The ministry suspects that both engines shut down shortly before...
Category:
Reinsurance
Latest
2nd Edition of IFSCA-IRDAI GIFT IFSC Global Reinsurance Summit in Mumbai on Jan 20
2nd Edition of IFSCA-IRDAI GIFT IFSC Global Reinsurance...
CoreLogic estimates California wildfire insured losses at $35 to $45 billion
This analysis of both residential and commercial properties...
COVID-19 stalls growth in MENA insurance markets: AM Best
The report highlights some common themes as weaknesses, the most important of which is risk governance, with companies adopting basic or minimum requirements to run their businesses LONDON: Middle East and North Africa (MENA) insurance markets have seen robust growth...
UK regulatory shake-up could address lack of domestic commercial reinsurance -lobby group
Britain's upper chamber of parliament, the House of Lords, said late last week that its Industry and Regulators committee of lawmakers was launching an inquiry into the regulation of the London insurance market and how to improve the regulatory set-up for the industry...
Cyber perils outrank Covid-19 and broken supply chains as top business risk globally and in Asia Pacific: Allianz Risk Barometer 2022
Cyber incidents tops the Allianz Risk Barometer for only the second time in the survey’s history (44% of responses), Business interruption drops to a close second (42%) and Natural catastrophes ranks third (25%), up from sixth in 2021 London/Munich/New...
IRDAI reduces general insurers’ obligatory cession for GIC Re to 4 % from 5 % in FY 2023
The approximate size of the Indian reinsurnace market is around Rs 55,000 cror in FY.2020-21. To begin with, obligatory cession for GIC Re was 10 per cent which was reduced to five per cent afterwards and the foreign reinsurers which are having braches in India are...
SCOR and Swedish pension fund Alecta enter a strategic partnership through the Atlas Gotland sidecar
With this investment, Alecta will benefit from the performance of SCOR Global P&C’s diversified portfolio of property catastrophe reinsurance through a multi-year agreement Paris: SCOR announces that it has secured a USD 200 Million investment by the Swedish...
Lloyd’s and London market insurers tap DXC Technology to transform the world’s largest insurance marketplace
John Neal, CEO of Lloyd’s said: “With the respective commitments of DXC, Lloyd’s and the entire London market, we have the capabilities to transition to a single platform solution that will provide automated processing and accounting for the market, a substantial...
New life reinsurer “Martello Re” launched, funded by MassMutual, Centerbridge Partners and Brown Brothers Harriman
The company will initially focus on providing MassMutual and its subsidiaries with reinsurance capacity on current product offerings, after which it will offer its services selectively to other top insurers in the life and annuity space HAMILTON, Bermuda and...
‘Significant discipline’ at Jan. 1 reinsurance renewals may set tone for ’22:S&P
Retrocession capacity is becoming scarcer and more expensive, particularly at lower coverage layers and where it is offering protection against loss frequency. This is because capital markets investors who finance a large part of the market have grown weary of...
FOCUS-Life insurers adapt pandemic risk models after claims jump
Claims rose most in the United States, India, and South Africa due to the more lethal variants and a rise in fatalities or illnesses among younger and unvaccinated groups The global life insurance industry was hit with reported claims due to COVID-19 of $5.5 billion...
U.S. business fears never ending liability from ‘take-home’ COVID-19 lawsuits
The Dec. 21 ruling allowed a wrongful death lawsuit to proceed against See's Candies Inc, owned by Berkshire Hathaway, by the family of Arturo Ek of Los Angeles who died in April 2020 at 72 from COVID-19 As COVID-19 cases surge in the United States, businesses say...