AXIS Capital Holdings Limited, headquartered in Pembroke, Bermuda, appointed Paul Boulos and Rob Ryan as heads of ocean marine. Boulos and Ryan will be responsible for building a suite of ocean marine-related products into a comprehensive offering. Most recently, Boulos, …
LAKE ZURICH, Ill. (AP) — The body of a 77-year-old man has been found after a house exploded in suburban Chicago. First responders found the home leveled after the explosion about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in Lake Zurich, according to the …
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple recently met with 20 property and casualty insurers ahead of this year’s Atlantic Hurricane Season to make sure insurers are prepared to handle claims following a hurricane or other catastrophic event. “I thought this meeting …
North Carolina authorities have charged a Battleboro insurance agent with 74 counts after they said he forged life insurance applications for 16 people. Jonathan Michael Vlasak, 35, a licensed producer qualified to sell property, casualty, life and accident insurance, took …
The U.S. personal insurance sector is positioned for improving underwriting performance in 2024. According to Fitch’s latest U.S. Personal Lines Market Update, the change is predicted amid signs that the previous surge in claims severity from higher inflation and supply …
A Colorado woman who was seriously injured when a freight train hit the parked police vehicle in which she sat handcuffed has reached an $8.5 million settlement, a lawyer representing two of the involved police officers said. The city of …
A legal battle between insurers and aircraft leasing companies over jets stuck in Ukraine should be heard in Ukraine rather than London, the High Court in London ruled on Thursday. Aircraft lessors, including Ireland’s AerCap, are pursuing insurers after Russia’s …
The boom in artificial intelligence will increase banks’ dependence on big U.S. tech firms, creating new risks for the industry, European banking executives said. Excitement around using artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services – widely used already for detecting fraud …
Global insurers plan to invest further in the coming years in the growing but opaque private credit market, according to a new report by Moody’s Ratings. In a survey this week of the world’s largest insurers, Moody’s found that nearly …
Brown & Brown, Inc. announced it has acquired the assets of McNamara Company. McNamara Company is a family-owned agency that has been servicing customers in all 50 states for four generations. Established in 1970 in Minnesota, McNamara Company provides a …