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...Allstate, State Farm and AIG have stopped underwriting new homeowners’ policies in California because of the risk of destructive wildfires....
...Shares in Allstate, the country’s second-biggest home insurer by premium volume, have fallen by a fifth....
...As a creditor to the company, Russia could try to force it into bankruptcy, but what would be the point?...
...Instead of buying outright, it has struck partnerships with several large insurers including AIG and Allstate, where it provides asset management services to their policies....
...There were, he said, few deals that offered the kind of transformative impact past takeovers have had, such as its purchases of insurers Geico and National Indemnity or the BNSF railroad....
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...The release follows a promise this month from Microsoft to provide indemnity coverage to any potential copyright claims arising from using its AI CoPilot services, which integrate generative AI into Word...
...It has also begun to manage the debt portfolios for large insurance companies, including AIG and Allstate....
...Big insurers such as State Farm and Allstate said recently they had suspended offering home insurance to new customers in California....
...If that sounds odd, it may be because we hear less about companies such as Allstate, the insurer that has about 57,000 employees and allows 82 per cent of those in the US to work remotely....
...This trend has intensified in recent years with large insurers following suit: for example, Allstate, Chubb and AIG sharply scaled down operations in California citing onerous price regulation....
...guarantee and indemnity agreement (the “Guarantee” . . ....
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