The Labuan Financial Services Authority has revealed that its insurance industry showed “modest top-line growth but higher profitability performance” last year, according to its Labuan International Business and Financial Centre market performance

QBE North America has promoted Steve Gransbury to head of specialty insurance, a newly created group of existing QBE businesses, and Tara Krauss to head of accident and health

Nichol & Co, an actuarial and risk consulting firm, will host a webinar on the captive insurance industry in The Bahamas to promote the industry to local professionals and other service providers on 28 May 2020

The Federation of European Risk Management Association has called on the European Commission to create an EU resilience framework for catastrophic risks to address the lack of coverage available for financial losses resulting from non-physical damage

Oklahoma’s governor Kevin Sitt has signed HB 3864 into law, which sets out how premium taxes by captive insurers should be distributed within the state of Oklahoma

Paul Owens is set to join Strategic Risk Solutions’ board of directors, serving as an independent director as well as a strategic advisor

Bragar Eagel & Squire, a US stockholder rights law firm, has launched an investigation into whether the board members of WTW breached fiduciary duties or violated the federal securities laws in connection with the company’s proposed merger with Aon

Catharina Richter has been appointed global head of Cyber Center of Competence (CoC) for Allianz Group, effective 1 June 2020

The board of directors of Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings has appointed Thomas Solomon as group chief financial officer

A.M. Best has affirmed the long-term issuer credit rating of “a-” of W. R. Berkley Corporation and all associated long-term issue credit ratings and indicative long-term issue ratings for securities issued by W. R. Berkley

Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings has appointed Eamonn Flanagan to the board as an independent non-executive director of the company with effect from 1 June 2020

Airmic, the UK association for risk and insurance professionals, will be hosting a major three-day virtual festival in September for risk and insurance professionals and the wider risk and insurance community