The Promise of Telemedicine to Pare Health Costs August 12, 2014 Telemedicine could potentially deliver more than $6 billion a year in health care savings to U.S. companies, but only if...
States Look to Kill-Switch Laws to Stem Smartphone Thefts August 12, 2014 By Sharon Bernstein All smartphones sold in California would have to come with a “kill switch” to render them inoperable if lost or...
House Republicans Not Planning to Address Export-Import Bank Reauthorization August 12, 2014 By Mark Felsenthal Reauthorization of the U.S. Export-Import Bank was left off a list of items that the No. 2 Republican in the...
Tiptree Financial to Acquire Insurance Services Firm Fortegra for $218M August 12, 2014 Holding company Tiptree Financial Inc. said it will acquire Fortegra Financial Corp., a Florida-based insurance services firm, in an all...
PERILS Issues 3rd Insured Loss Estimate for Windstorm Tini – $375 Million August 12, 2014 PERILS AG said its revised loss estimate for windstorm Tini, also known as Darwin, which affected Ireland and the United...
AJ Gallagher Acquires Assets of Caribbean Broker Minvielle & Chastanet August 12, 2014 Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced that it has acquired certain assets of Minvielle & Chastanet Insurance Brokers located in...
Typhoon Halong Inundates Japan: AIR Analysis August 12, 2014 Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide’s report on former Typhoon Halong notes that it was downgraded to a tropical storm before...
CNA Appoints Motamed Chairman of CNA Europe Board of Directors August 12, 2014 Thomas F. Motamed, chairman and chief executive of CNA Financial Corporation, has been appointed chairman of the CNA Insurance Company...
Fitch Raises Italy Insurance Market Outlook as 1st Half Betters Expectations August 12, 2014 By Mark Bentley Fitch Ratings has revised its outlook to stable from negative, reflecting expectations that insurers’ profit and capital adequacy will be...
XL Group’s Trade Receivables Insurance Team Grows in US and UK August 12, 2014 XL Group announced that it is addressing “businesses’ growing interest in Trade Receivables Insurance (TRI),” with the addition of “underwriting...