Industry News
Media Attention Can Make Investors Skittish About New Female CEOs
Too much media attention for a new CEO appointment can make investors skittish—but only when the CEO is a woman, according to new research. Companies that appoint female leaders are better off if ...
Executives On The Move at Ironshore, Swiss Re, BHSI and Kemper
Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance hired two former Chubb executives to roll out new insurance coverage in Australia. Swiss Re Corporate Solutions promoted an executive on the rise. Ironshore ...
American Financial Pitches ‘Best and Final’ Offer to National Interstate
American Financial Group is trying again, upping its bid one last time to acquire the remaining common shares of National Interstate Corp. that its subsidiary doesn't already own. Great American ...
Colorado State Hikes Atlantic Hurricane Forecast Up to 15 Storms
Colorado State University edged up its seasonal Atlantic hurricane forecast to 15, three more than in an average year. The new prediction is that six of those storms will become hurricanes and two ...
New Gen Re CEO Raiguel Strikes Broker Deal With TransRe
Gen Re, the unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. that appointed a new chief executive officer in May, struck a deal with a rival reinsurer to help revive sales. Alleghany Corp.'s TransRe ...
H1 Cat Bond Issuance Drops in Sign of Possible Market Change
Catastrophe bond issuance in the first half of 2016 dropped substantially compared to the same period a year ago, according to a new report from the Property Claims Services unit of Verisk Insurance ...
A Nearly 20% Workers Comp Rate Increase Proposed by NCCI in Florida
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) announced July 1 that the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) filed an amended rate filing to address a third legal change affecting ...
AXIS Capital’s Fledgling Harrington Re Raises $600M
Harrington Re., a fledgling Bermuda operation sponsored by AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd., has raised $600 million in capital designed to beef up underwriting and investment plans put forth by its ...