Regulation & Compliance
AmTrust’s Financial Plans Earn A.M. Best Ratings Review With Negative Implications
AmTrust Financial Group's recent efforts to raise capital and stabilize its finances apparently aren't enough for A.M. Best, which placed the company's credit and financial strength ratings under ...
Whistleblowers Delay Reporting Fraud If Financial Reward Promised: Study
Financial awards can unintentionally discourage a whistleblower from reporting fraud in a timely manner by hijacking their moral motivation to do the right thing, according to a new study by ...
UK Regulator Launch Investigation of Wholesale Insurance Brokers
Britain's financial services industry regulator is to launch later this week a long-promised investigation into competition in the wholesale insurance broking market, where one top executive has ...
First Commercial Carrier Approved in California to Sell Cannabis Insurance
Since last year, Californians are allowed to grow and possess marijuana. Now, the most populous U.S. state has taken another step to bolster the cannabis business by deciding to give insurance cover ...
Commercial Insurance Reserve Charge, Hurricanes Drive $1.7B Loss for AIG’s Third Quarter
Highlighting the development as a "noteworthy item" in an earnings announcement Thursday night, American International Group reported prior-year loss reserve strengthening of $836 million before ...
Global Regs for Systemically Important AI Firms May Be Needed: FSB
Replacing bank and insurance workers with machines risks creating a dependency on outside technology companies beyond the reach of regulators, the global Financial Stability Board (FSB) said on ...
Q3 Catastrophe Fallout: XL Group’s Fitch Ratings Outlook Turns Negative
XL Group got smacked with a negative ratings outlook from Fitch Ratings, thanks to pre-tax natural catastrophe losses in Q3 that hit $1.48 billion. Fitch said it revised the ratings outlook to ...
Insurers Increasingly Anxious About Managing Risks: Wolters Kluwer Survey
Insurers appear to be increasingly anxious about their ability to manage risk across their lines of business, and much more concerned about regulation, according to Wolters Kluwer's new Regulatory ...