Vacation would be great if nothing happened while I’m away from my desk, but that never seems to be how it works for me. Just as I left for a break on July 14, Accenture announced the purchase of Duck Creek. And then last week, Vertafore reaches out and nabs...

While property and casualty insurers have benefitted from favorable loss-reserve development in recent years, a Keefe, Bruyette & Woods analysis contends that accident years 2008 to 2010 are underreserved and that adverse development will result in the future.

Weather Central, a global provider of enterprise weather solutions and forecasting, announces an agreement with Progressive Insurance that will leverage the company’s Live:Wire HailZone data and radar analytics to provide advanced warning of severe hailstorms to drivers who sign up at www.progressive.com/weatheralerts.

A year-long legal battle with Nevada regulators has paid off for a risk-retention group in the form of a decision that should set a precedent for all RRGs, a trade association says.