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W.R. Berkley Rates, Profit Up; CEO Comments on Berkshire Specialty
W.R. Berkley Corp. reported $116 million net income for its 2013 second quarter, up more than 6 percent from $109 million net income posted one year ago. The net income for the first six months of ...Travelers’ Q2 Profit Up Due to Continued Rate Hikes
Travelers Cos., the lone property/casualty insurer in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, said second-quarter profit climbed 85 percent as price increases helped improve margins. Net income increased ...
Behind every commercial or residential property in a regional insurer’s portfolio are people relying on their carrier to remain resilient...
Wolin Leaving as Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary
Deputy U.S. Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin, who has defended tighter financial regulation as necessary in the aftermath of the 2008 credit crisis, is stepping down at the end of August, according to ...
Long-Buried Seawall Protected Homes From Hurricane Sandy’s Record Storm Surge
Picture two residential beach communities on the New Jersey shore: Bay Head and Mantoloking, which side-by-side in Ocean County on a narrow barrier island that separates the Atlantic Ocean and ...
U.S. SEC Says As Red Flags Waved, SAC’s Cohen Waved Them
"Failure to supervise" is not the sort of charge that typically grabs Wall Street's attention. Unless the target is one of the world's best-known hedge fund managers. In an order on Friday, the U.S. ...
Nasdaq Forum Website Hacked, Passwords Compromised
Cyber-criminals targeted Nasdaq OMX Group's community forum website and gained access to the email usernames and passwords of the members of the site, which took two days to come back online on ...
SEC Readies Rule on Disclosure of CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios
Public companies would be required to disclose how much more their chief executives are paid than rank-and-file workers under a rule to be proposed next month by U.S. securities regulators, according ...
P/C Industry Told TRIA Extension Will Not Pass In Time For January Renewals
The property/casualty insurance industry should not count on Congress reauthorizing the federal terrorism reinsurance program this year or in time for January renewals, according to a key insurance ...