Insurance

Two decades after its subsidiaries were deemed insolvent and 155 years after it was founded, one of the oldest insurance companies in the South has officially gone out of business. Seibels Bruce & Company’s 128,000-square-foot office building in Columbia, South …

Severe drought conditions have helped fuel the Los Angeles wildfires. But a new study, released Thursday in the journal Nature comes with a warning: Climate change is making catastrophic, multiyear “megadroughts” much worse around the world. Droughts are relative — …

France has reinforced checks for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) and issued alerts to veterinarians after an outbreak of the highly contagious virus was detected in cattle in Germany last week, prompting trade bans from several countries. France is trying to protect …

Juniper Re LLC, the specialist reinsurance broking arm of The Baldwin Group, announced its entry into the London market, appointing industry veteran Nick Hawke as head of office. With more than four decades of reinsurance experience in the London market, …

South Korean investigators found feathers in both engines of the Boeing Co. 737-800 jet involved in a crash late last month, pointing to possible evidence that the aircraft may have lost electrical power before an ill-fated emergency landing that killed …

A tanker subject to the new U.S. sanctions is discharging Russian oil at a port operated by Shandong Port Group in east China, shipping data on LSEG Eikon showed on Thursday. The tanker is the first since last week’s sanctions …

Maritime security officials said on Thursday they were expecting Yemen’s Houthi militia to announce a halt in attacks on ships in the Red Sea, after a ceasefire deal in the war in Gaza between Israel and the militant group Hamas. …

While 2024 brought record-breaking data-breach costs and evolving cyber risk, all signs point to stable rates and ample capacity in 2025. Intense competition among cyber insurance carriers has resulted in higher limits, enhanced cyber risk management services, flexibility in insurance …

Here’s stark warning in a new report from a group of actuaries: the global economy could face a 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090. That is if immediate policy actions on risks posed by climate change are not …

FBI leaders have warned that they believe hackers who broke into AT&T Inc.’s system last year stole months of their agents’ call and text logs, setting off a race within the bureau to protect the identities of confidential informants, a …