23 October 2017
Global companies increasingly want cyber coverage to plug gaps in their business interruption and contingent business interruption insurance, according to Munich Re and specialist insurer Beazley…
23 October 2017
Optimism surrounds the US property and casualty market but challenging headwinds remain, according to a Guy Carpenter report…
23 October 2017
Munich Re has set up a project team to consider the risks and challenges of a capsule-based transport system under development by Hyperloop Transportation Technologies…
16 October 2017
Commercial insurers are finding new ways to take on risks once seen as difficult or impossible to cover, according to the latest Swiss Re Sigma report…
16 October 2017
Insured catastrophe losses for the third quarter may exceed $US100 billion, with reinsurers likely to take the biggest hit, according to S&P Global Ratings…
16 October 2017
Hurricanes that made landfall in the US this season were within modelled expectations and reinsurance capital levels are above anticipated losses, JLT Re says…
16 October 2017
Insurers must embrace new technology more quickly or risk losing control of the industry to their digital rivals, Lloyd’s Chairman Bruce Carnegie-Brown says…
16 October 2017
A disruption of cloud systems could cause losses of $US15.6-$US121.4 billion, with an insurance gap as high as 83%, insurers estimate…
16 October 2017
The global marine market faces a challenging and uncertain outlook after premiums last year fell 9%, continuing a downward trend…
16 October 2017
Wider adoption of distributed ledger technologies such as blockchain faces numerous challenges, according to a benchmarking study by EY, the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and Visa…
16 October 2017
Economic losses from wildfires in northern California will range from $US3 billion to $US6 billion, according to catastrophe modeller RMS…
16 October 2017
Understanding of terrorism risk insurance is lacking and risk managers must do their homework before deciding between traditional or standalone policies, according to a Risk and Insurance Management Society report…
16 October 2017
Losses from the hurricanes that devastated the Caribbean and US states of Texas and Florida are running into the billions, according to estimates from major insurers…
16 October 2017
Hurricane Nate will probably cost insurers less than $US500 million ($635 million), according to catastrophe modeller RMS.
09 October 2017
Political volatility and a high-value, low-volume merger and acquisition environment are to blame for the weaker performance of insurers that made acquisitions last year, according to Willis Towers Watson…
09 October 2017
Insurance rates in the US will rise next quarter due to the impact of recent hurricanes, MarketScout says…
09 October 2017
Innovation “accelerators” are increasingly uniting insurers with technology start-ups in the US, Europe and Asia, according to a report by researcher Celent and Guy Carpenter…
09 October 2017
The past three months may stand as one of the worst quarters on record for natural disasters, according to Aon Benfield subsidiary Impact Forecasting…
09 October 2017
Hurricane Nate made its second landfall this morning near Biloxi, Mississippi, as a Category 1 storm, after first crossing the coast hitting near the mouth of the Mississippi River the day before…
09 October 2017
Cyber insurance is a profitable line for new market entrants and is expected to grow significantly over the next decade, but with this comes a raft of new risks, according to a report by Fitch…