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Africa Experiments With Sovereign Risk Pool Insurance Scheme
In the 1980s images of skeletal Ethiopian babies and their parents, dying from hunger during a devastating famine, helped galvanize global humanitarian and financial aid to drought-ravaged African ...
Tower Group Rejects Offer From Eastern European Insurer
Tower Group International's board of directors unanimously rejected a surprise acquisition bid submitted earlier this week from an Eastern European Insurer, choosing instead to focus on an ongoing ...
Google Getting Takedown Requests After ‘Right-to-be-Forgotten’ Ruling
Google Inc. is already getting requests to remove objectionable personal information from its search engine after Europe's top court ruled that subjects have the "right to be forgotten," a source ...
Bluegrass State Makes 50 for Lloyd’s Surplus Lines Eligibility
Lloyd's will have surplus lines eligibility in all 50 US states when legislation passed in Kentucky comes into effect in July, Lloyd's announced Wednesday. Lloyd's is also an admitted insurer in ...
Bennett Moves From QBE to Hardy to Head Up Casualty Underwriting
Hardy Underwriting announced Wednesday that Craig Bennett has agreed to join the group to head up casualty underwriting and plans to start in late October/early November. In this new role, Craig will ...
Iranian Hackers Becoming Aggressive: Cyber Security Experts
Iranian hackers have become increasingly aggressive and sophisticated, moving from disrupting and defacing U.S. websites to engaging in cyber espionage, security experts say. According to Silicon ...
Dogs Biting U.S. Insurers; Record Claims in 2013
Dog-bite claims for U.S. insurers climbed 5.5 percent last year to 17,359, breaking the record from 2003. New York had the costliest attacks among states with the most incidents. The assaults cost ...
Study Shows Pacific Tropical Cyclone Intensity Shifting Farther North: U.S. Researchers
Typhoons are peaking in strength farther north in the western Pacific Ocean, and that may have consequences for Japan and the Korean peninsula in years to come, according to researchers. Tropical ...