All the headlines from our Willis Towers Watson Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 15 2020 // BRUSSELS – Aon’s $30 billion bid for Willis Towers to create the world’s largest insurance broker faces a full-scale investigation because of its complexity, two people familiar with the matter said.The...
Dec 3 2020 // A study showing rates for Texas’ insurer of last resort for communities along the Texas coast are inadequate by 26% for residential policies and 44% for commercial properties has been forwarded to the board of the...
Dec 2 2020 // AXIS Re, the reinsurance business segment of AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd., announced the hiring of David Bangs as head of Japan. Bangs joins AXIS Re from Willis Re Singapore where he served as executive director. Prior to...
Nov 9 2020 // Private equity firm Cinven and GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, have agreed to acquire London-based specialist insurance and (re)insurance broker Miller from its partners and corporate member, Willis Towers...
Oct 28 2020 // Insurtech funding saw the largest number of deals and the highest amount of funding since data recording into insurtech began, with $2.5 billion raised by insurtech firms across 104 deals during the third quarter,...
Oct 15 2020 // Willis Towers Watson, the global advisory, broking and solutions company, announced the appointment of Tony Rooke as director of Climate Transition Risk in the organization’s Climate and Resilience Hub (CRH).With...
Sep 24 2020 // The Texas Windstorm Insurance Association’s actuarial and underwriting committee is seeking more data from TWIA staff and an actuarial consulting firm on rate adequacy and catastrophe modeling for potential hurricane...
Sep 21 2020 // U.S. commercial property/casualty insurance prices rose during the second quarter of 2020 by almost 10% compared with prices charged during the same quarter of 2019.Excess/umbrella and directors’ and officers’...
Sep 8 2020 // U.S. commercial property/casualty insurance prices rose during the second quarter of 2020 by almost 10% compared with prices charged during the same quarter of 2019.Excess/umbrella and directors’ and officers’...
Sep 7 2020 // Aon, Wills Towers WatsonShareholders of insurance brokers Aon and Willis Towers Watson have approved all of the proposals necessary to complete their previously announced combination, the firms announced. Aon intends to...
Sep 1 2020 // Global advisory and brokerage company Willis Towers Watson announced the appointment of Jeff Van Kley as senior director within its Insurance Consulting and Technology business. Van Kley will be responsible for driving...
Aug 26 2020 // Shareholders of insurance brokers Aon and Willis Towers Watson have approved all of the proposals necessary to complete their previously announced combination, the firms announced.Aon intends to combine with Willis in an...
Aug 20 2020 // Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter & Co. has named Jeffrey Livingston as global head of Sales, effective September 1. Livingston will also join the Guy Carpenter Executive Committee.In this newly created role, Livingston...
Aug 19 2020 // Global broker Willis Towers Watson announced the appointment of Mark Russell-Vick as its new head of broking for its Financial, Executive and Professional (Finex) line of business in Great Britain within its Corporate Risk...
Aug 19 2020 // The construction industry may emerge from the pandemic strong or relatively unscathed compared to other segments of the economy. But it also faces its share of challenges in managing exposures, delays, added costs and...
Aug 13 2020 // Willis Towers Watson announced the appointment of Fiona Shaw as its new head of data, analytics and innovation for its Global Fac division.Shaw has extensive insurance, reinsurance and analytics experience having spent...
Aug 11 2020 // Aon plc and Willis Towers Watson announced that two leading proxy advisory firms have recommended that shareholders vote in favor of the companies’ proposed combination.Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS)...
Aug 10 2020 // Following the COVID-19-induced slowdown in global insurtech investment during the first months of 2020, insurtechs raised $1.56 billion during the second quarter.The total, up 71% over Q1, was driven in part by later-stage...
Jul 28 2020 // Following the COVID-19-induced slowdown in global insurtech investment during the first months of 2020, insurtech firms raised $1.56 billion during the second quarter.The total, up 71% over Q1, was driven in part by...
Jul 16 2020 // Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter & Co. announced the launch of Hybrid Solutions UK, a division of GC Fac, and the appointment of Laurence Upton, formerly with Willis Towers Watson in London, to lead the new...