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Executives on the Move at AXA XL, Guy Carpenter, AIG
AXA XL has appointed Lucy Pilko as CEO for the Americas region of its insurance operations, effective Oct. 30, 2023. She assumes the role from Joseph Tocco, who has decided to retire after more than ...
Top 15 E&S Writers: Lloyd’s, Berkshire Still Lead as All Major Players Grow
The U.S. excess and surplus lines market reported double-digit growth for the fifth straight year in 2022,with second-ranked Berkshire Hathaway pushing the total growth figure for the E&S market ...
S&P Raises Reinsurance Sector View to Stable as Rates Keep Rising
S&P Global has raised its view of the global reinsurance sector to stable from negative, it said on Tuesday, due to higher reinsurance rates and increasing investment income, while rival Moody's ...
Billion-Dollar Satellite Risks Upending Space Insurance
Viasat Inc. has more than $1 billion of orbiting satellites in trouble, and space insurers are girding for market-rattling claims. The company's roughly $1 billion ViaSat-3 Americas satellite, ...
Deepfake Imposter Scams Are Driving a New Wave of Fraud
Computer-generated children's voices so realistic they fool their own parents. Masks created with photos from social media that can penetrate a system protected by face ID. They sound like the stuff ...
Tech Bytes: New Partnerships at One Concern, Cover Whale
One Concern, an AI physical risk company, and Swiss Re, a global reinsurance leader, announced a strategic partnership that aims to enhance the underwriting and management of natural catastrophe ...
Florida’s Gulf Coast Begins Cleanup From Hurricane Idalia
Cleanup and recovery from Hurricane Idalia began on Thursday along Florida's Gulf Coast, where property damage, loss of life and power disruptions paled in comparison to the last major hurricane that ...
Idalia Rumbled Ashore as Cat 3, Lashing Tallahassee and Much of Florida and Georgia
Just when parts of the property-casualty industry thought it was safe to re-enter the Florida market, Hurricane Idalia made landfall closer to the heavily populated Tallahassee area than expected and ...