D&O Insurers Urged to Adjust Rates, Underwriting for Risky Environment March 4, 2020 Directors and officers liability insurance has gotten trickier and will confront major new challenges over the next few years. Continued...
Risk Modeling Firm Verisk Cancels Live Event Over Virus, Goes Virtual for Cyber Seminar March 4, 2020 Insurance data analytics and risk modeling firm Verisk has converted its Cyber and Casualty Seminar scheduled for March 10 in...
Ford to Help Customers Connect to Allstate Insurance Driver Tracking Program March 4, 2020 By Katherine Chiglinsky Allstate Corp. struck a deal with Ford Motor Co. that will allow some of the automaker’s customers to share data...
Handshakes, Buffets Out. Otherwise It’s Insurance Conferences-as-Usual Amid Coronavirus. March 3, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson As the coronavirus and its COVID-19 disease spread, Insurance professionals going to industry conferences over the next few weeks and...
Chubb Enhances North American Claims Leadership with Hazelton, Watt March 3, 2020 Chubb has expanded its North America claims leadership team with two appointments: Bill Hazelton has been named head of Chubb...
Marsh Calls for Submissions for 2020’s Best Cybersecurity Products Designations March 3, 2020 Global insurance broker Marsh announced the 2020 opening of its Cyber Catalyst program that identifies cybersecurity products that cyber insurers...
Parametric Insurance Could Offer Hotels Relief from Coronavirus Cancellations March 3, 2020 By Noor Zainab Hussain and Carolyn Cohn Organizers of events called off because of the coronavirus are likely to miss out on insurance payouts because typical policies...
Fitch Sees Only ‘Modest Impact’ on U.S. P/C Insurance from Coronavirus March 3, 2020 The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is not currently anticipated to have a meaningful adverse impact on financial results reported by U.S....
Homes in Flood Plains May Be Overvalued by $34 Billion March 3, 2020 By Eric Roston At least 3.8 million U.S. homes lie in flood plains. Together, they may be overvalued by $34 billion. New research...
America’s Farmers Brace for Another Season of Costly River Flooding March 3, 2020 By Brian K. Sullivan For the second year in a row, much of the U.S. is primed to suffer multi-billion dollar flood losses, with...