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American Equity Investment Life Holding Company, an underwriter of index and fixed rate annuities, announced the appointment of William Kunkel as its EVP – Legal and General Counsel.

BluePhoenix, a provider of tools and services for modernizing legacy systems and applications has partnered with WAZ Informatique Inc., a provider of information technology consulting services. The partnership will deliver legacy modernization solutions for several large Canadian clients. BluePhoenix solutions convert legacy mainframe applications to modern, open standard platforms.

Security National Financial Corp. has, through its subsidiary Security National Life Insurance Co., closed on a coinsurance transaction with Mothe Life Insurance http://www.mothelifeinsurance.com and DLE Life Insurance Co.

Arthur J. Gallagher says AFR is a retail insurance broker providing retail P&C, employee benefits and risk management insurance services, as well as human resources and loss control services, for their commercial clients throughout the Midwest.

Ahead of the upcoming holiday, the National Insurance Crime Bureau analyzed vehicle theft data to determine the 11 most popular holidays for vehicle thefts.

Well ahead of superstorm Sandy’s wrath, private U.S. property/casualty insurers' net income after taxes grew to $27 billion in the first nine-months of 2012 from $8.4 billion in the same nine-months of 2011, with insurers' overall profitability, measured by their annualized rate of return on average policyholders' surplus, climbing to 6.3 percent from 2 percent. This is further validation that the property/casualty industry is prepared to deal with Sandy-related losses.

The CEO of Cornerstone Broker Insurance Services shares how and why his company set up its private health insurance exchange.This video first appeared on AdviserTV. 

As insurers evaluate their 2013 risk management programs, they are faced with a growing concern over the long-term effects of cybersecurity attacks.

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ACE Tempest Re International, the international reinsurance division of the ACE Group, has appointed David Mann as senior underwriter, structured and medical malpractice reinsurance, effective Jan. 1. Mann will continue to be based in London and report to Steve Roberts.