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The Latest Launches From Corvus Insurance and XL Catlin
Corvus Insurance debuted a new "smart" policy designed to provide broad cyber coverage as well as predict and prevent cyber insurance risks through ongoing IT security scanning and scoring. XL Catlin ...
Threat of Crippling Cyber Attacks Puts UK Banks on War Footing
The Bank of England told banks to be ready for war against the mounting threat of crippling cyber attacks. "I would like our firms to be on a WAR footing: withstand; absorb; recover," Lyndon Nelson, ...
Liability Twist: Massachusetts Sues Purdue Execs, Directors Over Opioid Crisis
Massachusetts on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma LP, accusing the OxyContin maker of illegally promoting the use of opioids, and became the first state to sue the drugmaker's executives ...
FEMA Explores Added Expansion of Disaster Reinsurance Program
The federal government, seeking to protect itself from the growing cost of natural disasters, is borrowing a technique from the private sector and buying reinsurance. The Federal Emergency Management ...
Executives On the Move at AmTrust, Chubb and Everest Re
AmTrust Financial Services has a new Group chief Underwriting Officer. Chubb appointed an executive to lead the financial lines arm of its Overseas General Insurance division. A former Chubb ...
Lloyd’s Begins Search for Transformative InsurTech Talent
Lloyd's of London has begun a search for InsurTech talent that can help grow and advance its digital capabilities. The venerable specialist insurance/reinsurance market said the process will take ...
Coalition’s Cyber and Tech E&O Coverage to Be Offered Through Big ‘I’ Markets
Cyber insurance startup Coalition inked a partnership deal with Big "I" Markets that will give it a broad market reach for its cyber and technology E&O coverage. Big "I" Markets is the online ...
Insurers Stand to Benefit if Malaysia Revisits Foreign Ownership Directive
Malaysia is likely to review a directive to foreign insurers to reduce ownership of their local units by nearly a third as finding domestic buyers for the equity stakes is proving hard, three people ...