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Tower Group Shareholders to Vote on ACP Re Merger in August
Tower Group International's shareholders will finally get their chance to approve or reject a merger agreement with ACP Re, months after the proposed deal was first announced. The Bermuda insurer and ...
Specialty Insurance Group Launched by Trio of Insurance Veterans
A trio of specialty and risk insurance veterans has launched Specialty Insurance Group (SIG) to provide custom programs for the ever-changing needs of the sports, leisure and entertainment markets. ...
State of Core Solutions Transition: Which Tech Priorities Are Being Carried Out?
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You have two watches. Your first watch is analog. It has dials, gears, crystals and movements. It is a machine...
Swiss Re Sees Emerging Risks in Smart Cities and Rubber Tree Plants
Property/casualty and other insurers face a number of new emerging risks, and they're not necessarily what, or where, you'd think. Technological issues relating to smart cities, plant pathogens that ...
More U.S. Corps. Moving to Avoid U.S. Taxes: Congress Study
Seventy-six U.S. corporations have shifted their tax domiciles out of the United States to other countries since 1983 to avoid U.S. taxes, with a sharp increase recently in such deals, a policy ...
New Agri Re Team Joins Endurance
On Tuesday, Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. announced that Avery Cook and Kristopher Lynn will join Endurance later this month to underwrite and manage international agriculture reinsurance ...
IRC Study Finds More Auto Injury Claimants Hiring Attorneys
A new study from the Insurance Research Council (IRC) found that the percentage of auto-related personal injury protection (PIP) claimants represented by attorneys rose to 36 percent in 2012—up ...
Allianz Outlines the Insurance Needs of Emerging-Market Skyscrapers
As the number of skyscrapers and high rises jumps almost exponentially in Asia and the Middle East, the insurance industry faces major challenges in covering risks from construction to completion and ...
EC Wants Online Gambling ‘Health Warnings’
The European Commission will urge countries to demand that online gambling advertisements display warning messages like cigarette packets, according to a draft document seen by Reuters. The EU ...