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Facebook Risks UK Legal Action in Cambridge Analytica Scandal
Facebook Inc. risks being dragged into a UK legal dispute involving almost 1 million British users affected by the Cambridge Analytica scandal, two years after revelations about the misuse of private ...
Insurers Back Biden More Than Trump, Give More Money to Republican Congressional Candidates
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has received more funds from insurance industry political committees than President Donald Trump in this 2020 election cycle. Biden has received $5.5 ...
Global Regulator Claims Too Few Companies Disclose Climate Change Financial Hits
Too few companies specify their prospective financial hit from climate change under a voluntary global disclosure code that needs wider backing from asset managers and others to be fully effective, a ...
U.S. Businesses Stock Up on Insurance Cover Over Fears of Post-Election Chaos
Retailers, pharmacies, liquor stores and other merchants across the United States are gobbling up insurance that protects buildings from damage caused by societal unrest, worried about possible ...
Chubb CEO Greenberg: Hardening Market Is a ‘Very Healthy Trend’
Chubb Chairman and CEO Evan Greenberg looks around and sees a hardening market that is spreading and accelerating in multiple ways, something he termed as a long-overdue development. "I see it as a ...
Executives On The Move at QBE North America, The Hartford and W.R. Berkley Corp.
QBE North America filled two regional leadership roles with a promotion from within and a former AIG executive. The Hartford appointed a new board member. W.R. Berkley Corp. chose a new president of ...
Hurricane Zeta Brings Damaging Winds, Storm Surge to Louisiana
Hurricane Zeta was poised to crash into Louisiana on Wednesday with a "life-threatening storm surge" and winds that will reach far inland, the state's sixth lashing this year from a Gulf Coast storm. ...
InsurTech VC Breaks Records in Q3; Mid-Tier Startup Funding Shrinks
InsurTech funding saw the largest number of deals and the highest amount of funding since data recording into InsurTech began, with $2.5 billion raised by InsurTech firms across 104 deals during the ...