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Wells Fargo Plan to Repay Customers Pushed Into Unnecessary Auto Insurance Reportedly Rejected by Regulators
U.S. regulators have rejected Wells Fargo & Co's plan to repay customers who were pushed into unnecessary auto insurance, telling the bank it must do more to ensure it has found and compensated ...
NRA-Marketed Insurance Hit With Crackdown From California Regulators
California's insurance regulator ordered the National Rifle Association to stop marketing an insurance product without being licensed. A "Carry Guard" product was allegedly being marketed by the NRA ...
Hurricane Florence Already Triggering Business Interruption Policies
Hurricane Florence is still hundreds of miles off the U.S. East Coast, but insurers are starting to see their potential costs from one type of claim mount as companies halt operations to let ...
Lloyd’s Still Set for a Radical, High-Tech Makeover, Promises Outgoing CEO Beale
Lloyd's of London's historic base on Lime Street is heading for a radical makeover, with more focus on shared, collaborative spaces along the lines of a WeWork Cos. office, according to its outgoing ...
U.S. Flood Insurance Reform Remains Unfinished, a Year After Massive Hurricane Damage
U.S. taxpayers who spent billions of dollars after a trifecta of hurricanes last year are poised to do so again after a fix to the nation's troubled flood insurance program remains stalled in ...
Opinion: Catastrophe Bonds Are a Smashing Success
Leave it to catastrophe bonds to be among the most well-functioning debt markets out there. Issuance of "cat bonds" has climbed to more than $11 billion this year, about the same as this time in ...
Global P/C Markets Falling Short on Sustainable Returns: Swiss Re Sigma
Global property/casualty insurance markets are underperforming and have a way to go before producing sustainable returns, Swiss Re said in its latest sigma report. "Most markets remain in a phase of ...
Don’t Expect Reinsurance M&A to Let Up: Fitch Ratings
As global reinsurance executives gathered in Monte Carlo for their annual Reinsurance Rendezvous, Fitch Ratings said it expects consolidation of the industry will continue. Fitch's report echoes ...