Michael Furtschegger has been appointed as global head of Entertainment at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS), reporting directly to Dr. Renate Strasse, AGCS SE board member and chief underwriting officer specialty. Based in Munich, Furtschegger has led the global …
EPIC Insurance Brokers and Consultants announced organizational and restructuring changes across the company. Tom O’Neil has been named president of EPIC and will work directly with CEO Steve Denton to grow the business across its entire platform – from Private …
Finnish financial group Sampo plc is continuing its transformation into a pure insurance group with an announcement that it will substantially cut its 15.9% stake in Nordea Bank. Sampo’s board and management said the company will focus on high-quality P/C …
France’s privacy watchdog said it’s investigating the leak of sensitive health data on half a million people and said the companies involved could face heavy penalties if they don’t come forward with details of the breaches. The leaks were of …
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has named Katie Fioretti as regional head of portfolio steering for financial lines in North America, effective immediately. She assumes the role from Alessandro Carriglio, now head of claims reporting and analytics. Fioretti reports …
The New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has appointed members to serve a three-year term on the New York State Insurance Advisory Board. Members of the board include representatives of the insurance industry and consumer advocates, as required …
A suspect has been arrested in a fatal shooting last June in a Meriden hotel, police said. Trevor Outlaw, 33, was arrested Friday in the June 21, 2020 death of Giovanni Rodriguez at the Comfort Inn on East Main Street, …
A bipartisan group of senators on Tuesday recommended that the U.S. consider requiring companies to disclose when they have been hacked. At the first public hearing before Congress since a massive cyber-attack by suspected Russian hackers was disclosed in December, …
A construction worker was injured when a gasket burst and struck him in the head at a college in northern New Jersey, authorities said. Workers were conducting a standard pressure test on a chiller line in the Learning Commons Library …
The widow and a friend of a man killed in an avalanche at a Lake Tahoe ski resort last year have filed separate lawsuits accusing the resort of negligently rushing to open the slopes in unsafe conditions for a holiday …