EU-Based Britons Fuel Growth in Healthcare Insurance as Post-Brexit Fears Grow October 17, 2019 By Carolyn Cohn, Isla Binnie and Maya Nikolaeva Some Britons living in the Europe Union are worried about losing access to free healthcare after Brexit, opening up a...
Holocaust Survivors Want Congress to Let Them Sue Insurers Over Nazi-Era Losses October 10, 2019 By Curt Anderson When David Schaecter was a child in Slovakia in the 1930s, he counted more than 100 people in his extended...
Hard Brexit Would Have ‘Significant Impact’ on U.K., Europe: Allianz Global Investors October 9, 2019 By Nishant Kumar Andreas Utermann has long brushed off the risk of a hard Brexit, arguing even a managed separation would be a...
Allianz Emerges as Frontrunner to Invest in Bancassurance Unit of Spanish Lender BBVA October 1, 2019 By Pamela Barbaglia, Alexander Hübner and Jesús Aguado German insurer Allianz has emerged as the frontrunner to invest in the bancassurance business of Spanish lender BBVA, two sources...
Insurers to Offer up to $5B in Capacity to Hike Developing Nations’ Climate Resilience September 25, 2019 By Katherine Chiglinsky Insurers are partnering with the United Nations and other public groups to help the poorest countries bounce back from natural...
Allianz, MS&AD, Other Suitors in Race to Buy Aviva’s Asia Units for Up to $2.5B: Sources September 24, 2019 By Sumeet Chatterjee and Anshuman Daga German insurer Allianz, Nippon Life and MS&AD Insurance are vying with rivals to buy the Singapore and Vietnam businesses of...
Allianz to Buy SulAmérica’s Auto, Other P/C Insurance Operations August 23, 2019 Allianz has agreed to acquire automobile and other property/casualty insurance operations from Brazil’s SulAmérica for BRL 3 billion (667 million...
Insurers Pressured to Drop Coverage of Canada’s Oil Sands Pipeline August 8, 2019 By Valerie Volcovici A coalition of 32 environmental and indigenous groups on Thursday urged insurers to stop underwriting the Trans Mountain pipeline to...
Space Insurance Premiums Could Double After European Vega Rocket Crash July 31, 2019 By Carolyn Cohn, Tom Sims and Noor Zainab Hussain Space rockets and satellites are likely to cost more to insure after the European Vega rocket crash this month, which...
Generali Is Front-Runner to Buy Portugal Insurer Tranquilidade: Sources July 1, 2019 By Jan-Henrik Förster and Manuel Baigorri Assicurazioni Generali SpA has emerged as the front-runner to acquire Apollo Global Management’s Tranquilidade, the second-largest non-life insurer in Portugal,...