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Sompo Japan Expanding Overseas with Acquisition of Canopius for $963M
Sompo Japan Insurance Inc., a unit of Japan's third-largest casualty insurer group by market value, will buy Canopius Group Ltd. of the U.K. for 99.2 billion yen ($963 million) as it expands beyond ...
Zurich Insurance Policy Lowers Banks’ Operational Risk Capital Needs
Zurich Insurance Group AG, Switzerland's biggest insurer, plans to offer banks a way to lower the amount of capital they need to hold for operational risks such as employee misconduct as regulators ...
It has been said that the best advertisement for insurance is not having it (or not having enough of it)...
Ex-BP Engineer Destroyed Gulf Spill Evidence, Jury Told
A former BP Plc engineer deliberately destroyed evidence sought by the U.S. for a probe of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico well explosion and oil spill, a federal prosecutor said at the end of a trial in New ...
AmTrust Refutes Negative Report on Accounting, Says Future ‘Never Been Brighter’
AmTrust Financial Services Inc. (AFSI), a New York-headquartered insurer whose stock price fell last week in wake of a negative report from research firm GeoInvesting, is assuring investors its ...
Hartford May Sell Remaining Corporate-Owned Life Insurance Business
Hartford Financial Services Group Inc., the insurer which rebuffed an activist's calls to split into two companies last year, is considering a sale of a business that offered companies life insurance ...
GEICO Passes Allstate to Become 2d Largest U.S. Auto Insurer: SNL
Based on third quarter reports, GEICO Corp. has surpassed Allstate Corp. to become the nation's second-largest private auto insurer. According to data compiled by SNL, GEICO logged $4.89 billion in ...
Make Sure That Classic Car Isn’t a Fake
In the 1930s, British sports-car maker MG made exactly 33 of the K3 open-top race car. If you want to buy one now, there are more than 100 to choose from. No, the defunct carmaker didn't restart ...
Nasdaq Loses Bid to Have Facebook IPO Lawsuit Dismissed
A federal judge has rejected Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.'s bid to dismiss lawsuits by investors who accused the exchange operator of botching Facebook Inc's $16 billion initial public offering, a decision ...