Lloyd’s of London will pay staff earning less than £75,000 ($86,306) an extra £2,500 to help cover rising living costs as UK inflation hits multi-decade highs. John Neal, chief executive officer at the insurance exchange, said he wrote to staff …
Burns & Wilcox added California-based Joe Jurkovich and promoted Tom Carvalho and Evan Hudson. Jurkovich joins as associate managing director, where he oversees the Fresno office’s day-to-day operations and growth strategy. He has nine years of industry experience, and most …
Coffee store giant, Starbucks Corp., will reinstate seven employees who were fired in February after leading an effort to unionize a Memphis store. The seven workers will get their jobs back after the Seattle-based coffee giant lost an appeal of …
The trial in Ambac Financial Group Inc.’s $2.7 billion case against Bank of America is expected to begin in New York state court on Wednesday, 12 years after the bond insurer sued over troubled mortgage-backed securities issued before the 2008 …
Westfield said it has expanded into the international specialty insurance market by buying Lloyd’s Syndicate 1200 from Argo Group International Holdings for about $125 million. The acquisition is expected to close during the first half of 2023 pending regulatory approval. …
U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, a Democratic candidate for governor of Florida, has continued to needle incumbent Gov. Ron DeSantis for his handling of the property insurance crisis in the state. At a press conference Wednesday, Crist, himself a former governor, …
Aon plc, the global professional services firm, has launched a Strategy and Technology Group (STG) to bring together a wide range of expertise and technology solutions — designed to help property & casualty and life re/insurance clients build resilience. Developed …
Fresh on the heels of massive reinsurance price increases in June, which helped send some property insurers into insolvency or out of the Florida market, reinsurers are now likely to raise premiums again in the next few months. Analysts with …
AIG’s Lexington Insurance Company today announced the launch of the Lexington Middle Market Casualty team, a group of dedicated underwriters focused on providing insurance coverage exclusively to small-to-medium-sized commercial enterprises (SME), substantially expanding the company’s market reach beyond upper middle-market …
A court order that requires Sherwin-Williams Co. to pay $101 million into a lead paint abatement fund amounts to “damages” that are recoverable through a Lloyd’s of London insurance policy, an Ohio appellate court ruled last week. The Eighth Appellate …