Industry News
Limited Matthew Impact Expected on 1/1 Re Rates: Baden Baden Report
Hurricane Matthew will have a limited impact on the years-long decline in rates for reinsurance, according to industry representatives, who predict primary insurers will push back against price ...
Will Big Data, Social Networking Scores Remove Risk-Sharing From Insurance?
When people take to Twitter to comment on the great evening they enjoyed with good food and wonderful friends, reducing their monthly insurance bill is probably the last thing on their mind. But such ...
Mitsui Buys 15% of XL’s New Ocean Capital; Commits $100M Investment Funds
Mitsui & Co., Japan's second-biggest trading house, agreed to purchase a 15 percent stake in New Ocean Capital, the asset manager that was founded by XL Group Ltd. and Stone Point Capital to make ...
Online Sites From N.Y. to L.A. Crashed Friday in Hacker Web-Host Siege
Millions of internet users temporarily lost access to some of the world's most popular websites Friday, as hackers hammered servers along the U.S. East Coast with phony traffic until they crashed, ...
Executives On The Move at Erie Insurance, CNA and Everest Re
Both CNA and Erie Insurance made a number of new executive appointments. Everest Re hired a former QBE executive as head of Professional Liability. *** Erie Insurance made a number of new executive ...
RMS Hurricane Matthew Insured Loss Estimate: $5B in U.S., $3B for Caribbean
Hurricane Matthew-related insured losses are still being tallied, but RMS said that the number will reach as high as $5 billion in the U.S. and $3 billon in the Caribbean. The catastrophe modeling ...
Western Insurers Slowly Rebuild Iran Business Ties
Western insurers are slowly reaching deals with Iran as they seek to re-enter a multi-billion dollar market although the pace of business is hampered by banking restrictions ten months on from the ...
Ex-AIG CFO Herzog Named to MetLife Board
MetLife Inc., the largest U.S. life insurer, elected David Herzog, the former chief financial officer of American International Group Inc., to its board of directors. The addition brings the total ...