Underwriting & Pricing
Liberty Mutual Is Pursuing Strategic Review of Pembroke Managing Agency
Liberty Mutual Insurance announced it is undertaking a strategic review of its London-based Pembroke Managing Agency Ltd., acquired through the lronshore purchase in May of 2017. The company has ...
InsurTech Startups Click2Sure, Jooycar, Attract New Financing
Greenlight Capital Re has invested in another startup, this time a digital insurance platform launched in South Africa. Miami-based private equity firm HCS Capital Partners said it has committed ...
Bank of England Urges Insurers, Financial Institutions to Form Credible Climate Change Plans
Britain's banks and insurers must come up with credible plans for protecting themselves against risks from climate change and may need to hold more capital, the Bank of England said on Monday. ...
FEMA Chief Calls for a Natural Disaster Preparation Focus on Insurance and ‘Resilience’
Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Brock Long angrily criticized the failure of citizens to heed evacuation warnings and leaders to better prepare for natural disasters such as ...
Act 2 of the InsurTech Revolution Is on Its Way
The digital revolution in insurance is about to begin its second act. Having in its first phase used science and technology to inspire a rethinking of insurance that is making insurance easier and ...
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty Reorganizes Alternative Risk Transfer Business
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) said it is reshaping its Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) business into two new specialist teams, a move responding to the growing importance of ...
Is the Reinsurance Cycle Dead or Just Dormant?
Many reinsurance executives have been left scratching their heads in surprise after last year's natural catastrophes, which cost a whopping $100 billion but ended up having very little impact on ...
Safeco Will Take Over Donegal Mutual’s Personal Lines Biz in 7 States
Donegal Mutual Insurance Co. is exiting the personal lines business in seven of the 22 states in which it does business and will transfer those personal lines accounts worth $25 million in premium to ...