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LinkedIn Accused of Secretly Reading Apple Users’ Clipboard Content in New Suit
Microsoft Corp's LinkedIn was sued by a New York-based iPhone user on Friday for allegedly reading and diverting users' sensitive content from Apple Inc's Universal Clipboard application. According ...
Lloyd’s to Leave U.S. Admitted Market, Double Down on Reinsurance, E&S
Lloyd's announced it plans to stop accepting admitted market accounts in the U.S. in a year and focus on the U.S. reinsurance and excess and surplus (E&S) insurance market, where it is the market ...
W.R. Berkley Corp. Booked $85M in Q2 Pretax COVID-19-Related Catastrophe Losses
W.R. Berkley Corp. cautioned that its 2020 second quarter pretax catastrophe losses will reach $145 million, with more than half of that coming from COVID-19 related costs. Out of that total, $85 ...
S&P Welcomes Allstate’s $4B Bid for National General
Allstate Corp.'s plan to pay $4 billion for National General Holdings Corp. and become a dominant player in the independent agency channel drew a positive response from S&P Global Ratings. A few ...
Insurity Grabs Virtual MGA for an Undisclosed Price
Insurity said it has snatched up Virtual MGA, a Texas-based company with a cloud-based binding authority, underwriting and distribution product for wholesale brokers, syndicates and MGAs. The ...
What Reinsurance Execs Say About Social Inflation
While some observers reported a letup in social inflation during COVID-19 lockdown periods, reinsurance executives speaking at a recent conference said they fear U.S. jury verdicts and settlements ...
Managing Social Inflation: What Should Be in the Defense Playbook
Plaintiffs attorneys have honed skills for identifying cases destined to result in nuclear verdicts, a former defense attorney working for a reinsurance company said recently, describing their ...
Insurers Need Playbook to Slow Social Inflation; COVID Didn’t Do It
If liability insurers and defendants want to turn the tide of social inflation, they need to come together as teammates with a solid game plan, a reinsurance claims executive said recently. Agreeing ...