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Amazon Airdrops Popcorn in Drone Delivery Milestone
Retail giant Amazon.com Inc. has made its first drone delivery to an actual customer, dropping off a Fire TV device and a bag of popcorn to a house in the rural English countryside 13 minutes after ...
Execs On The Move at Chubb, XL Catlin, CNA and More
Chubb appointed a 25-year insurance veteran to lead Commercial Insurance operations in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. XL Catlin made key leadership appointments for its Reinsurance ...
NAIC Brings on Former Penn. Commissioner Consedine as New CEO
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners picked a former Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner as its new CEO. Michael Consedine, who will take on his new role in early 2017, said in ...
Zurich to Acquire Australian Travel Insurer Cover for $551M
Switzerland's Zurich Insurance Group has agreed to buy Australia's biggest travel insurance provider, Cover-More Group, for A$741 million ($551 million), stepping up its investment in the Australian ...
Price Declines Are Accelerating for D&O Coverage: Willis Towers Watson
Price decreases accelerated for directors and officers insurance in the 2016 third quarter, a period during which commercial insurance prices generally remained flat once again overall. The latest ...
La Niña Will Chill Northern U.S., Dry Out the South Through Winter
A La Nina that threatens to push cold temperatures across the northern U.S. and extend drought conditions in the south will probably remain in the Pacific deep into the winter, fading away by spring, ...
Insurability Challenges Hamper Cyber Market Development: Geneva Assoc. Report
While insurance against cyber risk represents a tremendous new business for the insurance industry, numerous problems with the insurability currently impede the development of the market," according ...
Carriers Can Avoid Some 2017 Uncertainty by Combating Cyber Risk, Embracing Innovation
Property/casualty face uncertainty about how they'll fare in 2017 for a variety of reasons, but there are four ways the sector can boost its odds for success, a new EY report argues. Insurers can ...