November 1, 2023
Hamilton Insurance Group is targeting a valuation of up to $2 billion in its U.S. initial public offering, the specialty insurer said on Wednesday. The company, along with some existing investors looking to sell their shares, aims to raise up …
November 1, 2023
Investment banking and financial firm OPTIS Partners said the count of agency mergers and acquisitions through the first three quarters of 2023 saw the largest decline ever recorded. There were 534 announced M&A deals of U.S. and Canada property/casualty insurance …
November 1, 2023
Global commercial insurance prices increased 3% in the third quarter of 2023, the same as the prior quarter, according to the Global Insurance Market Index released by the insurance broker Marsh, a business of Marsh McLennan. The third quarter marks …
November 1, 2023
Verisk Analytics beat market expectations for third-quarter revenue and profit on Wednesday, as more insurance companies used its products to assess risk. The data analytics company’s products cater to insurers across sectors ranging from real estate to manufacturing. Insurance company …
November 1, 2023
A California jury on Tuesday found Bayer liable in a case brought by a man who claimed his cancer was due to exposure to the company’s Roundup weed killer, and ordered it to pay $332 million in damages. The verdict …
November 1, 2023
Challenges facing today’s business leaders include keeping pace with rapid change, the leader of Travelers said last week while also going out of his way to cast light on a serious obstacle to forward progress: polarization. “I think it’s a …
November 1, 2023
Well before Russia’s audacious cyberattack that exploited SolarWinds Corp.’s software was made public, several employees allegedly raised red flags about holes in the company’s security. Their warnings, documented in a lawsuit filed by US regulators, raise questions about whether the …
October 31, 2023
Forty countries in a U.S.-led alliance plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating the hackers’ funding mechanism, a senior White House official said on Tuesday. The International Counter Ransomware Initiative comes …
October 31, 2023
The government plan to pay billions of dollars to victims of toxic water at Camp Lejeune has unleashed a wave of fraudulent claims that threatens to disrupt or taint what could be one of the largest-ever mass tort cases. Mikal …
October 31, 2023
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday sued software company SolarWinds Corp. and its top information security executive, saying they defrauded investors by hiding cybersecurity weaknesses during a massive hack targeting the U.S. government. The SEC lawsuit in Manhattan …