Insurance

Electronic-payment gateway Slim CD has notified customers that its systems were hacked starting more than a year ago, potentially exposing the names, addresses, and credit card information of nearly 1.7 million individuals. The Coral Springs, Florida-based company that handles credit …

Dozens of women who say they suffered excruciating pain at a Yale University fertility clinic because a nurse stole fentanyl for her own use and replaced it with saline have settled their lawsuits against the Ivy League school. Patients and …

A small plane crashed in Vermont near an airport in Ferrisburgh, killing the four people on board, police said Monday. The Vermont State Police recovered the bodies from the wreckage of the four-seat, single-engine Piper aircraft that crashed Sunday in …

There has been a huge jump in law enforcement requests for Maine courts to allow guns to be seized from people deemed a danger to themselves or others since the deadliest mass shooting in state history, the governor said Friday. …

Treaty reinsurance written in the London company market grew by almost one-third in 2023, with the sector generating premiums of £10.889 billion (US$14.2 billion), up from £8.248 billion ($10.8 billion) in 2022, according to the International Underwriting Association (IUA). The …

Cities often get more rain and experience extreme rainfall more often compared to surrounding areas, a new study finds, a phenomenon that compounds other risk factors for urban flooding. Of the more than 1,000 cities around the world that the …

Typhoon Yagi severely damaged a large number of factories and flooded warehouses in northern Vietnam’s export-oriented industrial hubs, forcing plants to shut, with some expected to take weeks to resume full operations, executives said. The typhoon, the strongest in Asia …

DBS Group Holdings Ltd. is considering forming insurance partnerships in India and Taiwan to expand its services in the region, according to people familiar with the matter. The Singapore-based lender is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as an adviser …

Finland’s Sampo Oyj succeeded in pushing through an offer for Topdanmark A/S in its second attempt to gain control of the Danish insurer. The Finnish insurance company raised its holding in Topdanmark to about 92.6% of shares, based on a …

R. Berkley Names Rhodes President of Berkley Mid-Atlantic Insurance Group R. Berkley Corp., headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, appointed Antonio Q. L. Rhodes as president of Berkley Mid-Atlantic Insurance Group, a Berkley company. Rhodes has nearly 20 years of experience in …