Specialty
Self-Driving Car Rollout Will Accelerate Under New U.S. Government Plan
Self-driving cars will get closer to appearing on American roads under a U.S. Transportation Department plan to speed their rollout. Regulators will allow automakers that can demonstrate they have a ...
Argo Group Fills Exec Slots With AIG Vet and Ex-Insurance Regulator
Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. has turned to an AIG veteran and a former New York insurance regulator to fill two key positions at the specialty insurer/reinsurer. Argo said Frank Mike-Mayer ...
Liberty Mutual Grows Chile Market Share with New Acquisition
With one acquisition, Liberty Mutual Insurance has become a dominant player in Chile, a decade after first entering the market there. The Massachusetts-based property/casualty insurer said it has ...
Ironshore Turns to Shanghai with Launch of Lloyd’s China Platform
Ironshore International, now fully owned by Chinese conglomerate Fosun International, is expanding into Shanghai via Lloyd's. The Bermuda-based specialty property/casualty insurer will be doing this ...
Underwriters Spooked by New China Rules for Botched IPOs
Newly approved Chinese rules for IPOs are rattling investment banks as investors can seek compensation immediately if they suffer losses due to false or misleading information in the listing ...
Uber Will Help California Ex-Felons Ready for Driver Jobs
Uber Technologies Inc. says it's trying to help people convicted of non-violent felonies in California get jobs as drivers. The company said Wednesday it's steering prospective drivers with felony ...
P/C Execs Predict Cyber Growth and a Democrat in the White House
Leaders of the property/casualty insurance industry expect 2016 to be a profitable year much like 2015 but do not see any increase in profitability this year for most lines of insurance, and they do ...
ACE and Chubb Set to Close Their Mega-Merger Deal
ACE Ltd. and Chubb were set to close their $29.7 billion merger agreement on Jan. 14 – a scant six months after the companies first announced their surprise deal. The Chubb name will represent the ...