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...US-listed Aon has a $65bn market value and employs 50,000 across 120 countries. In December it agreed a $13bn acquisition of US broker NFP, expanding the business it does with mid-sized companies....
...Fast-growing private capital managers such as Apollo have in recent years pushed aggressively to create higher earning assets for insurance companies....
...Ingosstrakh, which evolved out of the Soviet-era Chief Agency of Foreign Insurance, is one of Russia’s largest insurers. Insurance for shipping is a small part of its portfolio....
...Lemonade, whose shares have fallen more than 70 per cent since its first day of trading in New York in 2020, provides a range of insurance including for homes, pets and cars to customers in the US and Europe...
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...On Monday, the company announced it was buying Lloyd’s insurer Probitas for £242mn....
...Third, a repricing of climate risks has led to a sharp rise in the cost of property catastrophe reinsurance — or insurance for insurance companies....
...The rating agency recently upgraded its credit rating on an improved underwriting performance and a stronger balance sheet. Lloyd’s has also made progress in reviving face-to-face trading....
...No casualties were reported following the strikes. Israel notified the US of its intention to carry out strikes in Iran on Thursday evening, an Israeli official said....
...“The big question is, can the PE firms be a trusted owner of a life insurance company?” said Isabelle Santenac, global insurance leader at consultancy EY....
...US property and casualty insurers could face $40-180B in losses related to PFAS litigation....
...But it seemed a chance worth taking: according to the US Federal Emergency Management Agency, the risk of severe flooding was only 1 per cent a year. Five years later, Hurricane Ida hit....
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...Law enforcement agencies in the US state of Maine were searching for an active shooter on Wednesday evening after attacks at multiple locations caused “multiple casualties”....
...In some of the worst-hit areas of the US, several insurers have pulled back from offering home insurance, contributing to an affordability crisis....
...That helped mitigate any massive losses for Berkshire’s all-important property and casualty insurance segment. Profits here jumped....
...Earlier this week, Knight Insurance Group, one of more than a handful of companies that make up Hankey’s financial empire, put up a $175mn bond for Donald Trump, an amount the former president had to post...
...Also in the group is Manuel Sánchez Rodriguez, a former top executive at Spanish bank BBVA and a board member, since 2018, of the US government-backed mortgage insurance company Fannie Mae....
...According to an index from insurance broker Marsh, global commercial insurance rates rose in the final three months of last year, the 25th straight quarter of increases....
...Monday’s report also called for bodies such as the National Infrastructure Commission, an executive agency that provides advice to the government, to be given a “broader remit and be less at the mercy of...
...Farmers Insurance, one of the biggest property and casualty providers in the US, found itself under attack this year for political “wokeness”....
...The US has said it played no role. The International Atomic Energy Agency also said none of Iran’s nuclear sites were damaged....
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