Senator Tina Smith's bipartisan legislation to safeguard the availability of terrorism risk insurance coverage passed the full Senate by a unanimous vote. Roughly 60 percent of American businesses have terrorism risk insurance, which could become unavailable without further action by Congress. Sen. Smith led the bipartisan Terrorism Risk Insurance…
Governor Greg Abbott named Elizabeth Lisa Maciejewski-West as Chair of the Risk Management Board for a term set to expire at the pleasure of the Governor. The State Office of Risk Management administers insurance services obtained by state agencies, including the self-insured government employees workers compensation insurance program and the state…
New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport issued the following news release:. TRENTON– Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor announced today that an owner of a high-end car rental company has been sentenced to four years in state prison for insurance fraud involving a staged car crash and fraudulent…
AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of“ a+” of Solunion Seguros, Compañía Internacional de Seguros y Reaseguros S.A.. Solunion is the operating holding company of the Solunion group of companies, a 50- 50 joint venture between the Mapfre group and Allianz Trade. Allianz SE is the ultimate parent of Allianz…
The Fed’ s inspector general said that a variety of missteps by its Board of Governors inflated the cost of the $2.4 billion renovation. Trump’ s Justice Department then launched an investigation into whether Powell had committed perjury during brief testimony on the building renovation before a Senate committee. That investigation was dropped in April…
eMaxx today announced that Rob Gronkowski has been named company spokesperson. “eMaxx is a property and casualty provider built for businesses that take risk management seriously,” said Brian K. McCarthy, CEO and President, eMaxx.“ Rob’ s commitment to teamwork reflects the values of Members, and we are proud to welcome him as the Company’ s spokesperson.”.
When the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of England and other central banks let their printing presses go crazythat is, increase the amount of currency in circulation significantly beyond their economies' rate of growththe value of each unit of currency declines and prices seemingly rise. If you look at what has happened with the European Central…
The following information was released by the Federal Reserve Board:. Thank you for inviting me to speak here today.1 Last year at Sibos I leaned into the conference theme and discussed how a range of emerging technologies could shape the next frontier in global payments.2 Consistent with this year's theme, today I want to focus more specifically on the state…
AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of“ a” of Abu Dhabi National Insurance Company P.J.S.C.. The company’ s earnings are evenly balanced between underwriting and investing activities and benefit from the company’ s diverse operations both in the UAE and internationally. ADNIC’ s underwriting results for…
AM Best has affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A+ and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings of“ aa-” of American United Life Insurance Company and The State Life Insurance Company. These companies are collectively referred to as the OneAmerica Group.. In addition, AM Best has affirmed the Long-Term ICR of“ a-” and the Long-Term Issue Credit Ratings of OneAmerica…
MSI TM today announced it is extending its embedded insurance platform to manufactured home communities, a segment of the housing market where community insurance requirements have historically been hard for operators to track and enforce. There are more than 16 million people 1 living in nearly eight million manufactured homes 2 across the U.S.
The better-than-expected data Wednesday helped Treasury yields pull back a bit, a day after the 10- year Treasury yield touched its highest level since 2002. That in turn helped U.S. stocks to stabilize. The yield on the 10- year Treasury eased to 5.23%.
–Columbus City Schools, the largest school district in the Ohio, reached an agreement with employee unions over health insurance premium increases. Both the public and private sectors are struggling with higher insurance costs in part because of reduced federal subsidies to the Affordable Care Act, according to the non-profit group, Commonwealth Fund.
