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- May 28 2025
With Australia, India and China inundated by record floods, voices swell to rewrite the nat cat lexicon
Floods in Australia have been widely described as a one-in-500-year event, but such categorisations are now being seen as harmful to the insurance industry.
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- May 22 2025
Clear resilience playbook, new DNA needed as climate challenge grows: Marsh’s Beverley Adams
Head of climate and catastrophe resilience tells InsuranceAsia News that as businesses, including in Asia Pacific, transition to a low-carbon future, insurers are increasingly being asked to play a part in the finance and risk management of projects.
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- May 19 2025
Blunt warning for Lloyd’s syndicates from incoming CEO, market urged to avoid ‘travesty’
With 15 Asian service companies in Singapore, Patrick Tiernan urges self-diagnose amid a fragile market, while CUO Rachel Turk warns of a 'critical junction'.
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- May 12 2025
Green transition to test industry’s relevance as debate intensifies, LMA’s Paul Davenport says
Lloyd’s Market Association finance and risk director made the comments after it had been suggested that insurers have often been seen as 'going missing in action' when it came to the structure of green finance for projects.
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- May 7 2025
Asia firmly in Markel’s sights as it seeks to ‘equip, empower’ amid global leadership shake up
Lloyd’s underwriter continues the hunt for an Asia Pacific CEO to succeed Christian Stobbs, who is returning to the UK.
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- April 30 2025
MIA no longer an excuse: time for insurers to create vintage blended solution to aid green finance
Leading climate experts have urged insurers to play a role in driving green finance and investments by supporting the risks of the new technology that will power the world’s energy future.
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- April 29 2025
‘Time to act is now’: known unknowns pose real risk to renewable energy future
Growing number of green energy projects in Australia are facing ever more extreme weather risks, with insurers unable to access data and modelling to adequately understand their exposures.
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- April 11 2025
London market ‘dismayed’ as Blueprint 2 testing delay could stretch to 2027
Leading figures backed the move to push back the transformational initiative, but one leading figure tells InsuranceAsia News the implementation could go beyond next year.
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- April 10 2025
With wildfires becoming more intense, damaging and frequent, insurers eye new approaches to coverage
Events in South Korea and Japan highlight the rising threat of wildfire risks in areas and nations where they have traditionally been seen as a non-peak peril.
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- April 8 2025
‘Picky and choosy’ Asta owner Davies seeks to remain on the front foot, with Asia in its sights
Region is very much a part of the insurance-focused professional services provider's strategy for 2030 and beyond, CEO Dan Saulter tells InsuranceAsia News.
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- April 7 2025
New cyber liability ‘risk is real’ for Australian insurers after privacy law change
Cyber Security Act, accompanied by the Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024, has increased the companies' responsibilities around cybersecurity, law firms say.
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- April 3 2025
Opinion: As changes at the top leave Lloyd’s exposed, does opportunity knock for Asia?
CEO John Neal is leaving this year, but a replacement has not been found, while the market is also getting a new CFO and chairman at the start of May.
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- March 28 2025
With floods high on the list of perils in Asia, modeller gets its feet wet into China and Australia
JBA has announced a partnership with China’s Ping An Insurance and has also launched a new comprehensive Australian inland flood model.
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- March 21 2025
Lloyd’s looks beyond Asia for growth: John Neal
APMEA platform’s 2024 GWP was up 9% year-over-year at US$9.5bn, while global premiums were up 6.5% to US$72bn.
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- March 20 2025
IUA CEO Dave Matcham to depart after 2 decades of ‘passion’ for Asia
At a turbulent time for London market, Matcham is set to be replaced by International Underwriting Association (IUA) director of legal underwriting and claims, Chris Jones, at the start of May.
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- March 17 2025
Just the tip of a liability iceberg as PFAS risks become apparent, but legal reform roadblocks remain
Firms are set to be drawn into litigation, but changes to the law in Australia are unlikely as they could potentially open the government to significant risks, according to a Sydney-based lawyer.
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- March 6 2025
Storm in a teacup? Market divided over underwriting solar risk for ‘unprepared world’
Modelled impact for Asia Pacific from a sudden and intense burst of radiation and energetic particles from the Sun is pegged at US$375bn and US$428bn for greater China.
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- February 25 2025
Drive for data to plug flood modelling holes continues as risks rise for Asia
Region is most at risk from substantial rainfall changes, according to new research, but for many areas, detailed data is still not accessible.
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- February 20 2025
Time to take plunge on new risk pools as dangers mount, brokers say, but ‘major questions exist’
Lockton Re and Howden Re highlight cyber risks and the wake-up call following the Los Angeles wildfires.
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- February 13 2025
As Trump plays a ‘treacherous trade game’, tariffs solve nothing, leading underwriter says
Sean Dalton, vice president of the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI), says the rising risks of an all-out trade war between the US and China are a huge concern for insurers and clients.
