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Reinsurance Prices Drop – Despite 2018’s Big Natural Catastrophe Losses: JLT Re
Insurers and reinsurers faced a bill of $80 billion from several catastrophes in 2018 including hurricanes Florence and Michael, typhoons Jebi, Mangkhut and Trami, flooding in Western Japan and the California wildfires.
January Renewals show higher prices for clients with poor loss records: Willis Re
In property catastrophe renewals, cedants with good loss records and a disciplined, early renewal process achieved risk-adjusted rate reductions, while loss impacted accounts are seeing upward pricing across a number of lines. Some primary lines are seeing significantly larger rate increases than treaty reinsurance business
Indonesian tsunami insurance claims may reach $1.09 bn
According to insurance companies PT Maskapai Reasuransi Indonesia (REI) and PT Asuransi Maipark Indonesia, there were at least 191 insurance risks from the disaster, which killed at least 430 people and devastated thousands of homes, buildings and infrastructure.
10 global re/insurers refuse cover to Adani Group’s $16.5bn Australian coal mine
A campaign by 73 prominent environmental organizations,which collectively represent 76 million members, penned a letter to 30 global re/insurance companies earlier this month urging them to rule out any providing any services for the controversial coal mine and its associated rail project
Marriott Breach losses to be between $200 mn and $600 mn:AIR
“AIR’s new probabilistic security breach model shows that this type of event is not unprecedented, even though an event of this magnitude hasn’t previously happened to a hotel chain,” said Scott Stransky, assistant vice president and director of emerging risk modeling, AIR Worldwide.
“In fact, the largest recorded breach for a U.S.-based hotel chain prior to this event was less than 1/50 the size in terms of the number of records stolen. There are more than 300 simulated events in our model that cause higher losses for U.S.-based hotels.”
Govt plans Rs 12,000-levy on petrol, diesel cars to spur EV demand: Report
Under a new policy that is nearing finalisation, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI), a government policy think-tank, has proposed incentives of up to Rs 25,000 -50,000 be directly transferred to EV buyers, ensuring that gains are not pocketed by auto manufacturers, government officials told TOI.
HDFC Int Life & Re assigned “BBB” rating with stable outlook by S&P
Its business consists of both treaty and facultative reinsurance arrangements assumed from ceding companies in the GCC region, relating to a broad range of life insurance product lines covering individual life, group life and group credit life
Novartis may team with Reinsurers to cut Drug Costs, FT Reports
Reinsurers, which already provide a backstop to employer health insurance plans, could benefit from this new revenue amid increasing competition from rival sources of risk capital, the FT said. Reinsurers could pool the costs of treatments by different drug companies across countries
J&J begins settling Pinnacle Hip Implant defect claims
J&J is set to face a trial Jan. 14 in Dallas where five recipients of the Pinnacle hip will press claims that the world’s largest health-care products company failed to warn customers about the devices’ risks. A similar 2016 case produced a $1 billion verdict for multiple plaintiffs.
Revised Reinsurance Norms:Order of Preference, GIC Re’s ` first right to refusal’ retained, ART relaunched
Among other new significant decisions, the revised reinsurance guidelines approved by the IRDAI board almost three months back but gazetted on Wednesday, however removed the `Order of preference’ for the life reinsurance business, put a cap on how much a cross boarder reinsurer can do business with a nonlife insurer in a specific portfolio, lays out detailed guidelines for the reinsurers on how to do their reinsurance business(, termed as retrocession) with their board approvals, relaunching the banned alternative risk transfer business (ART)