Latest Advisen Headlines
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What Cyber Underwriters Miss: Small Businesses Aren’t Using MFA Correctly, Advisen Panel Says
Oct 31 2022 // As cyber threat actors continue to innovate and find new ways to increase their odds of success, panelists at the 2022 Advisen Cyber Risk Insights Conference urged underwriters to raise the stakes when assessing...
Zywave Snatches Up Advisen in Move to Accelerate Global Growth
Nov 17 2020 // Insurance technology company Zywave snatched up Advisen, a global insurance data provider, in a deal expected to fuel more rapid international growth. The acquisition includes Web Connectivity Ltd. (WCL), a UK-Based...
Court Lockdowns From COVID-19 May Turn the Social Inflation Tide
Jun 15 2020 // Defense attorney Ellen Greiper reported receiving more than the usual number of phone calls from plaintiffs attorneys last month, suggesting that the call dynamics could be signaling a COVID-driven change in social...
How COVID-19 Court Lockdowns May Turn the Social Inflation Tide
Jun 2 2020 // Defense attorney Ellen Greiper reported receiving more than the usual number of phone calls from plaintiffs attorneys earlier this month, suggesting that the call dynamics could be signaling a COVID-driven change in social...
$6 Million Invested in New U.S. Wholesale Broker XPT Led by Veterans Ruggieri, Smith
Jun 20 2017 // London-based private equity firm B.P. Marsh & Partners has invested $6 million in a startup New York-based specialty lines insurance distributor that is headed by several well-known wholesale insurance executives. The...
Smaller Firms Showing Interest in Cyber Liability Coverage: Aspen’s Vitale
Dec 15 2014 // Cyber liability insurance isn’t just for large corporations anymore. Demand for cyber liability insurance is now coming from middle-sized and small businesses, according to an insurance CEO who believes the market...
Keogh Named Advisen CEO, Succeeding Ruggieri
Oct 12 2014 // Former Eqecat, Tiger Risk and RMS executive William Keogh has been named CEO of data and analytics company Advisen Ltd. The company said Keogh will start at Advisen on October 20, following the departure of former CEO and...
People – South Central
Oct 6 2014 // The board of directors of the Surplus Lines Stamping Office of Texas (SLSOT) announced that Philip R. Ballinger is retiring as executive director as of Jan. 2, 2015. Ballinger has been with SLSOT for 22 years and has been...
Advisen’s Ruggieri Replaces Hooper as North America CEO for Cooper Gay Swett Crawford
Sep 15 2014 // Global wholesale and reinsurance broker Cooper, Gay, Swett & Crawford said that Thomas P. Ruggieri will join the company as chief executive officer and president of the North American operations effective Oct....
Advisen: Historians May See 2013 as ‘Cyber Tipping-Point’
Nov 4 2013 // Historians may look at the year 2013 as a “cyber tipping-point” — the point at which businesses and governments finally realized the severity of the threats they were facing, according to Advisen, a New...
Advisen: Historians May See 2013 as ‘Cyber Tipping-Point’
Oct 28 2013 // Historians may look at the year 2013 as a “cyber tipping-point” — the point at which businesses and governments finally realized the severity of the threats they were facing, according to Advisen, a New...
Zurich/Advisen Poll Finds Cyber Risk Awareness Increasing
Nov 6 2012 // A note from Zurich Insurance indicates that the “vast majority of risk professionals say information security and other cyber risks are at least a moderate threat to their organizations,” according to a new...
Advisen in New York Hires 2 Execs to Lead New Analytics Unit
Apr 16 2012 // Advisen Ltd., an insurance analytics and market information provider headquartered in New York, appointed Seth Rachlin and John Pagliaccio to lead the newly formed information and analytics business unit. As president of...
Securities Litigation On Track to Set New Record in 2011: Advisen
Apr 19 2011 // Securities suit filings are on track to set a new record in 2011 once again. Following on the heels of the credit crisis, which sparked record-setting litigation in 2008 and 2009, 2010 set yet a new record at 1,293 suits...
Securities Lawsuits Set New Record Despite Slowdown in Credit Crisis
Jan 21 2011 // The number of securities lawsuits filed in 2010 edged above the record number of suits filed in 2009, despite an easing of litigation related to the credit crisis. The number of new suits related to the recent credit...
Risk Managers Continue to Report Soft Market Pricing
Apr 15 2010 // Seven years and running, the soft market shows few signs of loosening its grip on commercial insurance pricing, according to a new industry study. Average premiums in every line tracked by the RIMS Benchmark Survey, fell...
Securities Lawsuits Drop as Global Credit Crisis Eases: Advisen
Apr 14 2010 // After dominating securities litigation for three years, new securities lawsuit filings related to the global credit crisis all but disappeared in the first quarter of 2010. According to Advisen Ltd’s latest quarterly...
Soft Market, Weak Economy Will Challenge Insurers, Brokers in 2010
Apr 2 2010 // The recession may be over, but recovery is not happening quickly enough for insurers and brokers. From unemployment rates hovering at about 10 percent to still rising business bankruptcies, the lingering effects of the...
2010 Looks to Be Painful Year for P/C Insurers, Brokers: Advisen
Oct 22 2009 // Economists have declared the Great Recession over, but its lingering effects will continue to chip away at commercial property/ casualty premiums through 2010, according to insurance experts. A new Advisen Ltd. briefing...
Recession Slows But Doesn’t Halt Brokerage Consolidation: Advisen
Oct 19 2009 // Size still matters, reminds a new report on the insurance brokerage market by Advisen Ltd. As a result, the frenetic pace of consolidation in the brokerage sector will be only temporarily slowed by the global economic...
