Monthly Archives: <span>July 2021</span>

People Moves: Westchester Promotes McLaughlin; New Hires at Insurity, Lockton

Insurity Appoints Campestre as Chief Sales Officer Insurity, a provider of cloud-based software for insurance carriers, brokers and managing general agencies, appointed Craig Campestre as chief sales officer. Campestre will lead Insurity’s sales strategy and operations, which includes driving revenue …

NY Attorney General Reaches $1.1B Agreement with Three Opioid Distributors

New York Attorney General Letitia James announced an agreement with McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health Inc. and Amerisource Bergen Drug Corporation that will deliver up to $1.1 billion to New York state to combat the ongoing opioid epidemic. The $1.1 billion …

Connecticut Regulators Finalize Fines for Utilities Over Isaias Response

Connecticut regulators finalized millions of dollars in fines against the state’s two largest electricity distributors for what officials called the companies’ failures in their preparations and responses to Tropical Storm Isaias, which caused hundreds of thousands of power outages last …

Travelers’ Q2 Profit Boosted by Higher Premiums, Lower Catastrophe Losses

U.S. property and casualty insurer Travelers Cos .Inc. delivered an unusually large beat of second-quarter profit expectations on Tuesday, helped by higher premiums, lower catastrophe losses and a surge in returns from investments. The New York-based company, seen as a …

People Moves: Miller’s Higgins Joins New Broker Inver Re; Hartford Hires AXA XL’s Brodzinski for Global Specialty; Bayman to MS Amlin for Aviation Reinsurance

This edition of International People Moves covers appointments at a new reinsurance broker, Ardonagh’s Inver Re; The Hartford’s Global Specialty business unit, and the aviation reinsurance division of MS Amlin Underwriting. A summary of these new hires follows here. The …

Surplus Lines Insurers Report 21.9% Premium Hike in First Half of 2021

Surplus lines premium exceeded $24 billion and premium bearing transactions exceeded 2.6 million through the first six months of 2021, according to the 2021 Midyear Report of the U.S. Surplus Lines Service and Stamping Offices by the Wholesale & Specialty …

People Moves: Aon Cyber Appoints Bixby; Guy Carpenter Adds 2 from Willis Re, Zywave Names 3 Senior Leaders

Hacking Expert Bixby Joins Aon Cyber Solutions Aon has appointed Adam Bixby as the new managing director, Proactive Security leader, for Cyber Solutions North America. Bixby is responsible for the Proactive Security practices, advisory and testing, leading business development, service …

German Floods Will Be Expensive but Unlikely to Burn Through Insurers’ Earnings: Fitch

The recent severe floods in Germany could add up to 5 percentage points to German non-life insurers’ net combined ratios (net claims and expenses to net premiums), according to Fitch Ratings. The insured losses are likely to be Germany’s highest …

U.S. Firms Operating in Hong Kong Face Risks, Warns American Chamber of Commerce

HONG KONG – U.S. businesses operating in Hong Kong should reassess their operations and decide if the risks of operating there are worth the reward, the president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong said in an interview …

Final Settlement for Brazil’s Samarco Mining Dam Disaster Could Reach $19 Billion

RIO DE JANEIRO – A definitive settlement with miner Samarco and owners, BHP Group and Vale SA, for the damage caused by a burst tailings dam in 2015 could reach 100 billion reais ($19.06 billion), the governor of the Brazilian …