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McDonald’s Sued by Black Franchisees in New Discrimination Lawsuit
McDonald's Corp was hit on Thursday with a potentially multi-billion dollar lawsuit by Black franchise owners who accused the fast-food giant of racial discrimination for steering them to ...
Next Insurance Pursues New Financing Valuing the Startup at $2.25B
Next Insurance is in talks to raise new capital in a round that values the insurance technology startup at about $2.25 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Alphabet Inc.'s CapitalG ...
Price Casualty Like a Short-Tail Line: Swiss Re Exec
With low investment yields becoming a fact of life of insurers and reinsurers, breakeven combined ratios for casualty business won't cut it anymore, a reinsurance executive said recently. Jonathan ...
Middle Market Targeted in QBE NA Appetite
While resisting references to middle-market and large accounts, QBE NA CEO Todd Jones confirmed that the insurer is currently more relevant to the former than the latter during a recent interview. ...
Top Tech Mistakes for Insurers; Fixing What’s Not Broken Leads the List
Property/casualty insurance carriers embarking on massive projects because "the system is too old" are making one of the most common technology mistakes in the industry, according to an executive of ...
Managing Remote Workers
Don't look now, but the trend toward working remotely has just found solid footing in the form of a global pandemic. Companies around the world have been forced to conduct business in new ways since ...
The Unique Requirements of a Lloyd’s Syndicate-in-a-Box
Lloyd's developed the concept of a syndicate-in-a-box (SiaB) to make it easier for innovative capital to enter the market, but there are certain requirements and differences compared to traditional ...
Cyber InsurTech Sayata Labs Hires Flynn as Head of Insurance
An InsurTech designed to help brokers and carriers maximize their cyber business has hired a former Beazley Group executive in a leadership role. Israel- and Massachusetts-based Sayata Labs said it ...