New York’s Cybersecurity Rules: What Insurance Professionals Should Know March 6, 2017 By JillAllison Opell and Ron Lebow The New York Department of Financial Services (DFS) has issued cybersecurity requirements for financial services companies (cyber rules) that went...
London Market’s Placing Platform, PPL, Expands Offering with Marine Lines March 6, 2017 PPL, the London market’s electronic placing platform, announced that marine business is now available to be bound on the PPL...
UK’s Pool Re Increases Reinsurance Cover to £2B ($2.5B) March 6, 2017 Pool Re announced it has increased its commercial reinsurance cover to £2 billion ($2.5 billion), compared with the £1.95 billion...
Chinese Watchdog Weighs Relaxing Rules for Big Insurers’ Overseas M&A March 6, 2017 By Julie Zhu and Sumeet Chatterjee China’s insurance regulator is considering an industry shake-up that could see the biggest and most solvent firms resuming an overseas...
BHSI Launches Accident & Health Solutions in Asia; Product Line Heads Named March 6, 2017 Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Co. (BHSI) announced it has introduced group personal accident, corporate travel and expatriate medical insurance in...
Scotland’s Standard Life to Buy Aberdeen Asset Management for $4.7B March 6, 2017 By Sarah Jones Standard Life Plc, Scotland’s largest insurer, agreed to acquire Aberdeen Asset Management Plc for about 3.8 billion pounds ($4.7 billion),...
Why Workers’ Compensation Is Especially Needed Now: Report from WCRI Conference March 6, 2017 By Andrew G. Simpson After decades of managing costs for employers, it’s time for workers’ compensation professionals and public policymakers to turn their attention...
EPIC Adds Duhe to Southeast Region Benefits Practice March 6, 2017 EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants has added Richard Duhe to the firm’s Southeast Employee Benefits Consulting Practice in Atlanta as...
Alabama Scientists Studying Use of Maps to Avoid Storms March 6, 2017 By Leigh Morgan, Al.com “We didn’t know it was coming.” April Taylor heard that again and again, and she didn’t understand it. Taylor, a...
Hub International Acquires Texas-Based Tri-Star Insurance March 3, 2017 Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired the assets of Tri-Star Insurance Professionals Inc. (Tri-Star) in Plano, Texas. Terms of the...