Travelers’ Drone Program Is Changing the Way Its Claims Reps Do Business May 11, 2017 By Elizabeth Blosfield Travelers’ Claim University, founded in 2007, is working to change the way its claims professionals do business through the use...
Catalina Buys Hartford Financial Products Int’l, Downlands Liability Management May 11, 2017 Catalina Holdings (Bermuda) Ltd. announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Catalina Holdings UK Ltd., has completed its acquisition of Hartford...
Insurance Regulators Exploring Ways to Protect Consumers in Age of Big Data May 11, 2017 By Joseph S. Harrington, CPCU, ARP The incorporation of “Big Data” from Internet-based sources is a defining feature of underwriting and rating in today’s property/casualty insurance...
Allstate’s Encompass Insurance to Exit Massachusetts This Summer May 11, 2017 By Elizabeth Blosfield Encompass Insurance, an Allstate Insurance company that sells business through independent agents, outlined in its first quarter 2017 earnings news...
Transamerica Owner Aegon’s Profits Up; Shares Drop on Solvency Concerns May 11, 2017 Aegon, the Dutch insurer that does most of its business in the United States, on Thursday reported first-quarter net income...
TWFG Taps Cordone in New Jersey to Lead Expansion Efforts May 11, 2017 The Woodlands Financial Group (TWFG), a national agency based in The Woodlands, Texas, is launching an effort to expand into...
Insurance Sector Set to Overtake Banking in Switzerland May 11, 2017 By Joshua Franklin Switzerland’s financial center is in the midst of a power shift. The Alpine country’s less fashionable insurers, long overshadowed by...
Aon Names Hogg as Leader of Cyber Solutions, CEO of Stroz Friedberg May 11, 2017 Aon plc announced that Jason Hogg has joined the firm as leader of Aon Cyber Solutions, responsible for the growth...
Burns & Wilcox Names Posner Director of High Net Worth in California May 11, 2017 Burns & Wilcox has added Heather Posner as an associate vice president and director of its high net worth practice...
Judge Finds Alabama Workman’s Compensation Act Unconstitutional May 11, 2017 A judge has ruled that two statutes of the Alabama Workmans Compensation Act are unconstitutional, thereby rendering the entire act...