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AXIS Capital 2021: A Year of Repositioning
The word of the hour was "repositioning" during the earnings conference call for AXIS Capital last week, with the company reporting its bottom line in the black in 2021, following a net loss in 2020. ...
RLI: 26 Straight Years of Underwriting Profit
RLI's 2021 fourth-quarter represented Chairman Jon Michael's last quarter at the helm of the specialty insurer as chief executive officer. Craig Kliethermes, who took the reins as president and CEO ...
InsurTech Descartes Underwriting Raises $120M to Expand Parametric Product Offering
Descartes Underwriting, the InsurTech company that specializes in parametric natural catastrophe products, has announced a $120 million Series B funding round. Growth equity firm Highland Europe is ...
Florida Senator Tries Cat Fund Changes to Cut Cost of Property Insurance
Seeing no action on bills that would address Florida's spiraling property insurance problems head-on, one state senator took a different route Thursday and proposed reducing insurers' payments to the ...
Crop Insurance Payouts Have Risen Sharply Due to Droughts, Floods
Insurance payments to U.S. farmers for crops lost to droughts and flooding have risen more than threefold over the past 25 years, according to an analysis of federal data by the Environmental Working ...
The Latest Launches From WTW, Colonial Surety, Archipelago
WTW formed its CyberCrime task force within its financial, executive and professional risks (FINEX) global practice. The CyberCrime task force is dedicated to understanding the intricacies of cyber ...Resilience Creates Captive Reinsurance Company
Cyber insurance and security provider Resilience Cyber Insurance Solutions announced that it has created a captive reinsurance company. Through the captive, Resilience will retain a share of each ...
Executives on the Move at Buckle, SiriusPoint, Corvus
Buckle, an InsurTech with a full-stack insurance-as-a-service platform for the gig economy, has announced three key leadership changes: Pedram Afshar has been named chief credit officer. He was ...