Everest Insurance Company of Canada (EvCan) has appointed David Crozier as its new chief executive officer, effective from 21 January 2013. In his new role, Crozier will be responsible for expanding the company's specialty commercial ...
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Commercial lines writer W R Berkley has established a new underwriting firm, Berkley Southeast Insurance Group, to offer commercial insurance services and expertise in six southeastern states in the US. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, the new ...
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SCOR Global Life Americas has appointed Francisco de Toledo Neto as the new president of its Brazilian operations, SCOR Life Brazil, to tap the growing business opportunity of life-health reinsurance market in the country. Toledo joins ...
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The current managing director of Wesfarmers Insurance, Rob Scott, will become finance director of Coles in February. Wesfarmers’ managing director Richard Goyder said Mr Scott has performed extremely well in significantly improving ...
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The insurance industry is looking at the possible effects of space weather on the world’s electronic systems. The issue arises, say the insurers, because space weather goes in 11 year cycles and severe events are expected in early ...
Genworth Financial has appointed Michael Derstine as the new chief risk officer (CRO) for its US Mortgage Insurance (USMI) unit, effective from 03 January 2013. Derstine joins Genworth from Republic Mortgage Insurance Company (RMIC), ...
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Georgia-based claims management services provider Crawford & Company has selected David Repinski as the new CEO of its US property & casualty business. In his new role, Repinski will be accountable for the business unit's operations, ...
Georgia-based claims management services provider Crawford & Company has selected David Repinski as the new CEO of its US property & casualty business. In his new role, Repinski will be accountable for the business unit's operations, ...
National Interstate Insurance Company has announced introduction of a new insurance program for waste operations. The company is currently accepting applications for accounts with effective dates of 01 February 2013 and beyond, with an ...
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A German insurance company has opted to implement ReadSoft's product XBOUND in order to handle incoming data to its new document storage system. The insurance company signed a deal worth euro 553,000 with ReadSoft in the fourth quarter of ...
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Reliance Life Insurance Company (RLIC) has introduced a new distribution format, Career Agency, intended to boost its business operations across the country. Under the new distribution channel, the company will appoint 5,500 career agents ...
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US commercial property and casualty insurance provider, CNA Financial has appointed Mark Herman as president and chief operating officer of CNA Specialty. Herman is taking over from Peter Wilson, whose retirement will be effective from 31 ...
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CDM Media announced today that Sapiens, a leading global provider of innovative software solutions for the financial services industry, will join the upcoming CIO Insurance Summit, to be held Oct. 14-16, 2012, in Scottsdale, Ariz. ...
If you don't know, you need a better connection to your company's risk managers, who measure risk by what can be insured and what it costs to do so. While the measurement of operational risks is still a bit of a puzzle for CSOs, risk ...
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The government must force NHS suppliers to list their prices on a comparison website in order to drive out £500m of overspend caused by price variation, according to research. The study from Ernst & Young found that discrepancies in ...