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Radian to acquire Inigo for $1.7 billion, to become a global multi-line specialty insurer
The company’s expansion into the Lloyd’s global specialty market...
Gallagher teams up with Vanguard Tech to support clients with maritime risk and security insight
Gallagher can now provide clients with a tool which helps to...
MS Amlin launches new AI-powered claims triage process to support operational transformation
The new state-of-the art-triage process embeds an artificial intelligence (AI) model, which assesses and assigns claims based on certain criteria and proprietary scoring algorithms, into MS Amlin’s claims workflow LONDON: MS Amlin, the Lloyd’s global (re)insurer,...
FSIB selects Ramaswamy for GIC Re top post, Rajeswari Singh as NIC CMD
N Ramaswamy, general manger, GIC Re Four senior officials who had appeared for the virtual interview are- N Ramaswamy, general manager, GIC Re, Hitesh Joshi, general manger, GIC Re, M Rajeswari Singh, general manger & director, United India Insurance, BS Rahul,...
Geneva Association celebrates its 50th anniversary
Christian Mumenthaler, Chairman of The Geneva Association and Group CEO of Swiss Re, said: “What stands out, above all, is how insurers and reinsurers have dutifully confronted the world’s biggest challenges in the name of building resilience. In the uncertain times...
New Zealand offers to buy out owners of homes damaged by Cyclone
Together with local councils, the government will offer to buy as many as 700 residential properties across the North Island that were damaged by Cyclone Gabrielle and heavy flooding earlier this year, Finance Minister Grant Robertson said Thursday in Wellington. It...
June 1 Renewals: Property-catastrophe pricing up 33%, says Howden Tiger
P&C reinsurance prices up an average 33% at 1 June (highest since early 90s), driven by financial market volatility, inflation, geopolitical tensions, recent weather losses and the Turkey earthquakeReinsurers are in a period of “heightened risk aversion” and stand...
Digitally advanced countries trust less on artificial intelligence: Swiss Re report
The most AI-trusting people hail from emerging digital growth markets such as India, Nigeria, Mexico, Indonesia, Philippines and Argentina` `What is surprising in 'Decoding Digital Trust: A consumer perspective' is that countries with advanced levels of digital...
Shipping Safety: Losses hit a record low in 2022, but jump in fires, other challenges
A combination of factors impacting fire risk, ongoing and new threats posed by the ripple effects of the Ukraine conflict, decarbonization challenges, economic uncertainty, as well as the rising cost of marine claims, means the sector still has plenty of obstacles to...
Japan’s largest insurer Tokio Marine joins defectors from Gfanz climate group
A spokesperson said Tokio Marine will continue to consider measures to realize a decarbonized society such as the use of renewable energy and emphasized it will keep a close eye on social and environmental causes Tokio Marine Holdings Inc., Japan’s largest insurer by...
19th SIRC 2023 on ‘(RE)INSURANCE RESET’ will be held in Singapore from 30 October to 2 November, will be an all in-person event
The Singapore Reinsurers’ Association (SRA) Chair, Marc Haushofer said “The SRA Executive Committee (EXCO) had deliberated intensely over the messaging that would appropriately encapsulate the state of the industry today, which had over the past few months displayed...
Typhoon Mawar is most powerful storm of 2023, so far
Mawar is now one of the three strongest storms ever to hit the North Pacific in May and is the undisputed most powerful — in terms of windspeed — of 2023 so far, according to Jeff Masters, a meteorologist for Yale Climate Connections. But there is still a lot of year...