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- July 26 2024
Typhoon Gaemi to make landfall in mainland China after hitting Taiwan and the Philippines
The storm, which landed near the city of Hualien that faced losses from an earthquake earlier this year, is believed to be the most powerful storm to hit Taiwan in eight years.
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- July 25 2024
CrowdStrike event to cost cyber insurers up to US$1.5bn: CyberCube
The loss caused by the outage amounts to the largest single insured loss event in the past 20 years of the cyber insurance industry.
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- July 25 2024
Howden appoints Ngoensin Sutipitawkong as major accounts senior director in Thailand
Based in Bangkok, he joins Howden from Lockton where he was a director for three years from June 2021.
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- July 25 2024
Seadrif adds Benedikt Signer to board as executive director
Signer has worked for The World Bank for over a decade, where he supported over 20 countries in actively managing potential losses from climate and disaster shocks.
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- July 25 2024
Allianz Commercial taps AIG’s Karlis Trops to head Asia cyber and tech PI
Trops has over 14 years of industry experience specialising in cyber and technology errors and omissions (E&O) insurance underwriting and risk assessments.
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- July 25 2024
BHSI elevates Sharkey, Veanes to D&O managers for Northern and Southern Australia
Before their promotions, Sydney-based Michael Sharkey was underwriting manager for commercial lines while Hayden Veanes was underwriting manager for executive and professional lines.
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- July 25 2024
PSC Insurance acquires specialist broking group Sherpa Insurance
With US$3.9bn in sales, Sherpa Insurance has joined PSC as part of its Sydney branch following the acquisition.
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- July 25 2024
Price Forbes expands Singapore financial lines team with Gallagher hire
Antonio Calder-Smith will relocate to Singapore from London and work to develop the broker's financial lines presence throughout the Asia Pacific region.
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- July 25 2024
Exclusive: Hannover Re names Blake Dimitrijevic Australia MD as Michael Eberhardt heads to Bermuda
Dimitrijevic, who joins from Guy Carpenter, will succeed Eberhardt who is set to take charge as managing director and chief underwriting officer for Hannover Re Bermuda.
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- July 25 2024
Nepal air crash: 99.7% of estimated US$3m loss ceded out to foreign reinsurers
The hull and liability cover were provided by a Nepalese carrier Prabhu Insurance and reinsured with a London-based carrier through facultative cover, IAN understands.
