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Lloyd’s highlights risk of extreme space weather as latest scenario reveals potential global economic loss of $2.4trn
North America is identified as the region likely to be most...
P/C insurers to weather volatile natural Catastrophe Risks
The industry has ample capability to absorb individual large loss...
U.S. crop insurance payouts rise sharply as climate change worsens droughts, floods
Insurance payments to farmers due to drought rose more than 400% between 1995 and 2020 to $1.65 billion, while payments due to excess moisture – like floods - rose nearly 300% to $2.61 billion, according to the nonprofit environmental group, which examined publicly...
Cyber hostilities between India & Pakistan,China & Japan and Israel & Iran could escalate dangerously: CyberCube Report
Report identifies four industries that CyberCube believes will be targeted by cyber criminals – especially ransomware actors – in 2022. These are: healthcare, education, manufacturing and utilities. CyberCube also expects to see ransomware threat actors targeting...
Back in court – UK hospitality groups take on insurers over lockdown losses
Corbin & King, the owner of London's Wolseley and Delaunay restaurants is suing AXA for around 4.5 million pounds in a dispute that hinges in part on the scope of "denial of access" cover, designed to protect insured venues that are shut by public authorities on...
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...