Allstate's first hurricane-linked catastrophe bond was given a Standard and Poor's "double-B-plus" rating yesterday as the firm joined a long list of carriers to use that mechanism for backup reinsura

The company announced the new office will be headed by Jacopo D'antonio, president and chief underwriting officer. He has been with Aspen since its inception in 2002. He joined the company from Wellin

CDS Business Mapping, an online hazard-mapping developer, has added a batch-processing feature to RiskMeter Online, its real-time natural-hazard risk-report service. This new feature enables

Innovation First Notice, a provider of claim-reporting solutions to the property/casualty market, has signed a three-year AT&T Business Network (ABN) contract that includes the AT&T Route-It feature