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State Auto Discloses Strengthened Prior Year Loss Expense Reserves
State Auto Financial Corp., a super regional property/casualty insurance holding company, has disclosed two big financial developments: strengthened prior year loss expense reserves and an adverse ...
Berkshire Hathaway’s Gen Re Advances Two Execs; Tooker Resigns
General Re Corp., one of the reinsurance units at Warren Buffett's BerkshireHathaway Inc., named Robert M. Jones and Carole M. Ferrero to lead direct sales of property- casualty coverage. Jones will ...
Effective compliance management in insurance relies on well-organized information and digital processes that accurately reflect producer relationships across multiple interconnected...
Karen Clark Rolls Out New U.S. High-Res Storm Surge Model
Karen Clark & Co. is rolling out a new U.S.-focused high-resolution storm surge model. The catastrophe risk company said the new model brings advances to the market including fully transparent ...
Loeb’s Third Point Re Picks U.S. Location, Discloses Offering Plans
Third Point Reinsurance Ltd., the Bermuda- based company co-founded by hedge-fund manager Dan Loeb, has picked Short Hills, New Jersey, as the location for a new U.S. subsidiary. Shane Haverstick, ...
Suits Against Haliburton, KBR Concerning Overseas Conduct to Proceed
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed lawsuits to move forward against government contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan by declining to hear appeals filed by KBR Inc and Halliburton Co. The high ...
U.S. Supreme Court May Raise Bar For Housing Discrimination Suits
The U.S. Supreme Court is positioned to wipe out a major category of housing-discrimination suits, and civil rights groups are running out of ways to stop it. In arguments Wednesday in Washington, ...
Beleaguered Ex-S&P Exec Attempts to Block SEC Administrative Charges
A former executive of Standard & Poor's sued the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday to block the regulator from bringing administrative charges against her over credit ratings for ...
Global Nuclear Accident Compensation Fund Launches With Japan Signing
Japan signed on to a global nuclear- compensation treaty in Vienna that will create a fund to help victims of accidents like the one that devastated Fukushima Dai- Ichi in 2011. The Convention on ...