How Judging Moral Character Is a Matter of Principle, Not Good Deeds May 10, 2017 People may instinctively know right from wrong, but determining if someone has good moral character is not a black and...
Berkshire Hathaway Goes Small with biBERK Online Commercial Site May 10, 2017 By Jonathan Stempel It has been decades since anyone thought of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc., or even its insurance operations, as “very,...
Chubb’s Smith to Succeed Herman as President of CNA Specialty May 9, 2017 CNA has appointed Kevin Smith as president and chief operating officer for CNA Specialty. Smith will succeed Mark Herman who...
Court Denies Shareholder Claim Against AIG Bailout Case Led by Starr’s Greenberg May 9, 2017 By Jonathan Stempel A federal appeals court threw out a ruling that the U.S. government illegally bailed out insurer American International Group Inc....
How P/C Insurers Fared in 2016 May 9, 2017 Private U.S. property/casualty insurers lost big in 2016, reporting a $4.7 billion net underwriting loss driven, in part, by significantly...
Wells Fargo Weighing Sale of Insurance Brokerage Business: Bloomberg May 9, 2017 By Matthew Monks Wells Fargo & Co. is weighing a sale of its insurance brokerage business, which could fetch about $2 billion, people...
Sterling Jewelers Settles EEOC Gender Bias Claims But Class Action Still Possible May 9, 2017 By Daniel Wiessner Sterling Jewelers Inc. has settled claims by a U.S. agency that it discriminated against female employees in pay and promotions,...
Will Technology Make Insurance Obsolete? May 9, 2017 By Joseph S. Harrington, CPCU, ARP “Will technology make insurance obsolete?” That was the stark question posed by William Hartnett, a former Microsoft and ACORD executive,...
Today’s Older Employees Not a Retiring Bunch May 9, 2017 By Stan Choe Retire by your mid-60s? How 1960s. More Americans age 65 and over are still punching the clock, and the last...
United Airlines Pressured to Pay Damages Over Death of Giant Rabbit May 9, 2017 By Dan Whitcomb The owners of a giant rabbit named Simon who was found dead after a United Airlines flight demanded on Monday...