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25 09, 2020

Arch Forms Underwriting Partnership with ProHost for Restaurant Industry Program

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Arch Insurance has formed an underwriting partnership with ProHost USA, a Minneapolis-based insurance program administrator providing specialty packages to the restaurant industry. ProHost USA is part of Distinguished Programs, a national program administrator. Retail agents can now learn about and …

25 09, 2020

Brazil’s State-Owned Caixa Again Postpones IPO of Its Insurance Unit

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Brazilian state-owned lender Caixa Economica Federal said on Thursday that it had indefinitely postponed plans for an initial public offering of its insurance unit Caixa Seguridade, the second time this year the high-profile deal has been put off. Caixa Economica …

25 09, 2020

Court Nixes Opioid Proposal That Would Have Included Cities That Have Not Sued

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A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned a judge’s approval of a novel plan by lawyers representing cities and counties suing drug companies over the U.S. opioid crisis that would bring every community nationally into their settlement talks. The 6th …

25 09, 2020

Lloyd’s CEO Neal Sees Appeal of COVID Business Insurance Ruling Coming

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Lloyd’s of London Chief Executive John Neal said on Thursday he expected a London judgment, which ordered some insurers to compensate struggling businesses for losses during the COVID-19 pandemic, to be appealed. London judges ruled that some of the world’s …

25 09, 2020

A.J. Gallagher Alleges Alliant’s Poaching ‘Playbook’ Has Cost It Employees, Clients

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California-based insurance broker Alliant is again being sued over an alleged poaching scam, this time by rival Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Gallagher claims Alliant, with assistance and capital from its private equity partner Stone Point Capital, has engaged in …

25 09, 2020

Alabama City Officials Drop Chemical Contamination Lawsuit

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Officials in the northwest Alabama city of Guin have dropped a lawsuit against chemical giant 3M that alleged chemicals from its manufacturing plant had entered a creek that supplies drinking water to the community. The Guin Water works & Sewer …

25 09, 2020

What Ever Happened to Hedge Fund Reinsurers?

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The latest group of reinsurers to emerge in the Bermuda market is starting to look different. Even the name that once described the cohort has changed in the past five years. And at least one member of the group of …

25 09, 2020

Formation of More ‘Class of 2020’ Reinsurers Unlikely

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The Class of 2020 already has a new member, but it’s not a true startup, the chair of the company said recently. Speaking at the KBW Insurance Conference in early September, Sid Sankaran, chair of Third Point Re, was referring …

25 09, 2020

Swiss Re Announces Plans to Streamline Structure of Group

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Swiss Re announced further streamlining of the legal entity structure of the group. Following the announcement on June 19, 2020 that the Life Capital Business Unit will be disbanded, Swiss Re also intends to reorganize the legal entity structure of …

24 09, 2020

Reliance Global Group Acquires New York’s UIS Agency

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Reliance Global Group Inc. has acquired the assets of UIS Agency LLC, a Thiells, N.Y.-based insurance agency serving the commercial transportation industry. Reliance Global Group CEO Ezra Beyman said in a company press release that UIS will compliment Reliance’s existing …