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Retail Group Revs Up Lobbying Push for National Flood Insurance Program Renewal
A major real estate association plans a multi-day lobbying blitz in Washington D.C. this week to focus, in part, on the need for renewal of the National Flood Insurance Program before it expires on ...
Soft Global Reinsurance Pricing in Play Through Year’s End: Fitch
The soft pricing in the global reinsurance market will continue at least for the rest of the year, Fitch Ratings says. Fitch expects premium rates to continue declining as a result of large amounts ...
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Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Sells Fox Shares, Boosts American Airlines Stake
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Monday said it added to its sizable investments in American Airlines Group Inc and Southwest Airlines Co, and shed its stake in Twenty-First Century Fox ...
AIG Shareholders Have Yet to See Post-Bailout Financial Gains
Since its 2008 bailout, American International Group Inc. has delivered paydays for investment bankers, Warren Buffett and even departing executives. Shareholders? Not so much. AIG shares have lost ...
Executives On The Move at Beazley, BHSI, JLT and More
Specialist insurer Beazley hired two new executives for its U.S. environmental team. Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance named a veteran executive to a position that covers the UK and Southern ...
As Global Ransomware Attack Slows, the Search Is on for Hackers, Motive
The global WannaCry ransomware cyber attack slowed on Monday, with no major infections reported, as global law enforcement agencies shifted their attention to finding the hackers who unleashed it. ...
New AIG CEO Brian Duperreault: ‘I Didn’t Come Here to Break the Company Up’
New American International Group President and CEO Brian Duperreault began his first full day on the job publicly repudiating the idea of splitting the struggling insurer into pieces and simply ...
MetLife ‘Too Big to Fail’ Case on Hold: U.S. Appeals Court
A U.S. appeals court on Friday granted a 60-day pause in the long-running case in which the country's largest life insurer, MetLife Inc., has challenged the federal government's labeling of it as ...