In its eighth year, the Shaw Contract Group Design Is… Award program honors architecture and design firms that are changing the very idea of what design is. This year, Shaw Contract Group introduced Market Awards, representing the ...
Specialty insurer HCC Insurance Holdings has established a new ‘Construction Property Risks Division’ with an aim to boost its underwriting capability in builder's risk insurance. Francis P Tricamo, Sr has been appointed to ...
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HM Insurance Group, a Highmark company, has developed new products to help producers in calculating and understanding the impact of Affordable Care Act (ACA) taxes and fees on self-insured groups. The new fee calculator and ...
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Hong Kong-based Dah Sing Life Assurance (DSLA) has completed implementation of eBaoTech LifeSystem suite to run its conventional and unit-linked life insurance operations. Accomplished in two phases, the implementation has enabled the ...
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General Insurance Corporation (GIC Re), the Indian government owned sole reinsurer, is seriously considering expanding reinsurance business beyond domestic boundary through the acquisition of some Lloyd’s syndicates. Speaking at a ...
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Global insurance and reinsurance provider XL Group has established a new Global Programs Center of Excellence to ensure its global programs and services continue to address the changing requirements of customers and brokers worldwide. The ...
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Florida-based holding company Homeowners Choice has changed its name to HCI Group, Inc., following approval from shareholders. Change to the company's name is expected to provide several benefits, including improved representation of the ...
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Willis North America has set up a new private insurance exchange, the Willis Advantage, which will help organizations design and implement client-centric private exchange solutions. Combining robust private exchange capabilities focused ...
Myanmar's Directorate of Investment and Company Administration (DICA) has granted a regulatory approval to The ACE Group for establishment of a representative office in the country. Scheduled to be opened in Yangon, the new office will ...
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Iran's Petrochemical Commercial Co is expected to offer more LPG to Asia after selling a cargo to South Korea, possibly its first to this region in 2013 since an EU ban late last year, by using ships made available for CFR deliveries, ...
Switzerland’s multi-line insurance provider Zurich Insurance Group has reported a business operating profit (BOP) of $1.4bn and net income attributable to shareholders (NIAS) of $1.1bn for the three months ended on 31 March 2013. ...
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Brown & Brown has elected James S. Hunt (Jim) to its board of directors, in an effort to help the firm as it moves towards its next intermediate revenue goal of $2bn. Having worked with the Walt Disney Company from 1992 to 2012, Jim most ...
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Fairfax Financial Holdings has signed a merger agreement to enable Hartville Group of Canton, Ohio, to become a wholly-owned firm of Crum & Forster's US Fire Insurance, subject to customary conditions including regulatory approval. The ...
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Stonewood National Insurance has selected 4Sight Business Intelligence for Property & Casualty (P&C) insurance, to allow the firm to proactively run its business. The product will enable the firm to identify and frame both challenges and ...
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Eurobase Insurance Solutions has unveiled its next-generation platform, synergy2, intended to efficiently transact business without any limitations. Designed to be reconfigurable to clients' business needs, the synergy2 is a fully ...
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