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For QBE, a Focus on Profitable Underwriting Begins to Pay Off
QBE's restructuring over the last year has focused on exiting loss-making businesses and portfolios, while rigorously emphasizing profitable underwriting across the group. Good progress has been made ...
The Hartford, Eyeing Specialty Markets, Will Grab Navigators in $2.1B Cash Deal
The Hartford plans to snatch up The Navigators Group in a $2.1 billion cash deal that will boost its specialty insurance and reinsurance offerings while giving it a larger global reach. Plans call ...
Forms are the foundation of every insurance product. So why does managing them still feel like the slowest part of...
FRISS Adds Online Network Analysis to Its Fraud Detection Arsenal
Insureds looking to commit fraud will no longer be able to simply ask a friend or neighbor to sign as a witness to a claim for car damages, thanks to a new offering from FRISS, a worldwide provider ...
Small Biz Customers Rank Nationwide As Top Insurer; Travelers, Hartford Lag
Nationwide Insurance came up on top of J.D. Power's 2018 customer ranking of small commercial insurers, vaulting up from the middle of the carrier pack in 2017, while overall satisfaction scores for ...
With No Clarity on Trade Deal, UK Insurers Speed Brexit Plans: A.M. Best
In the absence of a Brexit trade deal between the United Kingdom and the European Union, insurers in the UK have accelerated their plans to establish new EU subsidiaries and ensure business ...
Insurance Premiums From InsurTech to Exceed $400B by 2023
Insurance premiums generated by emerging InsurTech services will exceed $400 billion by 2023, up from an estimated $187 billion in 2018, according to a new study from U.K.-based Juniper Research. The ...
Uber Hires Insurance Exec as CFO
Uber Technologies Inc. has hired a chief financial officer, the ride-services company said on Tuesday, filling a long-standing vacancy and clearing the way for a much-anticipated initial public ...
Scherer Retiring From Cincinnati Insurance Next Year; Related Leadership Changes Announced
Cincinnati Financial Corporation announced on Monday that Jacob F. Scherer Jr., chief insurance officer and executive vice president of its lead subsidiary, The Cincinnati Insurance Company, plans to ...