Liberty Mutual Insurance, an American global insurer, is set to acquire Mexican surety company Primero Fianzas from private investor group Grupo Valores Operativos Monterrey. Terms of the deal, which is subject to the receipt of ...
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Almost 4-in-10 U.S. adults did not see a doctor when sick or failed to fill prescriptions due to cost, compared to 5 percent in other nations, researchers say. An 11-country survey by The Commonwealth Fund also found about 2-of-5 U.S. ...
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Xuber, Xchanging’s insurance software business, has been selected by Everest Reinsurance Company (“Everest Re”) to implement Xuber for Reinsurers in place of its existing legacy system. The deal marks the first customer to ...
Amerisure Mutual Insurance Company, a Property/Casualty (P/C) commercial insurer, and Guidewire Software, Inc. (GWRE), a provider of software products to P/C insurers, announced that Amerisure has selected Guidewire ClaimCenter as its new ...
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Hortica Insurance & Employee Benefits has selected Digital Insurance, the nation’s largest and most technologically advanced employee benefits-only agency, to be its exclusive employee benefits partner in all markets across the ...
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Telefónica, a Spanish broadband and telecommunications provider, has inked a deal with Sparkassen DirektVersicherung to launch the first telematics product for car insurance in Germany. Claimed to offer significant security ...
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Prudential Individual Life Insurance, a business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (PRU), has named Ann Nanda Vice President of Institutional Sales. In this role, she is responsible for building on and executing a strategy to deliver ...
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AssuredPartners of Missouri, a subsidiary of insurance brokerage firm AssuredPartners, has acquired all the assets of AHM Financial insurance business for an undisclosed amount. AHM insurance unit, based in St. Louis, offers ...
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Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance has added risk management support services to its healthcare professional liability portfolio. With this development, the company will reimburse insurance policyholders for the costs of pre-approved ...
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Bupa has announced its partnership deal with UK Sport is to continue until March 2014. This is an extension of the 2011 deal, whereby Bupa became the ‘Official Health Insurance Partner of UK Sport’. The partnership means Bupa ...
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Willis, a global risk advisor and insurance and reinsurance broker, has selected Agencyport Software's risk exposure aggregation solution, OPEN Xposure, for its Global360 initiative. The company caters to the marine, energy, aviation, ...
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IVANS Insurance Solutions, a division of software firm Applied Systems, has launched IVANS ALIR Pro Online, a new hosted solution for automobile liability insurance reporting (ALIR). The solution provides carriers with a hosted ...
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Mazda Motor Corporation has confirmed that two people were injured after a demonstration of its automated city braking system went awry. Occurring in a parking lot of a Mazda dealership in Fukaya city, Saitama prefecture, Japan on ...
Today we have the announcement by DECC that EdF will construct the first of the new generation of nuclear plants in the UK. Should we welcome this decision? The contract for this project will provide an electricity price of ...
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RSA Insurance, a UK-based general insurance company, has commenced an independent review of its financial and regulatory reporting processes and controls within its Irish operations. The move comes after the insurer suspended its CEO ...
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