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Climate Change Will Spur Future Sovereign Ratings Downgrades: S&P
Thailand's credit rating downgraded by two levels. Dominican Republic lowered one grade. These are not real news headlines yet, but could be, according to scenarios outlined by Standard & Poor's. ...
Kramer, De Mey, Dionne Nominated for 2016 Insurance Hall of Fame
The International Insurance Society (IIS) has announced three candidates for the 2016 Insurance Hall of Fame: Donald Kramer, chairman and chief executive officer, ILS Capital Management; Jozef De ...
Pre-Climate Conference Report: Rate of Weather Disasters Doubled in 20 Years
Weather-related disasters such as floods and heatwaves have occurred almost daily in the past decade, almost twice as often as two decades ago, with Asia being the hardest hit region, a U.N. report ...
How Virtual Agents Powered by Artificial Intelligence Can Transform Insurance
As with most industries within the financial services sector, insurance is facing the dual pressures of needing to keep costs down in a competitive environment while maintaining satisfaction ...
10 Straight Qtrs. of Commercial Rate Drops; Cyber Only Up Line: Marsh
Cyber insurance stood out in the third quarter as the only line for which insurers saw consistent and large rate increases, which averaged more than 15 percent in the United States, according to the ...
Cincinnati Financial Adds Commercial Lines Leaders; Exec Retirements Announced
Cincinnati Financial Corp. announced earlier this month that Stephen M. Spray, senior vice president, will transition to commercial insurance operations at Cincinnati Insurance effective Jan. 1, ...
AIG Life Books May Be On the Block: Bloomberg Report
American International Group Inc., the insurer being pressured by activist investor Carl Icahn to boost returns, is considering the sale of blocks of life policies, according to people familiar with ...
WCRI Event to Explore ACA Case Shifting to Workers Comp
The Workers Compensation Research Institute is presenting a webinar early next month examining the impacts of the Affordable Care Act on the workers compensation line. Although pundits have written ...