Industry News
Wholesale Insurance Broker Amwins to Snatch Up Rival Worldwide Facilities
The largest wholesale insurance broker, Amwins Group, is getting even larger as it has agreed to acquire Worldwide Facilities, the fourth-largest wholesale insurance broker in the U.S. The addition ...
Personal Auto Insurance Profits Unsustainable, Fitch Says
Highly profitable sub-90 personal auto combined ratios recorded by 10 publicly traded property/casualty insurers in 2020 don't look anything like the 106 recorded in 2016. But they're headed in that ...
After Pandemic Legal Tussles, Insurers Rewrite Business Policies
U.S. insurers are strengthening language in policies that cover business losses to protect them from future claims related to the coronavirus pandemic or other widespread illnesses that disrupt ...
Executives On The Move at Zurich Insurance and Aon
Zurich Insurance promoted its chief underwriting officer to the role of CEO for its Commercial Insurance division. An Allied World veteran is joining Aon plc as Head of Casualty in its Reinsurance ...
First Anniversary of COVID-19 Shutdown Orders Could Spur New Wave of Lawsuits
The upcoming anniversary of COVID-19 shutdown orders may reveal whether a significant number of policyholders have been waiting on the sidelines before suing their insurers for business-interruption ...
Generali CEO Donnet: Insurers Can’t Handle Pandemic Risk on Their Own
Europe's insurance industry doesn't have the capacity to deal with the systemic risk of a pandemic and more protection needs to be put in place through private-public partnerships, the head of ...
Hippo to Go Public Through Reverse Merger Valuing Company at $5B
Hippo has become the latest InsurTech with plans to go public through a reverse merger transaction with a Special Purpose Acquisition Company. The startup – an MGA focused on digital homeowners ...
Progressive’s ‘Apron Relief’ Continues; Snapshot 30-Day Monitoring Available
While Progressive gave back more than $1 billion of premiums last year, and lowered rates in recognition pandemic-related reductions in driving activity, the insurer is offering more potential ...