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Insurers Pressured by Activist Groups to Drop Coverage of Oil Sands Pipeline
A coalition of 32 environmental and indigenous groups on Thursday urged insurers to stop underwriting the Trans Mountain pipeline to pressure Canada to cancel its plan to expand the project which ...
Zurich Insurance Ends Revamp Ahead of Schedule, With Goals Complete
Zurich Insurance Group AG said it will exceed all of its financial targets as the global insurer benefits from a three-year turnaround plan that slashed costs. The combined ratio, a key measure of ...
Mobile Sales Assistant Vymo Raises $19M; AXA, Allianz Among Customers
Vymo, a technology company whose mobile app captures and automates data for insurance sales reps and others on the go, has raised $18 million in new financing. The India-based SaaS (software as a ...
Updated: AIG’s General Insurance Unit Turns a Profit for the Second Quarter in a Row
American International Group (AIG) President and CEO Brian Duperreault has insisted that the insurer's General Insurance unit will produce an underwriting profit for all of 2019, after a decade of ...
For Munich Re, Claims Decline and Net Profit Soars
German reinsurer Munich Re on Wednesday reported a 36% rise in net profit in the second quarter, helped by low claims from major losses, and stuck to its forecast for 2019. Net profit was 993 million ...
As Hacker Attacks Swell, Cybersecurity Experts Can Name Their Price
It took a $650,000 salary for Matt Comyns to entice a seasoned cybersecurity expert to join one of America's largest companies as chief information security officer in 2012. At the time, it was among ...
Climate Change Worsened Europe’s Record Heatwave in July
Heat scorched Western Europe this July in what will likely be confirmed as the hottest month in recorded history, according to the UN's World Meteorological Organization. "This is not your ...
Massachusetts-Based Cybersecurity Company Raises $200M to Fuel Global Expansion
Antivirus startup Cybereason said on Tuesday it raised $200 million in investment from Japan's SoftBank Group Corp, doubling the total investments raised by the company so far to about $400 million. ...