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2017 Predictions Part III: Motor-Cyber, India Reinsurance and More
Insurers and reinsurers continue to look for organic growth where they can find it – sometimes from emerging risks and sometimes from emerging markets. As always, the keys to success are market ...2017 Predictions Part II: InsurTech, Australia D&O and India Cyber Insurance
InsurTech was an insurance buzzword in 2016, and that's likely to continue next year when it will permeate almost every aspect of U.S. industry, according to a prediction from international law firm ...2017 Predictions Part I: Brexit Opportunities and More M&A to Come
M&A and Brexit will be major factors for the global insurance/reinsurance industry over the coming year, according to predictions from the insurance team at the international law firm Clyde & ...
Insurability Challenges Hamper Cyber Market Development: Geneva Assoc. Report
While insurance against cyber risk represents a tremendous new business for the insurance industry, numerous problems with the insurability currently impede the development of the market," according ...Rising Risks Could Cost Global Cities $1.17 Trillion of GDP in 2017: Cambridge Study
The costs of major shocks to the global economy from natural and manmade threats could put at risk $1.17 trillion of the total projected GDP of the world's major cities in 2017, according to the ...
AIG’s Schimek Sees Continued Combined Ratio Improvement in 2017
AIG has made good progress toward achieving its strategic goals of creating "a leaner, more focused, highly profitable commercial insurance organization," according to Robert S. Schimek, executive ...
Zurich Insurance’s Reunderwriting Starts to Bear Fruit
Zurich Insurance Group's reunderwriting program is starting to bear fruit—as evidenced by the company's improved third-quarter results—but CFO George Quinn readily admits there is still work to ...
XL Catlin CEO McGavick: Some P/C Industry Products Now ‘Shop-Worn’
The insurance/reinsurance industry needs to innovate and become more efficient. It is facing more risk, but premiums are declining. Some of its products have become shop-worn and less relevant. ...