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Twitter Tweaks Security to Thwart Hackers After Media Company Hits
Twitter Inc. unveiled technology to boost security for its users, following a spate of attacks on accounts of prominent media outlets including the Associated Press, the Financial Times and The ...
London’s Parhelion Underwriting Is First to Insure California Carbon Credits
Parhelion Underwriting Ltd. became the first insurer to offer a policy to protect companies from the invalidation of carbon offset credits sold as part of California's cap-and-trade program. ...
The success of MGAs needs little introduction. For the past several years, the MGA story has been one of growth,...
U.S. Needs Stronger Action Against Trade Secret Theft by China: Commission
Theft of trade secrets, chiefly by China, costs the U.S. economy $300 billion a year and must be fought with sanctions as tough as those used against terrorism and drug trafficking, an advisory panel ...
Top 15 Global Insurance Markets: 2020
Peering into the future, Munich Re reported that the global property/casualty insurance market would grow to 1.85 trillion euros ($2.4 trillion) by 2020, also providing a breakdown of the largest ...
P/C Loss Reserve Position Stronger, Conning Says
The property/casualty insurance industry's loss reserve position improved in 2012, according to analysts at Conning, who estimate an overall redundancy of 3.3 percent of carried reserves in spite of ...
U.S. Insurance Recruiter Jacobson, London’s ejsSearch Complete Merger
Chicago-based Jacobson Group, which provides recruits to the insurance industry, and ejsSearch – the London-based insurance executive search firm specializing in assignments in London and broader ...
AIG Sues Convicted U. of Virginia Killer Huguely Over Insurance Probe
George W. Huguely V, the ex-University of Virginia lacrosse player convicted of murdering his sometime girlfriend in May 2010, was sued by American International Group Inc. over his refusal to ...
5 New Cat Bonds in Q1 Total $1.6B: Willis
The first quarter of 2013 saw $1.6 billion of new issuance in non-life capacity marketed through five catastrophe bond transactions, including three transactions marketed in the first quarter and ...