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Wells Fargo Selling Commercial Insurance Business to USI Insurance
Wells Fargo is selling its commercial insurance business to national brokerage USI Insurance Services. USI said it has agreed to acquire Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA, which includes commercial ...
Executives On The Move at Chubb, Hiscox USA and Crawford & Company
Chubb named a new leader for a key business within its North America Financial Lines division. There's a newly-appointed chief operating officer at Hiscox USA. A former Zurich North America executive ...
Major Ransomware Virus Attacks Servers Across Europe
A major ransomware attack on Tuesday hit computers at Russia's biggest oil company, the country's banks, Ukraine's international airport as well as global shipping firm A.P. Moller-Maersk. ...
Anthem to Settle U.S. Data Breach Lawsuits With Record $115M Payment
Anthem Inc, the largest U.S. health insurance company, has agreed to settle litigation over hacking in 2015 that compromised about 79 million people's personal information for $115 million, which ...
Apple, Cisco Jointly Pursue Cyber Insurance Discounts for Their Business Clients
Apple Inc is working with Cisco Systems Inc to help businesses that primarily use gear from both companies to get a discount on cyber-security insurance premiums, Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim ...
Industry’s First-Quarter 2017 Net Income Down 42.2 Percent
The U.S. property/casualty industry saw net income after taxes plummet 42.2 percent to $7.7 billion in first-quarter 2017 from $13.4 billion for the same period in 2016—the lowest net income since ...
Five Questions With Friendsurance Co-Founder Tim Kunde
When Carrier Management last checked in with Friendsurance in June 2016, the Berlin-based company was pursuing expansion, both in number of customers and geographic reach. One year later, the ...
XL Catlin, The McGowan Companies Seal Workplace Violence Insurance Marketing deal
XL Catlin and The McGowan Companies have an exclusive underwriting agreement to start marketing workplace violence insurance to U.S. businesses. The arrangement calls for The McGowan Companies, a ...