Keeping Flood Insurance Above Water: Commentary January 25, 2018 By Mark Anquillare, Verisk Analytics With the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) currently set to expire on February 8, and many communities still recovering from...
P/C Insurers’ Bottom Line Should Benefit from Trump Tax Cut January 25, 2018 By Elizabeth Blosfield Federal tax reform was a big topic of discussion at the Insurance Information Institute’s 2018 P/C Joint Industry Forum, with...
Google Parent Alphabet Enters Cyber Security Market with Chronicle January 25, 2018 By Paresh Dave Alphabet Inc. launched a new business unit on Wednesday that will sell cyber security software to Fortune 500 companies, the...
Insured Natural Disaster Losses in 2017 Were 38% of Economic Costs of $353B: Aon January 24, 2018 Insured losses for last year’s 330 natural catastrophes reached US$134 billion, or 38 percent of their economic price tag of...
Lockton Promotes Goldstine to Lead U.S. Casualty Practice January 24, 2018 Global broker Lockton has appointed Debbie Goldstine to executive vice president and U.S. casualty leader. In this expanded role, Goldstine...
Beazley Adds Post-Breach Services to Cyber Coverage for Small, Mid-Sized Policyholders January 24, 2018 Beazley has further enhanced its Beazley Breach Response (BBR) coverage for small and mid-sized policyholders in the U.S. In conjunction...
In 2017, Labor Lawyers Raced to Settle Class Actions Before Trump Effect January 24, 2018 By Rebecca Greenfield While employers across the U.S. paid a record amount in settlements for workplace violations last year, don’t expect this to...
With $25 Million in New Funding, Home Insurtech Hippo to Expand January 24, 2018 By Mark Hollmer Insurtech Hippo has nailed down $25 million in new Series B funding, a cash infusion the provider of super-quick homeowners...
Express Scripts Fight Over Cyber Disclosure Reaches SEC January 24, 2018 By Robert Langreth and Anders Melin The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission will review a dispute between Express Scripts Holding Co. and New York State Comptroller...
$19 Billion in Potential Losses from Cloud Services Failure Mostly Uninsured: Lloyd’s, AIR January 23, 2018 By Suzanne Barlyn A cyber problem that temporary shuts down a top U.S. cloud computing provider could trigger as much as $19 billion...