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Natural Disaster Claims in 2025 to Again Top $100B Despite ‘Abnormally Low’ Q3 Events
Global insured losses from natural catastrophes during the first nine months of 2025 are estimated to hit $105 billion, bringing the sixth consecutive calendar year with losses topping $100 billion ...
Weak Governance of Artificial Intelligence Raises Risks of Cyber Attacks: Moody’s
Weak artificial intelligence (AI) governance practices pose a growing risk of data breaches, warns a report published by Moody's Ratings. Large numbers of companies and organizations "have no rules ...
Cyber Tops List of Business Risks With Geopolitical Volatility Surging Into Top 10: Aon
Geopolitical volatility has surged into a top 10 business risk with cyber risk remaining the No. 1 concern globally, followed by business interruption at No. 2, according to Aon's 2025 Global Risk ...
Swiss Re Takes a Look at Hidden Behavioral Forces Behind Skyrocketing Jury Awards
The exponential growth of liability claims costs and social inflation in the United States is being driven, in part, by changing juror sentiment and shifts in societal norms, according to analysis ...
Exclusive Member of Reinsurance Class of 2025: Duperreault’s Cedar Trace
There are certain traits of hard reinsurance market cycles: prices rise, terms and conditions tighten, and new Bermuda reinsurers are formed to help fill capacity needs -- known in the past by the ...
Lloyd’s Reports Combined Ratio of 92.5 on Drop in H1 Underwriting Result
Lloyd's first-half underwriting result dropped by half to £1.5 billion ($2.0 billion) from £3.1 billion ($4.2 billion) in H1 2024, which was driven primarily by claims from January's California ...
Fitch Revises Global Reinsurance Sector Outlook to ‘Deteriorating’ on Rising Competition
Fitch Ratings has revised its outlook for the global reinsurance sector to "deteriorating" for 2026 from "neutral" for 2025, reflecting its expectation that underlying operational and business ...
‘Big Four’ Reinsurers Maintain Property-Cat Appetite, Despite Signs of Rate Softening
Europe's four largest reinsurers – Swiss Re, Munich Re, Hannover Re and SCOR – are maintaining their appetite for property-catastrophe risks as well as their ambitious profit targets for 2025, ...