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Lemonade CEO Schreiber Addresses 2020 Plans, Leadership and Hammocks
For Lemonade, 2019 was a banner year. The InsurTech, which launched in New York in 2016, attracted a $300 million financing round, bringing its total cash haul to nearly half a billion dollars. The ...
EU Bank Official Wants Post-Brexit Trade Deal to Cover Financial Services
European Central Bank policy maker Klaas Knot said that having "a deep and comprehensive trade deal" that covers financial services would be preferable as the U.K. prepares to the leave the European ...
Insurance Technology Company Sapiens Will Pay $31.6M for German InsurTech
Sapiens plans to pay up to $31.6 million for sum.cumo, an InsurTech based in Germany that provides technology and consulting services to the insurance sector and other customers. Both sides expect to ...
British Regulator Warns Commercial Insurance Bosses to Stamp Out Bad Office Behavior
Britain's markets watchdog has told the bosses of commercial insurance companies to stamp out bad behavior in the industry and improve diversity, or risk losing their jobs. The warning follows last ...
Philadelphia Insurance Companies CEO O’Leary Named Chairman; Glomb Becomes President
Philadelphia Insurance Companies has a new chairman and president. The Pennsylvania-based commercial property/casualty and professional liability insurance company said that its current president and ...
27 Carriers in Play With $1.3B FEMA Flood Program Reinsurance Renewal
The Federal Emergency Management Agency reported its 2020 traditional reinsurance placement for the National Flood Insurance Program, a transaction in which 27 private reinsurers assumed $1.33 ...
Tokio Marine Commits $374M for Insurance Joint Venture With Brazil’s Caixa Bank
Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. said it will pay $374 million to form a joint venture to sell mortgage and homeowners insurance for Caixa Econômica Federal, the Brazilian state-owned bank. Caixa's ...
Executives On The Move at W.R. Berkley, BHSI and Guy Carpenter
W.R. Berkley Corp. appointed an executive to run a subsidiary focused on workers compensation. Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance promoted one of its executives to a leadership role focused on ...