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Executives On The Move at Farmers Insurance and Liberty Mutual
Farmers Insurance promoted from within to appoint its new chief claims officer. A Liberty Mutual executive was promoted to lead a National Insurance Specialty Unit that provides coverage for large ...
The Latest Launches From Corvus Insurance and XL Catlin
Corvus Insurance debuted a new "smart" policy designed to provide broad cyber coverage as well as predict and prevent cyber insurance risks through ongoing IT security scanning and scoring. XL Catlin ...
FEMA Explores Added Expansion of Disaster Reinsurance Program
The federal government, seeking to protect itself from the growing cost of natural disasters, is borrowing a technique from the private sector and buying reinsurance. The Federal Emergency Management ...
Executives On the Move at AmTrust, Chubb and Everest Re
AmTrust Financial Services has a new Group chief Underwriting Officer. Chubb appointed an executive to lead the financial lines arm of its Overseas General Insurance division. A former Chubb ...
Lloyd’s Begins Search for Transformative InsurTech Talent
Lloyd's of London has begun a search for InsurTech talent that can help grow and advance its digital capabilities. The venerable specialist insurance/reinsurance market said the process will take ...
Coalition’s Cyber and Tech E&O Coverage to Be Offered Through Big ‘I’ Markets
Cyber insurance startup Coalition inked a partnership deal with Big "I" Markets that will give it a broad market reach for its cyber and technology E&O coverage. Big "I" Markets is the online ...
Insurers Stand to Benefit if Malaysia Revisits Foreign Ownership Directive
Malaysia is likely to review a directive to foreign insurers to reduce ownership of their local units by nearly a third as finding domestic buyers for the equity stakes is proving hard, three people ...
Who Will Allianz Acquire Next? There Are Plenty of Potential M&A Targets
A $94 billion financial behemoth is keeping the market on tenterhooks about its next move. Europe's largest insurer, Allianz SE, is in the early stages of evaluating a variety of potential ...