Specialty
Executives On The Move at Markel and Marsh
Markel has a new person to leads the U.S Excess Casualty team of Markel Global Insurance. Marsh brought on an executive to run Marsh Sponsored Programs, a provider of insurance products for ...
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty Teams With InsurTech in Aircraft Insurance Partnership
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty teamed with InsurTech startup Visicover on a partnership to sell airplane insurance and related products. Neither side is disclosing financial terms. The ...
$22B in H1 Insured Losses Stem Largely From U.S. Storms: Impact Forecasting
Insured losses for natural disaster totaled $22 billion during the first six months of 2017, with the cost stemming in large part from U.S.-focused, hail, heavy winds and tornadoes. Aon Benfield's ...
Starr Becomes Minority Shareholder in Small Business InsurTech CoverWallet
Starr Companies is now a minority shareholder in online small business insurance agency CoverWallet. CoverWallet confirmed the deal that was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. No financial ...
Allianz, GM, BMW, Toyota Invest in Self-Driving Software Startup Nauto
General Motors Co and Japan's Softbank Group Corp are among the latest investors in Nauto, a Silicon Valley startup developing software for self-driving vehicles. Nauto, based in Palo Alto, said on ...
States Couldn’t Impose Driverless Car Rules Under House Panel-Approved Proposal
A U.S. House panel on Wednesday approved a sweeping proposal by voice vote to allow automakers to deploy up to 100,000 self-driving vehicles without meeting existing auto safety standards and bar ...
Executives On The Move at AmTrust, Chubb, Neon and GCube
AmTrust Financial Services hired an executive to handle business strategy and business development. Chubb has a new Life Sciences Industry practice leader for North America. Neon named a new director ...
Brexit Moves Likely After Year-End, UK Financial Watchdog Predicts
Financial firms are waiting until the end of the year before moving staff and business ahead of Britain's departure from the European Union in 2019, the country's markets watchdog said. Banks, asset ...