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GEICO, The Hartford, Farmers, Erie Insurance Among Additional Carriers Pursuing Customer Coronavirus Relief
A new round of insurers has implemented auto insurance rebates, premium reductions, donations and other measures to help customers impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. Their actions follow earlier, ...
Italy’s Generali Plans Staggered Dividend Payout Despite Regulator Resistence
Italy's biggest insurer Generali on Friday said it would pay its 2019 dividend in two tranches, confirming a total payout of 0.96 euros per share, citing its strong capital position. The announcement ...
Claims Professionals Adjust to a Landscape Changed by Coronavirus Pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic has not shut down the day-to-day business of adjusting claims, but the workload is lighter and claims managers are coping with evolving government regulations and guidelines. ...
P/C Insurance Industry Is Least Affected by Coronavirus Pandemic: Standard & Poor’s
P/C insurance is the least-impacted industry by the coronavirus pandemic, at least so far, according to an analysis from S&P Global Market Intelligence. S&P compiled its analysis for March, ...
InsurTechs Focused on Structural Data, Vehicle Title Digitization Attract Financing
An American Family spinout raised $8 million in Series A financing that will help expand the reach of its residential and commercial property characteristic data and predictive analysis products. ...
Weather Risks Could Become Uninsurable Without Acting on Climate Change: Swiss Re
Global warming will lead to growing intensity and frequency of severe weather events, rising losses, as well as greater uncertainty in the assessment of these events by the insurance industry, which ...
UK Insurers Cancel More Than $1.2B in Dividends Over Coronavirus Worries
British insurers canceled more than 1 billion pounds ($1.2 billion) of dividends on Wednesday, in moves welcomed by the Bank of England which had cautioned the sector about the risk of heavy costs ...
Coronavirus Fallout Leads to A.M. Best Outlook Downgrade for U.S. Commercial Insurers
U.S. commercial lines insurers must now carry an outlook downgrade from A.M. Best due to fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. The decision by A.M. Best to revise its outlook for the segment to ...