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State Auto, Soon to Be Acquired by Liberty Mutual, Reports Q2 Decline in Net Income
State Auto Financial Corp., soon to be acquired by Liberty Mutual for $1 billion, saw a large Q2 decline in net income due to a dip in net investment gains and as well as natural catastrophe losses. ...
Competitors Poached Talent as Aon/WTW Merger Plans Grew Uncertain
While Aon and Willis Towers Watson were trying for many months to land their merger, their competitors were able lure away some of their producer talent – capitalizing on the "distraction and ...
Updated: Moody’s to Pay $2B for Daily Mail’s RMS Cat Modeling Unit
The publisher of Britain's Daily Mail said on Thursday it had agreed to sell its insurance risk business RMS to Moody's Corporation for about 1.425 billion pounds ($1.99 billion) in cash. Chief ...
Zurich Insurance, Metromile Disclose Their Post-COVID Return-to-Office Plans
Zurich Insurance and Metromile are among a number of industry companies that have plotted post- COVID returns to the office. Like the others who have recently disclosed their plans, they are doing so ...
While Funding Levels Rise, So Do InsurTech Death Rates
While the aggregate InsurTech funding level for the first-half of 2021 soared past the amount raised for InsurTech businesses for the entire year 2020, InsurTechs continued to quietly shut their ...
Class Action Targets Insurance Broker Gallagher Over Ransomware Attack
Insurance and benefits broker Arthur J. Gallagher is the target of a proposed class action lawsuit over a ransomware attack it suffered in 2020. The plaintiffs allege that Gallagher failed to follow ...
Are Reserve Releases Ahead? Appellate Ct. Ruling Seen Slowing COVID Suits
A federal appellate court ruling that dismissed a dental practice's COVID-19 business interruption claim might be the beginning of the end for policyholder arguments that income lost because of ...
Amid Hot Real Estate Market, InsurTech Hippo Eyes a Cool $638M Listing Today
Hippo Enterprises Inc. wants to change homeowners' insurance by using customer data to make it faster and easier to get coverage, Hippo's chief executive said in an interview. The company, which has ...