Jencap, one of the largest wholesale brokerages in the U.S., announced that John Michael “JM” Edge, formerly of
Amwins, is the new property and casualty binding team manager for Atlanta, Charlotte and Denver teams.
Edge spent more than 10 years at Amwins, building the Florida Access office, and was with Jupiter Re on its large property team.
Jenncap is based in New York and works with some 20,000 independent insurance agencies.
Alliant Insurance Services named B.J. Givens senior vice president within its employee benefits group, based in Nashville.
Givens will serve a national client base, working with organizations to design benefits programs, the company sa
id in a announcement. He was previously senior VP and national growth leader with a global insurance brokerage
. Givens holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration, from Belmont University.
Alliant, based in California, said it is one of the largest specialty brokers in the U.S.
“Of course, erasing more than 20% of the world’s economic activity would still be a devastating blow to human w
elfare,” the NYT states. “The paper’s detractors emphasize that climate change is a major threat, as recent meta analy
ses have found, and that more should be done to address it — but, they say, unusual results should be treated skeptically.”
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Asia’s Rising Climate Risk
Floods killed more than 1,300 people and caused at least $20 billion in losses since late November across parts of So
uth and Southeast Asia, devastation that highlights the increasing risks from climate change and extreme
weather for the fast-growing region, according to a Bloomberg story on Insurance Journal.
Three tropical cyclones combined with the northeast mon
soon for the most significant rainfall decades in some locations, we
aving a path of destruction that damaged homes, roads, crops, and slowed factory output.
“Scientists and analysts have pointed to the likely aggravating impact of climate change on the flooding, along wi
th exacerbating factors including deforestation, failures in flood defen
ses and a lack of funding for disaster resilience,” the Bloomberg article states.
By the first week of the storm, floods had already swamped more tha
n 800,000 households and rubber- and palm oil-producing areas in Thailand, and had displaced tens of thousands in Malaysia.