Zurich-based PERILS AG, a new company established to aggregate and provide European catastrophe insurance data, announced that Luzi Hitz has been appointed chief executive officer.
Onset of a hard market for the property-casualty insurance industry has been delayed by record 2006 and 2007 surpluses, few impediments to new entrants, and competition with American International Group, a brokerage study found.
In "Chicago," while Roxie Hart becomes a celebrity after murdering her lover, no one notices her protective husband, Amos, who laments his lack of visibility ...
Despite international efforts that have suppressed some attacks on Gulf of Aden shipping, the piracy problem is escalating--driving a tenfold increase in vessel insurance rates--one maritime expert observed.
With the economy in a shambles, it's not surprising that risk managers are feeling the effects in their personal bank accounts, with raises and bonuses not as easy to come by as they might have been in the past few years.
At this week's annual RIMS conference, Bill Perry, the source of our cover story and president of Logic Associates--the top placement firm for risk managers--will be at the National Underwriter exhibit booth (1011) on Monday morning, April 20.
Competing U.S. and Bermuda insurance interests have been ramping up lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill over a proposed tax code change that would impact treatment of U.S. business ceded to Bermudian carriers.
In a recent episode of the CBS-TV sitcom, "How I Met Your Mother," corporate survivor extraordinaire Barney Stinson counsels that to avoid being laid off, he needs to fill a more popular workplace role at Goliath National Bank.
Wells Fargo Insurance Services Inc., has acquired the assets of North Coast Surety Insurance Services and North Coast Surety Technologies. Transaction terms were not released.