Beazley

Insurance Business America | March 19, 2019

Committed to providing user-friendly policies, Beazley has made things simpler for UK businesses looking to take out comprehensive cyber insurance. The specialist insurer has streamlined the forms for both its Beazley Breach Response (BBR) and InfoSec offerings. BBR has a proposition designed for small- and medium-sized organisations while the latter is Beazley’s information security & privacy product for larger firms. Meanwhile access to the in-house breach response unit BBR Services ...

Business insurance | January 22, 2018

A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling holding that a Chubb Ltd. unit is not obligated to indemnify Nasdaq under the professional services exclusion in its directors and officers liability policy in connection with Facebook’s botched 2012 initial public offering. The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York in Beazley Insurance Co. Inc. v. ACE American Insurance Co., Illinois National Insurance Co. agrees with a 2016 ruli...

Insurance Business Magazine | January 16, 2020

Insurance start-up battleface, which provides travel insurance for unconventional travelers worldwide, has announced that it has successfully closed a seed funding round with backing from strategic and venture capital investors. Fintech Ventures Fund has invested in battleface, joining Greenlight Re and Tangiers Group. The investment will be used to expand software development, hire sales and business-development personnel, and expand battleface’s global reach, the company said. “We ...

Aon | January 15, 2020

Global insurance brokerage and professional services firm Aon has officially completed its acquisition of CoverWallet, a US-domiciled digital insurance platform for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Now finalized, the deal enables Aon to expand its position in the fast-growing commercial insurance market for SMEs. The brokerage giant will also be able to leverage CoverWallet’s technology and data & analytics capabilities to develop and scale innovative digital client experienc...