Mortgage insurer MGIC Investment Corp said it would pay Freddie Mac $267.5 million to settle a dispute that had threatened to stop it from writing new insurance throughout the United States.

THOMCO founder Greg Thompson has taken over as the head of Markel Specialty, a subsidiary of Markel Corp.

In judging risk, insurance carriers have always been dependent on getting the best possible information in a timely manner. For Society Insurance, an aging manual process wasnt filling those needs so the carrier went looking for a solution that would improve the process it used to survey risks for its...