Under the original terms of the agreement with Covéa, Exor would have received an aggregate cash return of $3 billion from its purchase and disposal of PartnerRe, including dividends paid by the Bermuda-based group since 2016, Exor has said.
The MoU included a $175 mln penalty for Covéa to get out of the deal, according to a March report in the Italian daily newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore.

UK Financial Services firms weigh options for Post-Coronavirus work arrangements

May 13, 2020

“As insurance moves to more remote working, there is a greater risk of fraud and hacking,” said Bruce Carnegie-Brown, chairman of the Lloyd’s of London insurance market.

Covid-19 Pandemic: UK’s Airmic calls for change in approach to insurers’ pandemic response

May 13, 2020

Greater collaboration and communication between businesses, insurers and brokers to allow innovation and opportunity to emerge from the crisis.
Looking beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, Airmic supports the creation of national catastrophic pooling and reinsurance mechanisms, such as the existing UK pools for terrorism and flood. They must, however, be embedded in broader national and international risk strategies and should themselves be pooled to ensure the efficient use of capital, the association continued.

Coverage of Pandemic Risk through P/C Insurance could be designed like existing Federal Programs:US actuaries’ body

May 13, 2020

“Pandemic risk is more similar to the catastrophic risks covered by programs like the Terrorism Risk Insurance Program and the National Flood Insurance Program than to risks normally insured by the commercial insurance market, and any new federal program seeking to facilitate pandemic risk coverage should reflect that difference,” said Academy Vice President, Casualty, Lisa Slotznick, the signer of the letter on behalf of the Academy’s Casualty Practice Council to the House committee.

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