News

East

• AM Best Revises Outlooks to Negative for Quincy Mutual Group Members
• Hub International Acquires Pennsylvania’s WhartonHill Advisors
• Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Acquires Pennsylvania’s Allied Insurance Brokers
• ‘Putrid’ Smell of Carcasses Over Newark Prompts New Jersey Lawsuit

National

• Airlift from Drugstore to Doorstep: Walgreens, Google’s Wing Testing Drone Deliveries
• Commercial Lines Insurtech Bold Penguin Raises $32 Million in Latest Round
• Music Copyright Law in Search of New Standard for Infringement
• Judge Allows Tesla Investor’s Claim Over Musk’s ‘Extraordinary’ $56B Performance Pact
• How Forested Communities Are Trying to Adapt to Growing Wildfire Threat
• House OKs Government Stopgap Funding That Extends Flood Insurance Until Nov. 21

International

• U.K. Travel Insurer Saga Secures Flights for Clients Hit by Collapse of Thomas Cook
• Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Appoints Semprini from HDI Global as Head Italy
• Dangers of Booming Securitized Loan Market Highlighted by Bank for Int’l Settlements
• Bellomi to Replace Semprini Who Will Step Down as HDI Global’s Head of Italy Branch
• Typhoon Tapah Disrupts Hundreds of Domestic Flights in Japan and South Korea
• Brazil Police Accuse Mining Firm Vale, Auditor of Fraud Related to Deadly Dam Collapse
• Good Leaders Challenge the Status Quo—and Themselves: SCOR’s Conoscente
• Staying Profitable in an Increasingly Fragmented World: SCOR Global P&C CEO
• Zurich Insurance Taps Giger from Swiss Regulator, FINMA, as Group Chief Risk Officer