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China Regulator Reportedly Probing Ping An Insurance’s Property Investments
China's banking and insurance sector regulator is probing Ping An Insurance Group Co of China Ltd's investments in the property market, two people with knowledge of the matter said, after the firm ...
Root Views Independent Agents as Consistent With Digital Growth Plans
Root is the latest InsurTech to acknowledge that digital insurance won't necessarily take over the industry, because independent agents remain a vital part of the sales and distribution of policies. ...
Microsoft Warns Thousands of Cloud Customers About Exposed Databases
Microsoft on Thursday warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world's largest companies, that intruders could have the ability to read, change or even delete their ...
New Product Alert: Cloud Outage Insurance, Amped-Up Specialty Insurance, Cyber Cover Twist
ELEMENT and Parametrix Insurance are partnering on parametric cloud outage insurance for companies in Germany. Mosaic Insurance and DXC Technology have launched an insurance technology platform that ...
6 U.S. States Fail to Join $26B Opioid Settlements With Distributors and J&J
At least six U.S. states, including Georgia, did not fully sign on to a proposed $26 billion settlement with three drug distributors and Johnson & Johnson , which have been accused of fueling the ...
InShare Raises $7.5M to Grow Insurance Products, Services for the Sharing Economy
InShare has pulled in $7.5 million in seed financing designed to help it expand. The Arizona-based InsurTech hopes to provide insurance products and services to Sharing Economy platforms across ...
Executives On The Move at BHSI, QBE and Zurich Insurance
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance added an executive to its leadership team in Europe. QBE International boosted its Latin America focus with executive additions to its regional team in Miami ...
Here’s What Travelers, Coalition and Others Pledged After the White House Cyber Meeting
Four insurance firms — Travelers, Coalition, Resilience Cyber Solutions and Vantage Group— were among the participants in the White House summit on cybersecurity along with giant technology firms ...