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WTW and SOMPO announce global partnership to deploy Radar for its non-life insurance services
Tadashi Yamanaka, executive officer of System at Sompo Direct...
Global P&C insurance market sees efficiency, capacity and resilience: Swiss Re
Jérôme Jean Haegeli, Swiss Re's Global Chief Economist, says: “The...
WTW combines Asia and Australasia into one Asia Pacific, appoints Simon Weaver to head new region
Based in Australia, Simon is responsible for driving business growth throughout the newly integrated region, enabling closer collaboration across the businesses to deliver superior advice, broking and solutions in the areas of people, risk and capital to organisations...
InsuranceDekho receives Rs 300 crore of funding from Goldman Sachs Grp, valued at Rs 1100 crore
The sole source of income for Insurance Dekho is insurance brokerage and commission, which increased by 61% to Rs 47.91 crore in FY22 from Rs 29.71 crore in FY22. In the most recent fiscal year, the company’s losses increased by 55.6% to Rs 72.29 crore. At the group...
Jan1Renewals: Reinsurers hike rates on key business lines by as much as 200%, exclude Russia and Ukraine
Aviation reinsurance rates, heavily impacted by hundreds of stranded aircraft in Russia, rose by as much as 200%, Gallagher Re said. “The sector is experiencing its most acute, cyclical price increases since the 2001-2006 period, if not before,” said David Flandro,...
Google, YouTube content providers must face US children’s privacy lawsuit
The lawsuit alleged that Google’s data collection violated similar state laws, and that YouTube content providers such as Hasbro Inc, Mattel Inc, the Cartoon Network and DreamWorks Animation lured children to their channels, knowing that they would be tracked U.S....
China in a bind: Whether to recover economy or control Covid spike
Analysts have forecast China's economic growth to slump to 2.8-3.2 per cent this year, which would be the lowest in five decades. China has, for the first time, officially acknowledged Covid deaths in recent weeks. This has given credibility to reports of heavy death...
IRDAI asks re/insurers not to use IIB burning rate as minimum rates within `Reinsurance Treaty Agreements’
Given the tough conditions at 1/1 renewals and shortage of proportional capacity that is being witnessed elsewhere for India reinsurers may insist on more retention and trend will continue for non proportional arrangements . At the same time as the non IIB rates are...
Insurers may refuse to cover planes flying to Ukraine or ships sailing through Black Sea
As they operate on an “aggregation” basis with marine and aviation war risk insurance, totting up the losses as one, claims in one area make reinsurers wary about the whole war risk sector, David Smith, head of hull and marine liabilities at broker McGill and Partners...
Aditya Birla Capital mulls selling its insurance brokerage unit
The publicly-traded company has held talks with potential buyers about a sale of Aditya Birla Insurance Brokers Ltd. as it failed to scale up the 19-year-old business, the people said, asking not to be identified as the information is not public. Mumbai: Aditya Birla...
Govt makes 5 of IRDAI’s board decisions into regulations in less than a fortnight
Industry observers said with the speed government has notified some of the IRDAI's decisions shows its priority on the issue of penetration in the insurance sector. It is expected that the government may deal with the proposed amendments in the two Insurance Acts-...
WTW appoints William Miller as Head of Crisis Management for APAC
Luke Ware, Head of Corporate Risk & Broking Asia, WTW said: “As geopolitical tensions rise, individuals and businesses are exposed to a wider range of security risks which is why we have expanded our offering to include domains such as Special Crime and high-risk...