Industry News
Calif. Insurance Commissioner Ran Climate-Related Stress Test on Insurers
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones ran a "stress test" on the state's largest insurers, something that he claims is the first done by U.S. financial regulators to focus on climate-related ...
AIG CEO Duperreault’s $43M Pay Package Gains Shareholder Approval
American International Group Inc said shareholders approved a $43.1 million pay package for 2017 for Chief Executive Officer Brian Duperreault during the company's annual meeting on Wednesday. A ...
Insurers, Other Investors Ignoring #MeToo Risks Among Fund Managers
Investors are failing to ask fund managers about sexual misconduct claims and discovering such evidence wouldn't necessarily deter them from committing capital to firms, an industry group found. In ...
Zurich Insurance CFO Quinn: ‘We Don’t Exist to Do M&A’
Zurich Insurance has no plans for a big merger, it said on Wednesday, despite speculation of a pick-up in dealmaking in the industry and that the Swiss company could get involved. The insurer's ...
At-Bay Secures $13M Financing; Money Will Fuel Launch of Cyber Insurance Products, Services
At-Bay pulled in a $13 million round of new funding. Plans call for using the cash infusion to propel a debut of its cyber insurance products and quicken development of a proactive cybersecurity ...
Nationwide Makes Strategic Investment in InsurTech Startup Betterview
Nationwide said its venture arm has made a strategic investment in Betterview, a machine learning InsurTech startup that focuses on capturing and analyzing data from drones, satellite and other ...
Executive Viewpoint: Insurers Must Raise Their Own Cybersecurity Standards Before They Can Credibly Protect Others
Business owners, particularly those with small-to-medium-size businesses, often think of cyber risks as an information technology problem, not a management problem. They believe their IT staff or ...
With Eye on Brexit, Tokio Marine Picks Luxembourg as EU HQ
Tokio Marine Group said it has received regulatory approval from Luxembourg's Commissariat aux Assurances and the Japanese Financial Services Authority to set up a new insurance company in ...