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Insurers Urged to Show Caution When They Pursue Recovery of Paradigm Fees
Paradigm Catastrophic Care Management offers what insurers crave: certainty in medical costs for workers compensation claims filed by catastrophically injured workers. For a set fee, the California ...
Insurers Propose Their Own Plan for PG&E Bankruptcy Reorganization
Insurance companies contending that Pacific Gas & Electric owes them more than $20 billion from wildfire claims want to take over the California utility and pull it out of bankruptcy. The ...
InsurTech Investment Remained High in a Robust Q2: Willis Towers Watson
InsurTech investment worldwide continued at high levels during the second quarter of 2019, marking the fourth consecutive quarter during which total new funding commitments exceeded $1.2 billion, ...
U.S. Judge Slashes $2B Roundup Verdict Against Bayer to $86M
A California judge on Thursday reduced a $2 billion jury verdict, slashing the award for a couple who blamed Bayer AG's glyphosate-based weed killer, Roundup, for their cancer to $86.7 million. ...
Increasing Fears of No-Deal Brexit Lead to Pound Tumble
The pound and gilt yields slid to multi-year lows as U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson stepped up preparations for a no-deal Brexit with just about three months left until the nation exits the ...
The Details on Arturo, a Deep-Learning Property Analytics Startup Actively Seeking Financing
Arturo's emergence was a bit atypical in terms of how the birth of an InsurTech has typically gone. Rather than beginning life as a pure play standalone startup, Arturo spun out of American Family ...
AIG’s Waldner Named as Insurer’s First-Ever Chief Sustainability Officer
A veteran American International Group executive has been named its first-ever Chief Sustainability Officer. In this role, Jennifer Waldner will be tasked with leading the development and ...
Argo Group Warns Q2 Earnings Will Take a Hit
Argo Group International Holdings Ltd. is warning that its results for its 2019 second quarter will take a hit due to losses affecting operations in London, Europe and Bermuda. Issues at play ...