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W.R. Berkley Corp. Sells NYC Office Complex for $105M Pre-Tax Net Gain
W.R. Berkley Corp. sold off one of its real estate investments – a New York City office complex – at the end of 2020. The sale generated a $105 million pre-tax net gain, according to the ...
Online Selling Platform Apollo Insurance Solutions Pulls in a $13.5M Financing Round
Apollo Insurance Solutions Ltd., a Toronto-based online insurance platform, said it has closed an oversubscribed $13.5 million Series A financing round. The funding exceeded its original $4 million ...
SolarWinds Hackers Linked to Known Russian Spying Tools
The group behind a global cyber-espionage campaign discovered last month deployed malicious computer code with links to spying tools previously used by suspected Russian hackers, researchers said on ...
Executives On The Move at Great American and Markel
Great American Insurance Group promoted a rising executive within its Property & Casualty Group. A former Allianz executive joined Markel Corp. as Environmental Product Line Leader. *** Great ...
Boeing Will Pay $2.5B to Resolve U.S. Criminal Probe of 737 MAX Crashes
Boeing Co will pay more than $2.5 billion in fines and compensation after reaching a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice over two plane crashes that killed a total of 346 people and led to ...
2020 Temperatures Rounded Off Hottest Decade, Hit Record
Last year tied with 2016 as the world's warmest on record, rounding off the hottest decade globally as the impacts of climate change intensified, the European Union's Earth observation service said ...
No Insurance: Taxpayers on Hook for U.S. Capital Mob Attack Damage
U.S. taxpayers will be on the hook for damage from a mob attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Wednesday because the building and grounds are not insured, industry sources said. Supporters of ...
Goosehead Insurance Axes Employee Involved in Storming of Capital
Texas-based personal lines insurance agency Goosehead Insurance has fired an employee who participated in the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6. According to a posting on Goosehead's Twitter account, ...