International
Iceland to Hedge Funds: Don’t Sue Over Planned Tax on Failed Bank Assets
The prime minister of Iceland said any hedge fund planning to challenge the legal basis of a planned tax on failed bank assets should think again. "If they wanted to make some kind of an example out ...
RIMS: Enterprise Risk Management Does Indeed Help Spot Cyber Risks
A whopping 77 percent of risk management professionals credit enterprise risk management with helping them spot cyber risks at their companies. That is one of the major findings from the Risk and ...
EXOR Will Urge PartnerRe Shareholders to Reject AXIS Merger
EXOR lost its bid in a Bermuda court to obtain PartnerRe's non-public ownership details, losing access to information that would help it lobby shareholders directly about its $6.8 billion all-cash ...
Marsh: P/C Carriers Keeping Up With Soaring Interest in Commercial Drones
Property/casualty insurers have responded positively to the soaring interest in and use of commercial drones, even as global regulators struggle to keep up with the nascent industry, Marsh asserted ...
Guy Carpenter: June 1 Re Renewal Price Decreases Lessened
After two years of reinsurance price decreases averaging 15 percent on U.S. property catastrophe placement, risk-adjusted pricing moderated at the latest June 1 renewals, Guy Carpenter said. "Many ...
Cyber Attack Compromises PII of U.S. Federal Workers; China Link Probed
Hackers broke into U.S. government computers, possibly compromising the personal data of 4 million current and former federal employees, and investigators were probing whether the culprits were based ...
U.S. Storms Caused $1B in May Insurance Claims: Impact Forecasting
A number of severe thunderstorms and flooding in the U.S. in May produced more than $1 billion in insurance claims and over $3 billion in economic losses, Aon Benfield's Impact Forecasting said in a ...
Executives On The Move at W.R. Berkley, JLT Re, Ironshore and More
W.R. Berkley Corp. promoted three long-time executives at the company to the offices of executive vice president. Eugene Ballard, who has been with Berkley since 1999, has previously served as senior ...