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Hurricane Maria Aftermath: Carriers Leave 13,600 Unresolved Claims a Year After Storm
Thousands of Puerto Ricans have been forced to drain their savings, close their businesses, or resign themselves to living with structural damage as they fight insurance companies over millions of ...
Super Typhoon Yutu Slams Into Northern Mariana Islands at Historic Strength
Super Typhoon Yutu battered the Pacific Ocean's Northern Mariana Islands with 178 mile (286 kilometers) per hour winds, making it the strongest storm to hit the U.S. territory since 1950. The storm's ...
MAPFRE, Insurance Agents Help Towns Get Back to Normal After Gas Explosions
As three Massachusetts towns faced the aftereffects of a series of natural gas explosions in September, finding some normalcy may have seemed nearly impossible. However, this is something MAPFRE ...
InsurTech Profile: Kordinator Adds Empathy to Automated Customer Service
Automated customer service is a fact of life. In fact, many people are more comfortable sharing personal details with a machine than with a human. But automation must appreciate that not every ...
The Latest Launches From AXA XL, Munich Re America and Marsh
AXA XL's primary cyber and technology insurance clients can now get complimentary proactive services meant to help promote resiliency before cyber attacks. Munich Re America has begun marketing a ...
Chubb CEO Greenberg: New Lloyd’s Leader Neal Has His Work Cut Out for Him
Chubb President and CEO Evan Greenberg offered positive words about new Lloyd's of London CEO John Neal, though he cautioned that the venerable insurance marketplace has a long way to go to address ...
Reinsurance Backed by ‘Alternative’ Capital Is Now Mainstream: Willis Towers Watson
The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market is here to stay, said a new survey from Willis Towers Watson. End investors, ILS funds, and buyers – the three groups active in ILS – have ...
New York Accuses Exxon Mobil of Deceiving Investors on Climate Costs
Lawyers for Exxon Mobil Corp. stood before a New York judge in August and told the state's attorney general to "put up or shut up" after spending three years investigating the company's public ...