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Great American, VGM Insurance Launch Golf & Country Club Program

Great American Insurance Group’s Alternative Markets Division has launched a new program for golf and country clubs across the United States in conjunction with VGM Insurance Services. The program based out of Waterloo, Iowa, was awarded to Great American effective …

InsureTech Connect Delays Virtual Conference Until October for Networking Signups

Four days before it was scheduled to go live, organizers of the popular annual insurance and technology conference, InsureTech Connect, announced they are postponing the now virtual 2020 conference by one month, ITC will now run from Oct. 19- Oct. …

NFIP’s Flood Losses Expected to Be ‘Significant’ from Hurricane Sally: AM Best

Hurricane Sally is not expected to cause a major insurance loss – compared to events such as the ongoing wildfires in California, Oregon, and Washington, or Hurricane Laura, according to AM Best. As the storm was more of a flood …

Beazley Restructures U.S. Executive Risk Leadership Team

Beazley has restructured its Executive Risk leadership structure in the United States, which aims to support greater knowledge sharing and collaboration within the global executive risk teams and will focus on developing innovative insurance solutions that tackle the board-level risks …

Some Reinsurers Will Try Pandemic Exclusions for Casualty at Jan. 1 Renewals

Whether they are convinced that they absolutely need them or not, some reinsurers aim to try to put pandemic exclusions into casualty reinsurance contracts next year, a reinsurance broker representative revealed recently. Amanda Nguyen, U.S. Casualty Solutions Leader for Reinsurance …

Number of Landfalls of Big U.S. Storms Could Break 1916 Record

Hurricane Sally’s historic flooding of Florida and Alabama this week marked the eighth named storm to strike the continental U.S. this year, leaving the tally just one short of a record that dates back more than a century. With 10 …

Businesses Urge U.S. Insurers to Stop Insuring, Investing in Fossil Fuel Producers

A group of about 60 American businesses on Thursday urged their insurers to stop providing coverage to and investing in fossil fuel producers. In a letter, companies including outdoor-gear producer Patagonia and ice-cream maker Ben & Jerry’s, a unit of …

In a First, State Farm to Acquire Texas Nonstandard Auto Insurer GAINSCO

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. is acquiring Dallas-based nonstandard auto insurer, GAINSCO, in a $400 million cash transaction. It will be the first time in State Farm’s 98-year history that it has acquired an insurance company, the company said. …

NBIS Adds SCOR Companies as Market for Specialized Transport, Heavy Haul Industry

NBIS, a provider of specialty construction insurance and risk management will now offer coverage for the specialized transportation/heavy haul industry through a new market parntnership with the member companies of reinsurer SCOR. The specialized transportation business is defined as open …

Orloff to Replace Kelly as Head of Liberty Mutual Field Operations for Commercial Lines

Liberty Mutual announced that Marc Orloff has been named president, North American Field Operations, Global Risk Solutions (GRS) North America. Orloff replaces Shaun Kelly, who the company said has decided to leave the company. Kelly was named president of GRS …

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