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AIG CEO Duperreault Pledges to Keep Reaching Out to Shareholders Over Executive Pay
American International Group Inc Chief Executive Officer Brian Duperreault said on Thursday the insurer is reaching out to shareholders, per its usual custom, who last month gave his $21 million ...
Wells Fargo Will Pay at Least $385M to Settle Auto Insurance Scam
Wells Fargo & Co. agreed to pay at least $385 million to customers who say they were signed up for auto insurance without their knowledge or consent when they took out a car loan. Terms of the ...
Swiss Re Moves Ahead With Planned $4.5B IPO for UK Life Biz
Swiss Re is pressing ahead with plans to float its $4.5 billion UK life insurance business in London to put it under a more favorable regulatory regime and give it easier access to capital to fund ...
Carrier/InsurTech Partnerships Offer Short-Term Benefits: J.D. Power Expert
Carriers seeking to build up their InsurTech capacity face a number of choices to get there—some quite pricey. In the short term, partnerships may be the most cost-effective and least risky way to ...
One Big Storm Added to This Year’s Hurricane Season Forecasts
It only takes one. Just ask the survivors of Superstorm Sandy or Hurricane Katrina. Colorado State University, which pioneered seasonal storm forecasting 36 years ago, on Tuesday upped the ante for ...
AIG Appoints Validus Re’s Driscoll to General Insurance Leadership Role
American International Group appointed the former CEO of Validus Re to a leadership role within its General Insurance unit. Ken Driscoll was named Global Chief Underwriting Officer for Property and ...
Market Hardening Could Benefit Reinsurers Through 2019: S&P
Following disappointing reinsurance pricing increases in 2018 and early 2019, it seemed that no amount of catastrophe losses would be sufficient to harden the overall market. However, during this ...
California Utility Reportedly Planning $11B Fund to Resolve Wildfire Claims
PG&E Corp. has spoken to lawmakers about putting together a pool of capital worth about $11 billion to settle claims related to wildfires blamed on the bankrupt California utility, according to ...