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Seeing an underserved market, Hiscox has launched a private client agency to serve high-net-worth individuals in the United Kingdom.

After 8 months on the job, Florida Citizens Property Insurance Corp. CEO Barry Gilway, says it was a "gross understatement" to say this would be the most challenging job of his career.

Arthur J. Glatfelter, founder of the Glatfelter Insurance Group, died Feb. 14 at the age of 88.

Some Lloyds of London underwriters and Arch Insurance Company are asking a federal court to require BP and Transocean to settle their dispute over claims submitted to the insurers.

A presidential executive order outlining some guidelines on cyber-security-coordination efforts may help get the ball rolling on more meaningful legislation, but by itself, the order does not seem to make any mandatory demands on private entities, at least at this time, an insurance-industry expert says.

Starr becomes the second recent entrant into the crop-insurance market after years of consolidation.