Industry Segments: Underwriting Page 14 / 18
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- March 17 2022
MS Amlin expands in Singapore with two appointments
The Lloyd's syndicate has hired from Willis Re and promoted a claims specialist from Malaysia.
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- March 10 2022
Electric car insurance: profitability concerns persist
As a new dawn greets Asia’s motor industry, a dearth of data presents underwriting challenges.
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- March 2 2022
Ukraine crisis may force further hardening of Aussie cyber
Heightened threat constrains underwriting appetite.
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- February 28 2022
Asia cyber ripe for underwriting revolution
Gallagher Re suggests skyrocketing premiums could be countered by changes in industry practices.
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- February 21 2022
Samsung Fire & Marine sees 42.5% profit jump despite underwriting loss
The P&C player made an underwriting loss of US$458m in FY 2021 -- an improvement over FY 2020.
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- February 10 2022
QBE joins UN’s Net-Zero Insurance Alliance
The insurer has agreed to transition its underwriting portfolio to net-zero by 2050.
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- February 4 2022
QBE Australia Pacific appoints chief underwriting officer
Andrew Ziolkowski was most recently at New South Wales' icare.
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- January 31 2022
Vietnam’s PTI underwriting risks to grow: AM Best
The P&C player has had a favourable loss ratio but high expense ratio amid a GWP slowdown.
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- January 24 2022
Peak Re appoints P&C head of product underwriting
Piotr Nowakowski joins in February in Hong Kong and was most recently at Echo Re.
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- January 19 2022
IAG hires Suncorp veteran for underwriting role
Darren O'Connell is joining the Intermediated Insurance Australia division.
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- December 13 2021
China Taiping (HK) to maintain market position: AM Best
The SAR's third largest P&C player saw premiums expand in 2020 driven by motor and A&H.
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- December 2 2021
GIC Re takes premium hit amid ‘bottom-line’ focus
The reinsurer tells IAN classes with higher claims are being avoided as health and marine business drops.
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- November 18 2021
KB Insurance’s underwriting boosted by fewer claims: AM Best
The firm is South Korea’s fourth-largest non-life insurer with a market share of around 13%.
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- November 18 2021
APAC insurers should curb coal to avoid legal threat: Moody’s
Climate change-linked lawsuits against companies in carbon intensive industries have increased in recent years.
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- November 16 2021
Health, personal accident drive Vietnam’s non-life market: AM Best
Intense competition and poor pricing conditions have prompted some insurers to reassess their motor business.
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- November 15 2021
Munich Re’s Park on climate risks, underwriting and transformation
James Park, the reinsurer's chief executive for Singapore and South-East Asia, warns on unmodelled risks.
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- October 13 2021
Markel bolsters APAC energy team with two underwriters
Max Robbie and Yong Ruay Heah previously worked at Oman Insurance and Aon, respectively.
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- October 8 2021
Axis reshuffles capital risk solutions team
Shuohan Dai joins from Euler Hermes to oversea capital risk underwriting in Asia Pacific.
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- October 7 2021
Vietnam’s BIDV Insurance saw 13% GWP growth in 2020: AM Best
The insurer's combined ratio has averaged around 98% over the past five years.
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- October 4 2021
Tokio Marine backs out of thermal coal mining projects
Japan's top three P&C insurers had already stopped underwriting new coal power projects.
