Specialty
Hudson Insurance Acquires Surety Business Portfolio
Hudson Insurance Group has acquired the underwriting operations of Surety Partners of America, Northeast. As part of the transaction, Michael Blount and James Balzan will join the team at Hudson ...
Liberty Mutual Discloses Major Q3 Gains
Liberty Mutual Holding Company concluded its 2014 third quarter with another jump in net income, higher revenues, a new reinsurance agreement and more than $1 billion in debt raised to help ...
Allied World Makes Buy in Bid to Boost Its Specialty Coverage
Allied World Assurance Company Holdings is making an acquisition designed to boost its specialty coverage business involving trade credit and political risk. The Swiss property/casualty and specialty ...
Cyber Attacks Hit Catalan Govt. Computers During Independence Vote
Catalan government computer systems were attacked by professional-style hackers during the disputed independence vote on Nov. 9, putting basic services at risk, Regional President Artur Mas said. The ...
An Arctic Blast Returns the P/C Industry to Winter Cat Risks
An arctic blast began to dump heavy snow in parts of the northern Rockies, Plains and the Great Lakes regions on Monday and meteorologists said temperatures are expected to plummet throughout the ...
Hiscox Reinsurance Portfolio Plunges by Double Digits
Hiscox Ltd. gives a sobering example of how damaging the ever-softening reinsurance market has become. The Lloyd's of London specialist insurer said it has experienced double-digit drops in its ...
The Wealthy Take a Risk on Post-Hurricane Sandy Jersey Shore
When Hurricane Sandy roared through New Jersey two years ago, it not only tore up the shoreline. It also pushed out much of the middle class. From Ocean City to Toms River, one-story cottages and ...
P/C Profits Nearly Quadruple for Berkshire in Q3; Premiums Climb 50%
While investment losses pulled net income for Warren Buffett's Berkshire-Hathaway down 8.6 percent to $3.6 billion in third-quarter 2014, a 40 percent jump in operating income for the group's ...