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AXA’s Garance Wattez-Richard bags “Geneva Association Women in Insurance Award” for initiatives on underserved populations
Ms Wattez-Richard founded AXA’s Emerging Customers business in 2016. It now distributes insurance to 18 million customers across Asia, Africa and Latin America by engaging over 50 public- and private-sector partners in 10 countries. Among its successes, AXA protects 500,000 entrepreneurs in Egypt, 75% of whom are women, and partners with Airtel Payment Bank in India to protect 3 million customers.
Coverage of Pandemic Risk through P/C Insurance could be designed like existing Federal Programs:US actuaries’ body
“Pandemic risk is more similar to the catastrophic risks covered by programs like the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program and the National Flood Insurance Program than to risks normally insured by the commercial insurance market, and any new federal program seeking to facilitate pandemic risk coverage should reflect that difference,” said Academy Vice President, Casualty, Lisa Slotznick, the signer of the letter on behalf of the Academy’s Casualty Practice Council to the House committee.
UK’s Brit and Google jointly to launch 1st fully digital Lloyd’s Syndicate
John Neal, Lloyd’s of London CEO said: “Ki truly embraces all that is represented in “The Future at Lloyd’s” by bringing data, technology, innovation and artificial intelligence to the fore in the complex world of corporate and specialty underwriting. It is an exciting first for Lloyd’s and paves the way for others to follow.”
French Mutual Covéa Scraps $9 Billion Purchase of PartnerRe from Exor
Under the original terms of the agreement with Covéa, Exor would have received an aggregate cash return of $3 billion from its purchase and disposal of PartnerRe, including dividends paid by the Bermuda-based group since 2016, Exor has said.
The MoU included a $175 mln penalty for Covéa to get out of the deal, according to a March report in the Italian daily newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore.
Covid-19 Pandemic: UK’s Airmic calls for change in approach to insurers’ pandemic response
Greater collaboration and communication between businesses, insurers and brokers to allow innovation and opportunity to emerge from the crisis.
Looking beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, Airmic supports the creation of national catastrophic pooling and reinsurance mechanisms, such as the existing UK pools for terrorism and flood. They must, however, be embedded in broader national and international risk strategies and should themselves be pooled to ensure the efficient use of capital, the association continued.
Covid-19 Pandemic:U.S. businesses,patients sue China seeking damages from Coronavirus outbreak
So far, at least nine lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. against China claiming authorities there did not do enough to corral the virus initially, tried to hide what was happening in the outbreak center of Wuhan and sought to conceal their actions and what they knew.
Eight of the lawsuits are potential class actions that would represent thousands of people and businesses. One was filed by the attorney general of Missouri, which is so far the only state to take legal action against China.
Covid-19 Pandemic:World’s top 100 most valuable insurers could lose $100bn in brand value
At the time of Covid-19 Pandemic, insurance firms damaged both financially and reputationally, as they face a surge in coronavirus-related claims and risk angering customers if they refuse to pay out.Chinese brands make up half of the top 10 insurance companies, while Allianz and Axa also rank among the most valuable firms.
“The Covid-19 pandemic is going to hit the insurance sector hard – Brand Finance has predicted that insurance brands could face up to a 20 per cent drop in brand value and undoubtedly, we are going to witness revenue slowdown for all brands across the sector,” said Brand Finance chief executive David Haigh.
International tourism could decline by 60-80 per cent in 2020: UN
Arrivals in March dropped sharply by 57 per cent following the start of a lockdown in many countries, as well as the widespread introduction of travel restrictions and the closure of airports and national borders. This translates into a loss of 67 million international arrivals and about USD 80 billion in receipts (exports from tourism).
Post-lockdown flights:Aarogya Setu app must,no cabin baggage initially
The Indian Railways, which had on Monday “advised” the passengers availing the special trains that started operating on Tuesday to install the government’s Aarogya Setu mobile application, has now made it “mandatory” to do so.
Covid-19 Pandemic:Insurers to see erase profits until 2021 second half, says Fitch
“The coronavirus pandemic will burden 2020/1H21 results, but will ultimately accelerate the hardening of the commercial insurance market,” said Robert Mazzuoli, Fitch analyst, in a statement in the report.