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...Generali, Italy’s biggest insurer, has agreed its largest deal in a decade, buying a Madrid-based insurance group from US insurer Liberty Mutual for €2.3bn....
...For this week, insurance correspondent Ian Smith takes a look at the chat bots that are increasingly handling your claims....
...Key economic and company reports Here is a more complete list of what to expect in terms of company reports and economic data this week....
...In June, the High Court will also hear Slug and Lettuce owner Stonegate’s £845m case against MS Amlin, Liberty Mutual Insurance in Europe and Zurich over the extent to which the hospitality group can claim...
...(Ian Smith) Quick Fire Q&A I spoke with Personetics CEO David Sosna shortly after his digital analytics firm raised $85mn from private equity giant Thoma Bravo last month....
...It’s in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, outside the headquarters of an insurance company located alongside an interstate highway. This is a pittance, globally speaking....
...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....
...If it’s not chilled, then I think you’re perfectly at liberty not to open it if you don’t want to. Red wine etiquette is more tricky....
...The company, which is backed by private equity group TDR Capital, is seeking £845m in a claim filed at London’s High Court against MS Amlin, Liberty Mutual Insurance Europe and Zurich....
...As one EU official puts it, “you don’t get rid of the firefighters just because there’s no fire.” The problem, of course, is that economic fires have been flaring up in euroland....
...Hello from New York, where our beloved skyline and Statue of Liberty were shrouded in a smoky haze this week as forest fires on the West Coast drifted all the way to the Atlantic....
...MPs on how to fire up the economy....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...A new generation of campaigners is bringing added fire to such demands....
...For DS Smith, we are reducing our FY 2021 and FY 2022 forecasts by 11% and 4%. Despite the forecast revisions, all three companies remain solidly cash generative through the cycle....
...US-based software group Unqork, whose clients include Goldman Sachs, John Hancock and Liberty Mutual, has raised $80m to expand into new markets and hire new engineers....
...The FCA has already fined a series of companies for mis-selling general insurance products, from Liberty Mutual, which received a £5m fine in October for poor controls over an outsourcer, through to Carphone...
...But another powerful group was also top of mind: large mutual funds and institutional investors such as Fidelity that can make or break newly listed companies....
...Old Mutual has fired its chief executive Peter Moyo, a month after suspending him over a conflict of interest relating to a private equity company he founded called NMT Capital....
...James Smith, economist at ING: A full 2021 recovery is unlikely....
...According to KBW, the five largest insurers in California by market share are State Farm, Farmers, Liberty Mutual, Allstate and Auto Club Exchange. Many of those are mutuals or privately owned....
...The thing is, the most famous example of this phenomenon happening in the past was also with Liberty Global: a very similar glitch happened with Malone’s German cable company Unitymedia back in 2012....
...Three years ago, the then prime minister David Cameron came under fire after it emerged he had received a £200,000 PET from his mother....
...estate and hotels, as well as insurance and financial services”....
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