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Goldman Sachs Asset Management | July 17, 2020

Global insurers are looking to increase investments in commercial warehouses over office space, according to a Reuters report. Investments in office space have become riskier due to the increase in remote work during the coronavirus pandemic, Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) said. The COVID-19 outbreak is pushing insurers to exchange “undesirable” real estate investments – including both office space and retail properties – for investments in warehouses, GSAM said....

Amynta Group | February 11, 2020

Amynta Group has announced that PDP Group – Amynta’s managing general agency specializing in offering insurance and title administration services to auto dealerships – will be offering a parametric hail insurance program. PDP Group has partnered with Hailsure Underwriting Managers to offer the new insurance program to auto dealers. A release said that Richard Duer, managing member of Hailsure, helped to develop the first parametric hail program in 2019 for auto dealers in Color...

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CoverTree and Socotra | October 03, 2022

CoverTree, an insurtech MGA based in Michigan, partnered with Socotra, the core platform provider of choice for innovative insurers, to launch easy and affordable insurance for owners, renters, and landlords of manufactured homes. With Socotra, CoverTree can now automate 92% of its applications with straight-through processing, enabling their customers to purchase a policy online in less than three minutes and save up to 40% in premiums. Traditionally, manufactured homes have been...

Insurance Business Magazine | February 05, 2020

After the US House of Representatives passed what some experts called a head-scratching short-term measure to extend the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) through December 20, 2019, the President then signed legislation passed by Congress to extend the program through to September 30, 2020. However, that doesn’t mean the issues plaguing the NFIP are solved ­­– far from it, in fact. If the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 had been successfully implemente...