August 23, 2024
Alliant Insurance Services, headquartered in Irvine, California, hired Peter Miraglia as executive vice president, Alliant Specialty, within the company’s mergers & acquisitions vertical. Miraglia brings over three decades of insurance industry experience with specialized expertise in private equity transactions. Based …
August 22, 2024
Hiscox Ltd. issued a statement confirming that the insurer’s chair, Jonathan Bloomer, and Bloomer’s wife, Judy, died in the tragic sinking of the yacht Bayesian off the coast of Sicily on Monday, Aug. 19. “We are deeply shocked and saddened …
August 21, 2024
Italian search and rescue teams have retrieved a fifth body from a sunken yacht off Sicily, where British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and Morgan Stanley International chair Jonathan Bloomer are among those feared to have died. The body was recovered …
August 20, 2024
Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer is among those missing, along with UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, as Italian authorities continue to search the wreckage of the luxury yacht that sank during a storm off the coast of Sicily. Specialist …
August 13, 2024
Hiscox, the global specialist insurer, has launched the London insurance market’s first lead underwriting platform enhanced by generative AI, aiming to provide sabotage and terrorism insurance quotes to customers faster and more efficiently than ever before. Initially developed as a …
May 2, 2024
Lloyd’s of London insurers Hiscox and Lancashire do not expect large insurance claims from the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March that caused widespread disruption, they said on Thursday. Some estimates for the total insured losses from …
April 25, 2024
Re/insurer Ariel Re and Hiscox Re & ILS, the reinsurance and insurance linked securities arm of insurer Hiscox, announced the launch of CyberShock, a cyber catastrophe consortium. The CyberShock consortium is designed to offer up to US$50 million of per-program …
December 12, 2023
Hiscox, the specialist global insurer, has collaborated with Google Cloud to create the first AI-enhanced lead underwriting model in the London market insurance industry. The collaboration combines Hiscox London Market’s recently built technology platform, Hiscox AI Laboratories (Hailo) with Google …
October 11, 2023
Small businesses may be growing their revenue, but the vast majority – 75% – are not adequately protecting themselves and their assets. Small businesses are an essential part of the US economy, with 56 million workers employed at firms with …
September 27, 2023
Hiscox Ltd., the Bermuda-headquartered specialist insurer, announced it has entered into an agreement to sell DirectAsia, its motor insurance business in Singapore and Thailand, to Ignite Thailand Holdings Ltd., the parent of the Roojai group of companies. The transaction is …