Yearly Archives: <span>2023</span>

Ping An Loses $3.1 Billion in Value on Country Garden Buy Report

A report that Chinese authorities asked Ping An Insurance Group Co. to rescue Country Garden Holdings Co. sent the insurer’s stock sliding, wiping out $3.1 billion from its valuation. Distressed developer Country Garden, on the other hand, jumped 12% to …

Two-Thirds of North America Could Face Power Shortages This Winter

More than half of the U.S. and parts of Canada, home to around 180 million people, could fall short of electricity during extreme cold again this winter due to lacking natural gas infrastructure, the North American Electric Reliability Corp (NERC) …

NTSB Chair: Near-Miss Aviation Incidents ‘Clear Warning Sign’

An increase in serious near-miss aviation incidents is a “clear warning sign that the U.S. aviation system is sharply strained,” National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) chair Jennifer Homendy will tell a U.S. Senate panel on Thursday. Homendy, who will testify …

AM Best Outlook of US E&S Market Revised to ‘Positive’

Insurance industry rating agency AM Best has upped its view of the excess and surplus market as it continues to absorb business from the admitted market. AM Best on Monday changed its U.S. E&S outlook from “stable” to “positive,” considering …

Fed Judges Ask Florida Supreme Court to Decide if Insurers Can Sue Auto-Glass Shops

The Florida Legislature earlier this year struck a mighty blow for auto insurers in their years-long fight against windshield repair shops, ending assignment-of-benefits and the practice of offering gifts to insureds. Now, the Florida Supreme Court could soon decide another …

Judge Trims U.S. Lawsuit Accusing Drug Distributor of Fueling Opioid Epidemic

A federal judge on Monday pared back a U.S. government lawsuit accusing drug distributor Cencora, formerly called AmerisourceBergen, of fueling the nation’s deadly opioid epidemic by failing to report hundreds of thousands of suspicious orders of prescription painkillers. U.S. District …

People Moves: C3 Risk & Insurance Services in California Names Molina EVP

C3 Risk & Insurance Services, headquartered in San Diego, Calif., named Marife Molina executive vice president of strategic revenue. Molina comes to C3 Risk & Insurance Services from Chubb, where she served as senior vice president, regional leader of its …

The Value of Combining Models in Wildfire Risk Management

This post is part of a series sponsored by CoreLogic. Welcome to the final installment of our four-part series on wildfire hazard and risk management where we will explore the optimal use of CoreLogic’s wildfire risk models within the insurance …

Higginbotham Expands Collegiate Athletics Investment With LEARFIELD, Adds 10 Southern Universities to Portfolio

Higginbotham announced the expansion of its multi-year investment in collegiate athletics to include ten universities in the southern region of the United States through its continued sponsorship agreement with LEARFIELD, a media and technology company that partners with college athletic …

NAMIC Webinar Recap: Solving for Producer Compliance in Property & Casualty Insurance

This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Insights from NAMIC’s compliance webinar presented by AgentSync Solutions Architect Sandy Allen Did you know there were more than 250 changes to insurance regulations in the U.S. just last year? …