Claims & Reserving
JPMorgan Will Fork Over $200M to Resolve Asia Hiring Probes
JPMorgan Chase and Co is expected to pay about $200 million to settle criminal and civil probes over its Asian hiring practices, according to a person familiar with the matter. A settlement, which ...
Counts Reduced Against Group Charged in BP Oil Spill Fraud Case
A Texas lawyer and six co-defendants are now facing a reduced indictment of 73 charges, instead of 95, at federal trial on accusations that they faked more than 40,000 damage claims after the BP oil ...
XL Group, Chubb and More Reveal High Q2 Cat Loss Estimates
Canadian wildfires, European floods, Japan and Ecuador earthquakes and U.S. hailstorms over the spring were dramatic enough at the time. Now, the damage these events left behind are leading a number ...
New Gen Re CEO Raiguel Strikes Broker Deal With TransRe
Gen Re, the unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. that appointed a new chief executive officer in May, struck a deal with a rival reinsurer to help revive sales. Alleghany Corp.'s TransRe ...
A Nearly 20% Workers Comp Rate Increase Proposed by NCCI in Florida
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) announced July 1 that the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) filed an amended rate filing to address a third legal change affecting ...
Lightning Could Threaten Millions of Homes Built With a Type of Gas Tubing
Lightning strikes occur approximately 25 million times each year in the U.S., as reported by the National Severe Storms Laboratory. As summer approaches, storm producing lightning strikes could ...
PCI Urges Consideration of Firefighting Funding Reform Bill
The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America is throwing its support behind a bill first proposed in 2015 that would make supplemental federal funding to fight wildfires a more flexible and ...
W.R. Berkley Chairman Urges Greater Carrier/Agent Cooperation on Lowering Costs
Partnership and greater efficiency will help lead the way to continued profitability for the property/casualty insurance industry despite a new level of uncertainty globally, according to William R. ...