pushing investors to do more to ensure their portfolio choices help to meet the 2015 ...
Kemper’s 2018 Infinity Acquisition Helps Lead to Fitch Ratings Upgrade
Kemper Corp.'s 2018 acquisition of specialty auto insurer Infinity Property and Casualty Corp. continues to reap dividends, this time in the form of a Fitch Ratings upgrade. Fitch said it upgraded ...
QBE North America Makes Castaldo CFO
QBE North America promoted Christopher Castaldo to become its new chief financial officer. Castaldo's new job will be subject to completion of various regulatory requirements. Plans call for him to ...
Liberty Mutual’s Irish Subsidiary Exits Three Lines of Business
Liberty Insurance, the Irish subsidiary of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, is exiting its commercial liability, commercial property and development bonds lines of business. Liberty will continue to ...
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 ...