International
RSA Backs $9.6B Takeover Offer From Overseas Rivals
British insurance group RSA is backing a 7.2 billion pound ($9.55 billion) cash offer from Canada's Intact Financial and Denmark's Tryg in one of Europe's biggest financial takeover bids this year. ...
2020’s Most Powerful Atlantic Hurricane Strikes Central America
Hurricane Iota slammed into Central America late Monday with ferocious winds and rain, threatening to cripple a region already reeling from a deadly storm two weeks ago. Iota, the most powerful ...
Zywave Snatches Up Advisen in Move to Accelerate Global Growth
Insurance technology company Zywave snatched up Advisen, a global insurance data provider, in a deal expected to fuel more rapid international growth. The acquisition includes WCL, a UK-based Advisen ...
AXA Fights Order to Pay Millions of Euros in Back Taxes: Report
AXA SA was ordered to pay tens of millions of euros in back taxes last year after French fiscal authorities deemed a Luxembourg-based structure was improperly used to avoid tax payments in France, ...
Insurers Make UK Case for Limiting Pandemic Business Interruption Cover
Major insurance companies told the UK Supreme Court on Monday it was wrong to assume there could be unlimited cover during a pandemic in an appeal closely watched by thousands of British businesses ...
Watson’s Fairfax to Sell Vault; A.M. Best Issues Ratings Downgrade
Vault Insurance – a high-net-worth insurer majority-owned by Fairfax Financial's Allied World – will be sold, a decision that has led to an initial A.M. Best ratings downgrade. A.M. Best knocked ...
Insurers Targeted by U.S. Sanctions Over Nord Stream 2 Pipeline
The U.S. is drawing up additional sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline project, the latest obstacle in the path of the 9.5 billion-euro ($11.2 billion) Russia-to-Germany link that's ...
Zurich Insurance: COVID-19 Claims Won’t Make Huge Impact
Zurich Insurance Group does not expect property claims triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic to materially affect the group, Europe's fifth-largest insurer said on Thursday, adding that it planned to ...