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European Researchers See AI as Building Better Weather Data
European scientists who feed critical climate data to industry and researchers said that their next great breakthrough in weather forecasting will be powered by artificial intelligence. The European ...
InsurTech Joshu Raises $3.7M for Commercial Insurance Digital Platform
The InsurTech Joshu raised $3.7 million in seed funding to advance its digital tools designed to help carriers and MGAs bring their commercial insurance business online. Blumberg Capital led the ...
Specialty E&S Insurer Upland Capital Makes Its Debut
Upland Capital Group has become the latest specialty insurance business in the marketplace. The Dallas-based operation plans to offer a diversified portfolio of excess and surplus lines casualty, ...
Tyson Foods Will Fork Over $221.5M for Chicken Price-Fixing Claims
Tyson Foods Inc said on Wednesday it will pay $221.5 million to settle litigation by three groups of plaintiffs that accused it of illegally conspiring to inflate chicken prices. The settlements with ...
Most Global Catastrophe Economic Losses Unaddressed by Insurance
There were 416 natural catastrophe events globally in 2020 that resulted in economic losses of $268 billion – 8% above the average annual losses for this century, according to insurance broker ...
Executives On The Move at Lloyd’s, AIG and AGCS
Lloyd's of London hired an executive to fill its first-ever Chief of Markets position. AIG has a new head of Media & External Communications. Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE named a ...
Data Provider CoreLogic Reportedly Attracts Two Possible Suitors
CoStar Group Inc. and a private equity group led by Warburg Pincus are the final bidders competing for data provider CoreLogic Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. CoreLogic, which is ...
Intel Investigates Hack of Quarterly Earnings Graphic
Intel Corp said on Thursday that it was investigating reports that a graphic in its quarterly earnings statement had been the object of unauthorized access before publication. "Once we became aware ...