March 6, 2018
Power is slowly being restored in the hardest hit areas of the East Coast, days after a destructive nor’easter downed trees and power lines, flooded coastal towns and forced a number of school districts to cancel classes – all with …
March 6, 2018
SIAA (Strategic Insurance Agency Alliance) has hired Dan Smith as director of enterprise applications, a new position at its Hampton, N.H., location. SIAA is a national alliance of more than 6,750 signed independent insurance agency members. Enterprise systems technology in …
March 6, 2018
DARAG Group Ltd., a leading European legacy acquirer, it has acquired IKANO Försäkring AB, the Sweden-based insurance company. The transaction provides the owner of the Swedish insurer with legal and economic finality in relation to all its insurance business and …
March 6, 2018
EC Insurance Company Ltd. (ECIC), the specialist insurer for the contracting market, has begun the process of transferring business over to Markel International Insurance Co. Ltd. (MIICL), following ECIC’s acquisition by Markel in November 2017. Sevenoaks, England-based ECIC provides insurance …
March 6, 2018
Kobe Steel Ltd said on Tuesday its CEO will step down to take responsibility for a widespread data fraud scandal, although doubts remain over a corporate culture mired in malfeasance and the possibility of future fines. Japan’s third-largest steelmaker, which …
March 6, 2018
AXA SA’s pursuit of its biggest ever takeover really got serious at a romantic hotel on the shores of Lake Zurich. That’s where top executives of the French behemoth and XL Group Ltd., fresh from the annual gathering of the …
March 6, 2018
The final estimate of insured property market losses for extratropical cyclone Zeus, which mainly hit France last year on March 6-7, have been revised to €272 million (US$335.1 million), according to PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization that provides industry-wide catastrophe …
March 6, 2018
Sompo International announced it will launch a specialty insurance underwriting operation in Barcelona, Spain. Sompo currently has a London-based operation but must open EU-based headquarters in order to conduct business seamlessly after the U.K. exits the European Union. It has …
March 6, 2018
U.K. politicians are demanding law and accounting firms revise figures on how male and female staff are remunerated amid criticism that their partnership structures let them understate the gender pay gap. British companies with more than 250 employees have until …
March 6, 2018
Digital agency Pie Insurance said it is ready to start selling its workers’ compensation policies in four states this month, with a goal of operating in as many as 20 states by the end of 2018. The startup that claims …