Intact Financial News

Resilience Cyber Closes $80M Funding Round to Further Expand Into Middle Market

Resilience, which offers cyber insurance and security solutions, reported that that it closed an $80 million Series C funding round as it plans for further middle market expansion and international growth. The funding round was co-led by General Catalyst and …

Canada’s Intact Financial Caps Decade of Acquisitions with $9.4 Billion RSA Deal

After a decade of buying up rivals to become Canada’s largest property and casualty insurer, Intact Financial Corp. is looking across the Atlantic with its biggest deal yet. Intact sealed an agreement Wednesday to buy the Canada, UK and international …

UK Insurer RSA Accepts $9.6 Billion Cash Takeover Offer

Canada’s Intact Financial and Denmark’s Tryg on Wednesday said they had reached an agreement to buy British insurance group RSA for 7.2 billion pounds ($9.6 billion) in cash in one of Europe’s biggest financial takeovers this year. Insurers have become …

The $9.5 Billion Takeover Offer for RSA May Be Too Good to Refuse: Opinion

A takeover offer that would have been so-so in February becomes impossible to refuse for a company whose shares have been hit by the pandemic. The 7.2 billion-pound ($9.5 billion) approach for RSA Insurance Group has been shrewdly pitched by …

Update: UK Insurer RSA Receives $9.4B Takeover Offer From Intact Financial, Tryg

RSA is in talks with a consortium of Canadian insurer Intact Financial and Danish insurer Tryg about a possible break-up deal that values the British firm at about 7.2 billion pounds ($9.46 billion). RSA said its board would be minded …

Alberta Wildfire Could Become Canada’s Costliest Natural Catastrophe

A wildfire in the Alberta city of Fort McMurray is set to become the costliest ever Canadian natural disaster for insurers, with 1,600 buildings destroyed and another 19,000 under threat, analysts and industry sources say. The bill for insurers is …

Canada’s Intact Financial Corp. Invests in Metromile, Pay-Per-Mile Insurer

Intact Financial Corp. has made a strategic investment in Metromile, a San Francisco-based provider of pay-per-mile car insurance. Toronto-based IFC, which is the largest provider of property & casualty insurance in Canada, said the venture is in line with its …

Canadian P&C Insurer Intact Financial’s 3rd Quarter Profit Rises

Intact Financial Corp., Canada’s largest property and casualty insurer, reported a more than four-fold rise in quarterly profit, helped by a sharp fall in catastrophe losses. The company’s profit last year was hurt by severe rain storms in the Toronto …

AXA Completes Sale of Canadian Operations

France’s AXA Group announced that it has successfully completed the sale of its Canadian operations in Property & Casualty and Life & Savings insurance to Intact Financial Corporation for a total cash consideration of C$2.6 billion (€1.9 billion; US$2.524 billion). …

Best Places AXA Canada, Intact Financial Ratings under Review

A.M. Best announced a number of rating actions as a result of the announcement on May 31 that that Intact Financial Corporation (IFC) has signed a definitive agreement to purchase 100 percent of the stock of AXA Canada Inc. Best …