Latest Carriers Headlines

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Aegon to Merge Dutch Arm With Insurer ASR Nederland in $4.9 Billion Deal

Oct 27 2022 // Aegon NV is combining its operations in the Netherlands with insurer ASR Nederland NV, in a bid for market dominance in the pension, life and non-life insurance sectors.Aegon agreed to a conditional deal for a total...

Rhode Island Bus Service, Health Insurer Sued Over Data Breach

Oct 27 2022 // Two people whose personal information was compromised in a data breach at Rhode Island’s public bus service that affected about 22,000 people sued the agency and a health insurer this week seeking monetary damages...

Carolina Company CFO Ordered to Pay Restitution to Insurer in $2 Million Embezzlement

Oct 26 2022 // The former chief financial officer for a Carolina-based manufacturing supply company must spend more than three years in prison and repay $2 million he embezzled, which includes payments made by the firm’s insurance...

New England Patriots Owner Alleges Insurer Fumbled Media Liability Claims

Oct 26 2022 // Kraft Sports and Entertainment, owner of the NFL’s New England Patriots, has sued Hiscox Insurance alleging the insurer has failed to respond under media liability insurance policies to multiple claims of copyright...

Florida High Court: Settlement Stands, Even Though Comp Insurer Named on Check

Oct 25 2022 // Adam Sounders agreed to settle his personal-injury lawsuit against a trucking company for $500,000, but pulled out of the deal when he received a settlement check that included a workers’ compensation lien holder as...

Re/Insurers Grapple With How to Respond to Claims From Nord Stream Pipeline Blasts

Oct 25 2022 // With the mystery of the blasts that destroyed undersea gas pipelines between Russia and Germany unsolved, Nord Stream 1’s insurers and reinsurers are grappling with how to respond to hundreds of millions of dollars...

Contractor Hits a Wall as Insurer Denies Rectification Coverage Claim

Oct 25 2022 // A Maryland general contractor has spent almost $10.5 million to fix an improperly installed concrete wall system in a school it was hired to build and wants its insurer to reimburse it under a rectification expense...

Few Insurers Offer Input on Future of the Federal Home Loan Bank System

Oct 24 2022 // Very few insurance companies showed up this month to talk about the future of the much-debated, 90-year-old Federal Home Loan Bank System, despite the fact that the system lends heavily to many large insurers at low...

Insurers Still Unclear How G-7 Sanctions on Russian Crude Oil Cargoes Will Work

Oct 24 2022 // Just six weeks before European Union sanctions on Russian oil come into effect, insurers are still unclear as to exactly how they will work.At the heart of the uncertainty is a continued lack of detail surrounding US-led...

Climate Change at Top of Insurers’ Concerns, Followed by War-Related Risks

Oct 24 2022 // Climate change remains at the top of insurance companies’ biggest concerns even as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine stokes geopolitical and energy-related fears within the industry.Global warming is considered as...

All The Latest Insurance Company Estimates: Hurricane Ian Losses

Oct 21 2022 // Just a few days into earnings season for the third quarter, a number of carriers have published loss estimates for insurance claims from Hurricane Ian, or prewarned investors about loss figures that will dent their bottom...

Taiwan’s Watchdog Says Insurers Have Enough Capital to Withstand COVID Claim Surge

Oct 21 2022 // Taiwan’s insurance industry has buffered itself against surging COVID claims after raising capital, the head of the island’s market regulator said.The property insurance companies have no problems fulfilling...

Global Natural Disasters Cost Insurers $99B in Q3, With Economic Losses of $227B: Aon

Oct 21 2022 // Global natural disaster events to the end of Q3 2022 caused total economic losses estimated minimally at $227 billion – of which $99 billion was covered by public and private insurers, which means that insured losses...

Insurers Increasingly Withdraw From Fossil Fuel Projects: Climate Activists’ Report

Oct 20 2022 // Insurance companies that have long said they’ll cover anything, at the right price, are increasingly ruling out fossil fuel projects because of climate change – to cheers from environmental campaigners.More than a...

Australia’s No. 1 Health Insurer Confirms Massive Data Breach, Theft of Patient Details

Oct 20 2022 // Australia’s biggest health insurer said on Thursday a criminal had apparently stolen customers’ medical information as part of a massive breach of data, fueling concern about a wave of high-profile cyber...

Australian Insurer Medibank Says Hackers Claim to Have Stolen Customer Data

Oct 19 2022 // Australia’s Medibank Private Ltd. said on Wednesday an unnamed hacker group had contacted it negotiate about customer data it claimed to have retrieved from the health insurer’s IT systems.The news comes six...

AXA to Acquire Spanish P/C Insurer GACM España for €310M

Oct 18 2022 // AXA announced that AXA Spain has entered into exclusive negotiations to acquire Groupe Assurances du Crédit Mutuel España (GACM España), a Spanish property/casualty and health insurer.Under the terms of the transaction,...

U.S. Treasury Proposes Climate Data Collection Rule for P/C Insurers

Oct 18 2022 // U.S. Treasury on Tuesday said it was proposing a new rule to collect data on climate-related risks from property and casualty insurers, one of the first concrete actions in a new push to beef up financial regulation to...

Insurers Win Key Parts of Stonegate COVID-19 Business Interruption Case: MS Amlin

Oct 17 2022 // Insurers have won key parts of a complex legal battle with British pubs group Stonegate, MS Amlin said after Monday’s judgment on the 1 billion pound ($1.13 billion) lawsuit against three top insurers over losses...

How Insurance Carriers Can Survive Hard CAT Property Markets

Oct 17 2022 // There’s no denying it — challenging times are coming for CAT property markets. Truthfully, they’re already here.As I type this article, Hurricane Ian (category 4) is hours away from a direct hit on...