Specialty
Inflation Boosts W.R. Berkley Top Line to Record Level as Exposures Grow
While investment analysts continue to track commercial insurance rate hikes for property/casualty insurance carriers, exposure growth was an important contributor to a top-line record for the first ...
RLI Combined Ratio Dips Below 80 for First-Quarter 2022
A sub-100 combined ratio is what publicly traded property/casualty insurance carriers strive to report. The sub-90s combined ratios that many carriers reported in 2021 are even better. A sub-80? That ...
New Jersey Diocese Reaches $87.5M Settlement with Sex Abuse Claimants
The Catholic Diocese of Camden, N.J., and the committee representing about 300 survivors of clergy sexual abuse have reached an $87.5 million settlement that will establish a trust to compensate the ...
SCOR Warns of Ukraine Conflict Impact on Q1 2022 Results
In a media statement Friday, Paris-based SCOR said the company expects a first-quarter 2022 charge in the high double-digit EUR million range for potential claims related to the Russia-Ukraine ...
How Warren Buffett Does a Deal: Alleghany Merger Backstory
Berkshire Hathaway didn't require Alleghany to pay any breakup fee in the event another potential acquirer topped an $11.6 billion deal price that Warren Buffett offered to CEO Joseph Brandon in ...
AF Group to Purchase AmeriTrust
AF Group, a holding company whose affiliated brands provide specialty and workers compensation insurance across the U.S., has entered into a definitive agreement through its subsidiary Accident Fund ...
War With Russia Will Shrink Ukraine Economy 45%, Says World Bank
The World Bank says Ukraine's economy will shrink by 45.1 percent this year because of Russia's invasion, which has shut down half of the country's businesses, choked off imports and exports, and ...
Palisade Insurance Partners Launches Specialty MGU
Palisade Insurance Partners LLC, an independently operated specialty managing general underwriter (MGU), has launched to provide a range of contingent legal risk insurance and other specialty ...