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- August 29 2024
Bruce Dettling to oversee Australia as Gallagher’s global head of mining and heavy industry
In this newly created role, London-based Dettling who joins from Aon will report to Malcolm Payton, CEO, property & casualty insurance solutions and head of global fac at Gallagher Specialty.
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- August 27 2024
Opinion: Mpox cases with deadlier strain send jitters across Asian P&C market
While the number of cases is still limited in the region, a potential spreading of the virus, especially the mutated clade 1b strain, could disrupt fragile supply chains already impacted by the curtailment of shipping in the Red Sea and result in potential BI losses.
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- August 22 2024
Climate change exposes banks to ‘silent’ risks as insurance gets more unaffordable: Aon
Banks can leverage on tools and datasets that insurers have been using for pricing climate risks. Alternative risk transfer tool such as parametrics can also provide additional protection, the broker said.
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- August 8 2024
Cyber wordings, limits set to tighten as CrowdStrike points to ambiguity in cover
The industry needs to address accumulation risks, data gaps and further threats from large-scale events that are becoming more frequent.
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- July 31 2024
Cyber market is in need of more buyers, says QBE’s Serene Davis
The market is at an inflection point amid predictions that it will undergo significant growth as the world recovers from the CrowdStrike outage, but underwriters will have to look at new countries and clients to hit those projections.
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- July 30 2024
Up to US$40bn additional property cat limit purchased in H1: Guy Carpenter
Greater market stability, and moderating pricing in a number of segments, provided cedents with better ability to budget for additional levels of coverage, the reinsurance broker said in it mid-year report.
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- July 29 2024
Space insurance struggles amid billion-dollar+ claims, scarce premium pool
While the market has seen a doubling of rates recently, shrinking underwriting capacity and technology changes add further challenges to the industry reeling from recent large losses.
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- July 29 2024
CrowdStrike IT outage could be earnings event, impact multiple carriers: AM Best
Since insurers have been tightening underwriting standards through increased retentions, manageable limits, shifting their focus to small and medium-size enterprises, the use of reinsurance, the event has potential to be a contracted claims and legal process, according to the rating agency.
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- July 22 2024
BI claims in focus as carriers assess losses amid global tech outage
The event could impact other lines beyond cyber including tech errors and omissions, D&O, and insurers may see liability and supply chain disruption claims.
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- July 19 2024
Global tech outage could see claims snowball but insurers ‘wait-and-watch’
The impact on the industry will depend on the “waiting period” , however, there could be long-term BI and other complex claims.
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- July 19 2024
Noto earthquake, China floods among costliest H1 2024 economic loss events: Aon
The Noto earthquake remained the costliest event of the year to date in terms of total economic losses with more than U$17bn in direct damage, according to the broker's new cat recap report for the first six months of the year.
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- July 18 2024
Commercial property specialist FM Global rebrands as FM
FM will serve as the parent brand for its flagship mutual insurance company and commercial property insurer AFM.
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- July 10 2024
Chubb promotes Marcos Gunn as head of APAC, Paul McNamee as president of overseas GI
McNamee will be in charge of Chubb's general insurance business in 51 countries outside of North America, as Marcos Gunn will succeed his previous role as head of Asia Pacific, both effective immediately.
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- July 9 2024
Civil unrest, terrorism threats linger as Paris Olympics opens doors to 11 million visitors: WTW
The Games could point to more political violence losses as the anti-pension reform protesters have threatened to undermine the hosting of the event.
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- July 6 2024
APAC to account for 8% of non-US cyber premium growth by 2030: Howden
Despite cyber insurance pricing dropping by 15% from the 2022-peak, growth opportunities abound especially among new geographies such as Asia Pacific, and niche segment such as SMEs, Howden said in its annual cyber report.
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- July 4 2024
Zurich-owned Cover-More announces new group CEO
David Fike will lead the company through a significant integration phase following Zurich's acquisition of AIG's global personal travel insurance and assistance business.
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- July 3 2024
Pricing and capacity ease at 1.7 renewal as underwriting scrutiny persists: brokers
Reinsurance buyers experienced a more welcoming market, and loss-free programs saw price easing at July 1 renewals compared to recent years thanks to positive results, Gallagher Re and Guy Carpenter said in their mid-year renewals reports.
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- June 26 2024
Zurich to buy AIG travel insurance business for US$600m
The Swiss insurer will add AIG's Travel Guard brand to Cover-More, which will take the business to a combined annual GWP of about US$2bn.
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- June 24 2024
QBE hires Marsh veteran Julie Minor as global distribution head
Before joining the insurer, Minor was a managing director at Marsh and has over 20 years of experience in senior management roles.
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- June 14 2024
Opinion: Brokers keen to see underwriters back in the market
The post-pandemic hybrid environment and the development of AI means that queries and placements are significantly lacking in any human interaction for increasingly commoditised risks.
