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Price Increases Boost Chubb’s Premiums but Net Income Dips Slightly
Chubb's saw its net income dip slightly and its P/C combined ratio nudge higher during the 2019 second quarter, but price increases led to solid premium gains. "This quarter was about growth and ...
Lyft Releases Self-Driving Tech Data in Bid to Speed Its Development
Lyft Inc. is making research data on self-driving technology available to the public in a bid to accelerate the development of robotic cars, which is seen as critical to the ride-hailing giant's ...
New UK PM Johnson Has 100 Days to Deliver Brexit
Incoming Prime Minister Boris Johnson has 100 days to deliver on his promise of leading the U.K. out of the European Union. The Brexit deal his predecessor struck with the bloc is "dead," "defunct" ...
Travelers Boosted Q2 Net Income, Thanks to Lower Cat Losses and Investment Income Spike
The Travelers Companies managed to boost its net income to $557 million for the second quarter, six percent more than the $524 million in the prior year quarter. Lower catastrophe losses and higher ...
Startups Focused on Smart Home, Contract-Management AI Tech Secure Financing
Two startups have raised early stage financing designed to advance technology from which insurers can benefit. One company is developing smart home technology to help reduce claims risks. Another is ...
Updated: The Top 10 P/C Insurance Carrier CEO Salaries
Progressive Corp.'s Susan Patricia ("Tricia") Griffith earned the fifth-highest U.S. property/casualty insurance CEO salary in 2018, even as the company she runs landed in the top slot in terms of ...
Executives On The Move at AIG, Liberty Specialty Markets and Alliant
AIG hired a former pharmaceutical company executive to be its new Chief Human Resources Officer. Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, a former British cyber ...
Privacy Lawsuits Benefit Attorneys More than Consumers: Chamber Study
Statutes allowing plaintiff lawyers to enforce privacy laws through private rights of action are clogging courts and provide no real benefit to consumers, a report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's ...