Industry News
Insurance Included in Singapore’s Plans to Create 4,000 Finance Sector Jobs
Singapore wants to bolster its status as a wealth management and foreign-exchange center as part of plans to create more financial-sector jobs and mitigate the effect of rapid changes in technology. ...
Executives On The Move at Ironshore and The Hartford
Ironshore appointed three executives to underwrite Specialty Casualty risk in U.S. and London markets. The Hartford named a new chief medical officer. *** Iron-Excess, the excess underwriting unit of ...
Executives On The Move at AIG and Wells Media Group
American International Group has a new chairman of its Risk Management division. Wells Media Group, publisher of Carrier Management, Insurance Journal and Claims Journal, has a new senior strategist, ...
After Historic Storms, Insurers May Not Be Able to Price Their Way Back
The worst hurricane season in modern U.S. history is starting to look like a blip on the charts of insurance stocks, with investors banking on a quick restoration of capital as firms rediscover ...
Q3 Catastrophe Fallout: XL Group’s Fitch Ratings Outlook Turns Negative
XL Group got smacked with a negative ratings outlook from Fitch Ratings, thanks to pre-tax natural catastrophe losses in Q3 that hit $1.48 billion. Fitch said it revised the ratings outlook to ...
Insurers Increasingly Anxious About Managing Risks: Wolters Kluwer Survey
Insurers appear to be increasingly anxious about their ability to manage risk across their lines of business, and much more concerned about regulation, according to Wolters Kluwer's new Regulatory ...
W.R. Berkley CEO: Cat Losses Will Force Carriers to Rethink Market Priorities
In light of hurricanes and earthquakes in the 2017 third quarter that left insured catastrophe losses likely surpassing $100 billion, W.R. Berkley Corp. President and CEO Robert Berkley Jr. said he ...
AIG, Insurer to Disney/ABC, Sues to Avoid Paying Partial ‘Pink Slime’ Settlement Costs
American International Group Inc on Thursday sued Walt Disney Co to avoid having to reimburse the parent of ABC News for part of a settlement of a meat producer's defamation lawsuit over a product ...