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...Mayhem persists among the US’s property and casualty insurers. Auto-insurance businesses are still losing money....
...BP, the former Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, absorbed Burmah in 2000. Distillers Company was bought by Guinness in 1986 which ultimately became Diageo with the merger with Grand Metropolitan in 1997....
...A successful artist’s house can be a strange hybrid. It is much more than a home: it is a studio, a gallery and a showroom — a space that mixes domesticity with business....
...No premiums for insurtech Once high-flying insurance start-ups like Lemonade, Hippo and Root have emerged as the biggest casualties of the broader sell off in tech stocks, the FT’s Ian Smith writes....
...Mr Plants had wondered why an obscure insurance underwriter, which focuses on the property and casualty market, was spending so much money sponsoring professional yacht and auto races....
...Family feuds and fraudsters In 2014 the Waldorf Astoria was sold for almost $2bn to Anbang, the globally ambitious but troubled Chinese insurance company, making it the most expensive hotel ever....
...Property and casualty cover is seen as a far more natural home....
...(iii) Such a property wealth tax would cause a large industry of tax avoidance....
...Exane likes Sampo and Lancashire as the most defensive of the property and casualty insurers....
...Sage is owned within its Real Estate Partners Europe V fund, an opportunistic fund, and could ultimately be sold or listed....
...Burglaries — another offence for which police records are likely to be reliable because of insurance companies’ demands — were up 10 per cent in London, against a 6 per cent average for England and Wales...
...Insurance stocks had been trending downwards for weeks as the start of the Atlantic hurricane season weighed on investors’ minds, and rating agency Moody’s warned that property and casualty insurers, as...
...This high profile casualty of the trade war won’t go unnoticed among multinational companies. Garry Young, NIESR Chelsea will win the cup....
...Some of Biden’s trusted aides from her existing properties are training staff at The Silo....
...Generally, property and casualty groups struggle to keep their combined ratios below 100 per cent. The problem for actuaries and boards is the volatility of the losses in political risk....
...Experts say that life insurance companies face greater challenges than property and casualty insurers, and that some may change their business models as a consequence....
...“In general, Solvency II has fewer implications for non-life property and casualty business,” says Mr Prowse....
...Larger companies may look to improve their capital efficiency by diversifying (in particular, life insurance companies are likely to look at buying property and casualty insurers). 2015 was a busy one for...
...Privately held Anbang collected Rmb33bn ($5.4bn) in life assurance premiums in the first eight months of 2014 versus only Rmb3.4bn in property and casualty fees, government data show....
...While here in London we’ll help the British Museum, the Science Museum, and the V&A move their collections out of storage and on display....
...But with banks now deleveraging and having to comply with the Basel III capital adequacy rules, “the capital charges for insurance companies are more attractive than for banks”, adds Mr Bradford....
...The inquiries also identified 39 properties in Paris and the south of France belonging to Omar Bongo of Gabon and his entourage, as well as 24 properties and 112 bank accounts linked to President Dennis...
...Again, from the opinion: Interventions by authorities at a Bank or an Insurance Company may constitute an event of default, termination event or similar event under their contracts with counterparties,...
...The story of the mysterious yellow characters in the glass is as strange as fiction....
...In any case, the day is not too far off when the stock’s value will be determined by the strength of AIG’s core property-casualty and life assurance businesses....
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