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- August 10 2022
Seoul flooding leaves Korean P&C players facing thousands of claims: report
Insurers including Samsung Fire & Marine and DB Insurance said the damages amount to several billion won.
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- August 9 2022
Japan and India drive up Munich Re’s 1.4 renewals
H1 operating profits down 34% on Australian flood hit and poor investment returns.
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- August 9 2022
Chubb promotes Serene Neo to head of Singapore consumer lines
Neo reports to Kevin Bogardus, country president for Chubb Singapore.
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- August 8 2022
BHSI launches Australasia commercial hull line with ex-QBE hire
Jake Hesson will help expand the specialty player's marine product portfolio.
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- August 8 2022
Allianz sees H1 P&C revenue decline in China but rise in Australia
Westpac GI integration in Australia helped GWP but it was hampered by Chinese economic conditions.
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- August 5 2022
China Re estimates H1 profit to slide 40-50%
The reinsurer attributed the drop largely to a decline in investment income.
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- August 5 2022
Crawford hires former McLarens exec as head of loss adjusting, GBA
Jackson Zeng is based in the firm's Guangzhou office.
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- August 4 2022
Hannover Re taps Swiss Re’s Sharon Ooi to boost Asia P&C expansion
CEO Jean-Jacques Henchoz says Asia Pacific is "evolving into the world’s largest insurance market."
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- August 4 2022
New Zealand’s climate plan urges development of home flood insurance
The country’s first climate adaptation document wants to address affordability of cover.
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- August 3 2022
APAC (re)insurers prioritise pricing amid inflation pressure
APAC non-life GWP and rates will continue to climb, but the pace of growth is a mixed picture across the region.
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- August 3 2022
Urban floods in India, China and Bangladesh spurred H1 cat losses: Swiss Re
Floods in Australia were the costliest cat event in H1 2022 in terms of insured losses.
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- August 1 2022
Malayan Insurance COR hampered by fire and cat losses: AM Best
The company reported a five-year average combined ratio of 101.4%.
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- July 29 2022
Asia firms face ‘lack of skills’ to deal with cybersecurity threat: survey
Only 48% of respondents in Asia believe that their company has effective cyber policies, according to Marsh Mercer Benefits.
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- July 28 2022
Liberty Specialty Markets promotes Marian Parzakonis to senior manager role
Parzakonis continues to be based in Sydney.
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- July 28 2022
Australia floods and Japan earthquake lead H1 2022 APAC insured losses: Aon
The total costs of the two disasters totaled US$6.2bn in insured losses.
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- July 27 2022
McLarens taps Crawford exec as operations manager in Australia
Darren McKinnon will continue to be based in Brisbane.
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- July 26 2022
Cambodia’s GWP grew 20% on average annually for five years: report
The market maintained positive growth of around 10% in 2021.
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- July 25 2022
Marine, property and liability drive China Merchants Insurance’s premium growth: AM Best
The Hong Kong insurer's premium revenue grew by 11.8% in 2021.
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- July 22 2022
Chubb promotes Christian Falkingham to head of major accounts, Australia & New Zealand
Falkingham will report to Chris Gough, Chubb's head of property & casualty, Australia & New Zealand.
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- July 21 2022
Generali Global Corporate & Commercial hires Swiss Re exec as Asia head of claims
Hong Kong-based Emma Ng will report to Axel Roesner, head of GC&C Asia.
