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Safer skies but claims and risks grow

The report, which analyzes more than 50,000 aviation insurance industry claims worth more than €14.8bn ($16.3bn) from 2013 to  2018[1], reveals that collision/crash incidents currently account for over half the value of all claims (57%) equivalent to €8.4bn ($9.3bn) – and over a quarter of claims by number (27%). In future, more costly grounding incidents, business interruption incidents resulting from cyber and drone events, and more incidences of turbulence are just some of the trends expected to have an influence on the loss landscape, the report notes.

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AIR Worldwide launches Multi-peril Crop Insurance Model for India

It also features a historical catalog of losses based on a recast of the years 1979 through 2017. Both the stochastic and historic recast yield and loss catalogs reflect current crop “technology” levels (for example, current crop genetics, farmer skill, availability of chemical inputs), insurable exposure by district, and PMFBY (Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana) policy conditions as revised in late 2018

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Q3 non-life ILS capacity at near-record high of $27.3 billion:Willis Re

The ILS sector has reached a dynamic equilibrium and is well positioned for growth. Alternative capital in all its forms is clearly growing again, notwithstanding the losses and related loss creep of the past several years. This rising tide will not raise all ships, however. Some managers, sectors, and strategies have outperformed, and are now benefitting as a result, while others remain under stress

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India pulls out of RCEP, paves way for 15 nations to sign China-backed deal

India conveyed its decision to exit the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, foreign ministry official Vijay Thakur Singh told reporters in Bangkok on Monday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted that he was guided by the impact it would have on the lives and livelihoods of all Indians, especially vulnerable sections of society, she said.

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Govt appoints Raj Kumar and Gupta as MDs of LIC

The Bureau of Banking Board(BBB), an exclusive body to choose  the CEOs of public sector banks  and insurance companies, on  Aug 27,. had conducted  the interviews  of senior officialsof the  LIC and public sector general insurance industry, for  selecting CMDs of  GIC Re , Agriculture Insurance Company(AIC) and two MDs of LIC  and had selected Raj Kumar and Gupta  as the MDS of LIC and Devesh  Srivastav and Malay Podday as the CMD of GIC Re and AIC respectively.

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