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Stronger El Niño effects could pressure Brazil’s insurance results: Fitch

Fitch Ratings, a global credit ratings agency providing assessments and analysis across financial markets, expects intensifying El Niño conditions to create additional challenges for Brazil’s insurance industry. The agency said more frequent and severe weather events could result in higher claims and weaker technical performance, particularly among insurers with significant exposure to catastrophe-prone business lines….

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Verisk promotes Harry White to Head of Property Claim Services

Verisk, a data analytics and technology provider to the global re/insurance industry, has promoted Harry White to Head of Property Claim Services (PCS). PCS is a Verisk business providing independent industry loss estimates for catastrophe and non-catastrophe events worldwide to the global insurance, reinsurance, and insurance-linked securities markets. In his new role, White will lead…

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Tim Curry’s Awkward Encounter With Donald And Ivana Trump On The Set Of Home Alone 2

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Aon estimates hundreds of millions in losses from wave of European severe storms

Severe convective storm systems swept across Europe in recent days, unleashing damaging winds, large hail and torrential rainfall that caused localised flash flooding. The storms are expected to result in aggregate economic and insured losses of hundreds of millions of euros, according to Aon. The severe weather affected parts of Western, Central and Northern Europe,…

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