Insurers Tracking Fitness: Too Accurate for Comfort? April 9, 2015 By Megan McArdle, Bloomberg View Someday soon, Big Brother may be watching you. Only his name will be “John Hancock.” The insurer is rolling out...
Hastings Weighs IPO as U.K. Car Insurer Gains Market Share April 9, 2015 By Sarah Jones Hastings Insurance Group increased its customer base by 20 percent in 2014, boosting profitability and setting the U.K. car insurer...
Ex-Massey Mine CEO: ‘I Don’t Want to Go to 100 Funerals’ April 9, 2015 By Phil Milford Former Massey Energy Co. Chief Executive Officer Donald Blankenship, facing criminal trial over an April 2010 explosion that killed 29...
AXA Strategic Ventures Invests in ‘Big Data’ Startup Company, Evercontact April 9, 2015 AXA Strategic Ventures* has made a $1 million investment in the French tech startup company Evercontact, a cloud service that...
ASEAN Open Market Will Benefit Region’s Insurance Industry: Best’s Report April 9, 2015 While the planned year-end timeline for 10 Southeast Asia nations forging ahead under a single, open economic market appears to...
Feds Seek Unified Approach with Insurers to Cyber Threats April 9, 2015 By Mark Hollmer The federal government has the backs of insurers and their clients as they seek to protect themselves from, and adapt...
Beazley, Korean Re Form Partnership; Create Special Purpose Lloyd’s Syndicate April 9, 2015 Beazley and Korean Re announced a partnership to develop business together and to establish a special purpose syndicate at Lloyd’s,...
Willis Urges Energy Underwriters to Innovate to Survive April 9, 2015 Willis Group Holdings is urging energy insurers to increase innovation and offer buyers a wider range of new products and...
Windstorm Niklas Was Costliest Non-U.S. Event in Q1 2015: Impact Forecasting April 9, 2015 Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development team, released the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which...
New North Carolina Medical Fees Expected to Save on Work Comp April 9, 2015 By Amy O'Connor Revised medical fees approved in February by the North Carolina Industrial Commission and planned to take effect this year are...