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Cyber Security&Covid-19
If you have effective cyber incident response, crisis management and/or business recovery plans in place, it is important to review them in light of your new operating environment. Can you access all the equipment you will need to test or reset? Is your data still being backed up to a secure site? Can your users still effectively report phishing or other indicators of cyber incidents? How are you going to maintain communication between the key crisis managers if all your laptops and mobiles get encrypted with ransomware? If your plan isn’t tested yet, now may be the wrong time to start – but at a minimum do all the relevant staff at least have a clear understanding of the plan, and how your current situation has altered it?
Anamika Roy Rashtrawar appointed as the MD & CEO of IFFCO Tokio General Insurance
Rashtrawar had joined IFFCO TOKIO General Insurance as a whole-time director on 1st June 2018. She spearheaded the company’s business transformation project and expanded the company’s operations in tier 2,3, 4 towns. She is a firm believer in building distribution network for increasing penetration of general insurance and simplification of business processes to make Insurance services simple for the customer
Multiple billion-dollar severe weather outbreaks affect the U.S. during March, Aon cat report
Steve Bowen, Director and Meteorologist within Aon’s Impact Forecasting team, said: “With the globe continuing to focus on the risks associated with COVID-19, natural peril activity remained elevated during the month of March as thunderstorms, flooding, and earthquakes were all prevalent.”
Insurers return part of auto premiums as coronavirus cuts driving
Aviva Canada custmers who have stopped driving entirely, could reduce their auto insurance premiums by up to 75%.
Climate-change effects to drive rising losses from severe weather events:Sigma study
Worldwide, economic losses from natural and man-made disasters in 2019 were USD 146 billion, lower than USD 176 billion in 2018 and the previous 10-year annual average of USD 212 billion. The global insurance industry covered USD 60 billion of the losses, compared with USD 93 billion in 2018 and USD 75 billion on average in the previous 10 years.
“To uphold the insurance risk transfer model as a powerful tool to foster resilience, insurers need to adapt before, not post events,” Martin Bertogg, Head of Catastrophe Perils at Swiss Re said. “To this end, insurers should be wary of historical loss records in understanding today’s state of the socio-economic environment and climate. Averaging out over a past spanning multiple decades can lead to distorted risk assessment.”
Merging PSBs can continue their existing bancassurance partnerships for a year:IRDAI
Punjab National Bank (PNB) has absorbed Oriental Bank of Commerce and United Bank — which makes it India’s second-largest bank after State Bank of India (SBI).Similarly, Syndicate Bank merges with Canara Bank, Union Bank of India absorbs both Andhra Bank and Corporation Bank. Indian Bank and Allahabad Bank’s merger also comes into effect from April 1
Peak Re to acquire Bermuda based ILS asset manager Lutece
“The acquisition of Lutece carries Peak Re forward in its aspirations in ILS by bringing Lutece’s expertise in house. This will definitely be accretive to our capabilities in capital and third party capital management,” says Franz Josef Hahn,Peak RE CEO
Markel International appoints 2 marine underwriters in Asian markets
Nitin and Danielle will both be responsible for developing Markel’s Asia marine underwriting expertise in the Indian and Hong Kong markets respectively, working closely with Colin Fordham, Director of Markel in Asia and leader of Markel’s growing marine presence in the region.
Coronavirus Pandemic: Short-term closure of plants or premises can pose risks for companies:AGCS Study
“We already see a number of losses that occur on holidays or weekends when employees are not largely present on sites or premises,” says Ralf Dumke, Regional Head of Risk Consulting Property, AGCS Central & Eastern Europe: “The production and operating shutdowns currently being caused by the coronavirus pandemic can also bring increasing hazards for businesses.
IRDAI asks insurers to follow rules strictly in paying commissions to the intermediaries
The board approved policy should stipulate the specific proportion of rewards to commission/remuneration which sholud be reasonable and justifiable, to individual insurance agent/insurance intermediary subject to the overall limit as specified in the existing regulations-Reg 6(d)(ii) and 6(e)(ii) of IRDAI (Payment of commission or remuneration or reward to insurance agents and insurance intermediaries) Regulations, 2016.