US company says it ‘did not perform to expectations’ in first quarter
United Insurance Brokers Limited charged with failure to prevent bribes being paid to officials
Acquisition will expand group’s motor and home insurance business
Change comes four years after Intact Financial Corporation paid £3bn to take over its British and Canadian operations
The inimitable insurance market has to ensure it remains attractive in the face of global competition
The 2025 ranking of fast growing companies in the Asia-Pacific region. Including: the Philippines looks beyond call centres, India’s Meesho taps WhatsApp, extending EV battery life, and cameras to keep drivers’ eyes on the road
The over-50s travel and insurance specialist reported improved underlying profit for 2024
Case involving murder of Brian Thompson has unleashed fraught debates over country’s for-profit healthcare
Catastrophe bonds linked to randomly occurring natural disasters were previously considered too illiquid for ETFs
Bruce Carnegie-Brown endorses Patrick Tiernan as insurance market prepares for three top jobs to change hands
Insurer pushes ahead with transformation programme
Higher requirements designed to discourage sector from holding digital assets
Sector is unprepared to handle growing sources of systemic risk, says Tom Clementi
The health benefits could be so extreme that it upends the annuity market, hitting retirement incomes and insurers
Also in this newsletter: Sunil Mittal looks to expand his holding in BT, and the FT’s exclusive interview with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang
Acquisition values California-based start-up’s shares at $2.6bn
John Neal warns geopolitics and regulatory requirements will add to cost of policies
FTSE 100 insurance group sees opportunities in Asian consumers’ low level of cover
Allianz, BlackRock and Japan’s T&D team up to buy Germany’s Viridium in €3.5bn deal
Regulator probing whether ‘premium finance’ unfairly treats policyholders who do not pay up front
Reinsurance trade group lobbies US commerce secretary about potential impact to monitoring hurricanes and drought conditions
Commercial insurance prices likely to remain high because of natural disasters and geopolitical risk, says marketplace
Group’s pre-tax profits up 90% as it declares final dividend more than twice 2023 level
Class action lawsuits in the US suggest that digitised medical services can bring downsides as well as benefits
Awards against tech groups including Microsoft and Amazon fuel phenomenon known as ‘nuclear verdicts’
