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Specialty P/C Insurers More Likely to See Business Interruption Losses: Analyst

The original property/casualty insurance industry reaction that business interruption losses may be modest may have been too optimistic, according to a leading insurance analyst. KBW's Meyer Shields ...

AIG’s New CEO After Hancock? Someone From Outside Might Be Better

With AIG CEO Peter Hancock on his way out the door after failing to reverse the insurer's fortunes, some see the board turning to an outside replacement rather than an internal candidate in what ...

Assessing Reinsurers: It’s About Talent, Not Capital

The movement of third-party capital into the reinsurance space was a constant theme of a recent seminar during which A.M. Best SVP Matt Mosher predicted that reinsurers will ultimately evolve into ...

Analysts Debate: Are Insurers, Reinsurers Too Risk Averse?

Have property/casualty insurers and reinsurers forgotten what they're in business to do? That was one of the questions that three industry analysts debated during a recent reinsurance seminar, when ...

Endurance Building ‘Relevance’ Through Leadership Changes, CFO Says

Armed with the overstuffed Rolodex of its new CEO, John Charman, Endurance Specialty Holdings is moving into new markets like a startup, the company's chief financial officer suggested at an investor ...

AIG Moves Quickly to Replace Key Execs Lured by Berkshire

American International Group (AIG) announced replacements for three of the four high-level executives who jumped ship last Friday to join Berkshire Hathaway insurance operations and potentially ...