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Insurance Development Forum raises $340 million for Infrastructure Resilience Development Fund
This debt fund will invest in small to medium-sized commercial...
Ritu Arora appointed as Allianz Group’s Country Head of India
Ritu Arora, Country Head of India, Allianz In July 2025, Allianz...
Challenging Jan 1 renewals reflect a market seeking new equilibrium: Guy Carpenter
In a renewal season that was extremely late, ultimately, placements were largely completed at client issued structures and pricing, without many of the requested modifications in coverage Reinsurers presented fractured views at the outset, with more extreme coverage...
Russia-Ukraine conflict: more ship insurers exit war cover
At least 12 of the 13 organizations within the International Group of P&I Clubs — the main insurer of risks such as collisions and spills — have changed their policies to exclude claims stemming from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in recent days. The 13 clubs are...
China could see as many as 25,000 deaths a day from Covid-19 in Jan
The jump in cases has fueled concern across the globe about the emergence of new Covid variants that could be more contagious, lethal, or both. That has prompted numerous countries to adopt mandatory testing and entry restrictions for travelers from China, which also...
Outlook 2023: Negotiating a Hard Reinsurance Market
Shankar Garigiparthy,CEO & Country Manager, India Reinsurers have been supporting the Indian market for many years, and have been paying significant amount of claims. With a hardening reinsurance market globally, the Indian market is also likely to face these...
Unprecedented hard global reinsurance market to make Indian re/insurance renewals costlier in FY2023-24
`Devesh Srivastava,CMD, GIC Re Supply side issues like Russia Ukraine conflict, high global inflation, capacity crunch, shortage of capital, large losses including high losses from Hurricane Ian have forced global reinsurers to jack up their prices exorbitantly for...
Japan asks its insurers to retain marine war cover for LNG shippers in Russian waters
The move comes after Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance, Sompo Japan Insurance and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance on Friday told shipowners that they would stop offering marine war insurance, which covers damage to ships from war in Russian waters, from Jan Industry...
Cryptocurrency: Covering Losses
Lloyd’s recently announced a new policy to insure against losses stored on certain cryptocurrency wallets. Until the broader insurance market catches up with the rise of cryptocurrency and such insurance becomes more commonly used, most policyholders will need to look...
Epic winter storm brings frigid temps, snow and floods to US; over 200 million people affected
While it’s packing plenty of snow and frigid temperatures, the storm is mostly noteworthy for its size and speed. Snow, blizzard, freezes and flood warnings and advisories stretch across central and eastern US, its northern fringe and the Deep South, as well as into...
Rates to stay flat for Ukraine grain cargo insurance-Ascot
Aviation and marine war insurers are concerned that reinsurers – who insure the insurers – will exclude the whole Ukraine, Russia and Belarus region when reinsurance contracts come up for renewal on Jan. 1. A cargo insurance facility providing cover for shipments via...
New India launches Drone insurance, to cover physical damage to the aircraft and its theft
Neerja Kapur, CMD,NIA said, “India’s drone manufacturing industry clocked annual sales of Rs 60 crores in FY 2021 and is expected to grow to Rs 900 crores by FY 2024. Thanks to the impetus given by the Government of India through the liberalised Drone Rules, 2021,...