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Berkshire Hathaway’s Gen Re Promotes Brogan to Lead Aircraft Risk Unit
Gen Re promoted John Brogan to chief executive officer of an aviation unit as the reinsurer at Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. phases in a new generation of leadership. Brogan replaces David ...
Hurricane Nicole Hits Bermuda, Barely a Week After Matthew Went Away
Hurricane Nicole made landfall in Bermuda on Oct. 13 as a Category 3 storm, less than a week after Hurricane Matthew plowed through the island nation and Haiti before slamming into the U.S. Southeast ...
Commercial Lines Tech Startup Embroker Now Open for Business
Technology-inspired startup insurance broker Embroker, which bills itself as the first modern business insurance platform, has officially launched. Embroker is a commercial lines platform that ...
InsurTech Startup Launches Lease Guarantee Platform in New York
TheGuarantors, a New York-based insurance tech startup founded in 2014, is seeking to make renting an apartment in New York easier for landlords, brokers and renters through its newly launched, ...
AIG CEO Peter Hancock’s Innovation Sources: Nobel Prize Winners, Client Councils and More
Here's an innovation you may not have heard about in the insurance world: client councils. AIG President and CEO Peter Hancock said that his company forms and hosts client councils in order to ...
British Government’s Planned Brexit Trigger is Unconstitutional Power Grab: Attorney
Lawyers seeking to force the government to hold a Parliamentary vote on whether to leave the European Union told a panel of three senior judges that Prime Minister Theresa May's bid to trigger Brexit ...
Millions of North Carolina Chickens Killed in Hurricane Matthew Floods
Flooding from Hurricane Matthew has killed up to 5 million poultry birds in North Carolina, most of them chickens, the state's top environmental official said on Wednesday, hurting a major ...
Swiss Re, Brazilian Conglomerate to Launch Commercial Large-Risk Insurer
Swiss Re Group and a South American conglomerate are jointly launching a commercial large-risk insurer in Brazil, and the reinsurer plans to own a majority stake. The actual partnership, which goes ...