Ukraine cargo insurance stopped as Russia abandons grain agreement

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Coverage is no longer being offered for shipments from the country as Russia quit the UN-backed deal. A cargo insurance company providing Ukraine grain shipment coverage through a safe sea corridor has now been suspended following Russia’s exit from the agreement backed by the United Nations, according to broker Marsh. Moscow announced that it was stepping away from the grain deal that was established a year ago. The grain deal was made between Russia and the United Nations to help reduce the risk of creating hunger around the world by…

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GeoX partners with Sompo Japan to develop AI-based automated underwriting platforms

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GeoX, a leader in supplying geospatial data to insurers Announced today a partnership with Sompo Holdings Inc., Sompo Japan Insurance Inc., and Sompo Risk Management Inc., specialty providers of property and casualty insurance and reinsurance with operations in the U.S. and 80,000 employees in 228 cities in 30 countries. This partnership will support Sompo Japan as it develops an automated underwriting methodology utilizing state-of-the-art AI technology.  In recent years, advances in geospatial data technologies such as higher resolution and 3D satellite imagery have led insurers to use data in ways…

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Dropping insurance underwriting in Q4 2019 struck Berkshire Hathaway where it hurts

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Warren Buffett’s company was able to recover last year despite those dragging results. Berkshire Hathaway was able to see substantial recovery in the last quarter of 2019, but that was in spite of the group’s lagging insurance underwriting result. The recovery was an important one as the same quarter in 2018 saw a significant loss overall. Warren Buffett’s multinational conglomerate issued a release last weekend. In it, they revealed that their insurance underwriting brought in a $857 million operating loss. Berkshire Hathaway’s income through insurance investing, utilities, railroad and energy,…

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Obama administration makes insurance news with EU agreement negotiations

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The U.S. Treasury and U.S. Trade Representative have said they plan to work for a covered agreement. The insurance news announcement has now been made that the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. Trade Representative intend to enter into negotiations with the European Union over a covered agreement regarding insurance. The goal of these negotiations will be to “level the regulatory playing field for U.S-based insurers and reinsurers.” E.U. insurance companies and industry regulators have been expressing frustration with regards to the American reinsurance collateral requirements. The issue at the center…

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Zurich Insurance company shows substantial profit reduction

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The general coverage business from the firm has recorded an operating loss making insurance news headlines. Zurich Insurance Group has recently reported that the insurance company has experienced a 79 percent drop in its net profit for the third quarter of 2015, requiring the firm to have to change gears with regards to a number of strategies it had planned to implement. Among the scrapped plans in this insurance news included a sizeable acquisition mean to boost financial performance. The insurance company, based in Zurich, stated that its net profit…

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