Industry News
Allstate Handled $262M in Pre-Tax Cat Losses for July
The Allstate Corp. said it booked $262 million in estimated pre-tax catastrophe losses for July. Losses stemmed from 15 events. Two severe hail events in Colorado and other states plus the Carr Fire ...
Global Insured Catastrophe Losses Improve in H1: Swiss Re
Global insured losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters during the first half of 2018 were $20 billion, down from $30 billion in H1 2017, according to Swiss Re Institute's latest sigma ...
Execs See AI as Reshaping Finance But Disagree on What It Is
Global financial leaders are convinced artificial intelligence is poised to reshape their industry, and they're ready to invest big. They just can't agree on what it is. The World Economic Forum ...
Amazon Reportedly Considering UK Insurance Comparison Site
Amazon.com Inc. is sounding out some of Europe's top insurance firms to see if they would contribute products to a UK price comparison website in what would be a major foray by the U.S. online retail ...
Liberty Mutual’s Safeco Will Assume QBE North America’s Personal Insurance Business
QBE North America will transfer its North America personal insurance policies sold through independent agents to Safeco Insurance, leaving the specialist insurer to focus on its core commercial ...
Executives On The Move at Slice Labs, AXIS Capital Holdings and Sompo International
Startup Slice Labs is bringing on a chief growth officer. AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. appointed a former Partner Re executive to a newly created executive position. An ex-Swiss Re executive is joining ...
The Latest Launches From Marsh and AmWINS
Marsh debuted a new insurance product designed to help small and midsize law firms in England and Wales manage their professional indemnity risks. The insurance wholesale brokerage AmWINS Group ...
W.R Berkley, Travelers, GEICO Among 12 New Members of The Institutes RiskBlock Alliance
Twelve more companies have joined The Institutes RiskBlock Alliance, which is billed as the risk management and insurance industry's first enterprise-level blockchain consortium. The membership level ...