Tower Group International says it will receive $5 million in exchange for the termination of its previously announced agreement to buy American Safety Reinsurance from Fairfax Financial Holdings.

One of them learned technology hundreds of feet underwater in a submarine; another started his own consulting business while still in college. To say the 2013 Insurance IT All-Stars is an eclectic group is no understatement.

One of them learned technology hundreds of feet underwater in a submarine; another started his own consulting business while still in college. To say the 2013 Insurance IT All-Stars is an eclectic group is no understatement.

First-generation portals offered by insurers limited the way in which users could access information and functionality to a single, proprietary interface.