Risk
Pre-COVID, Cybersecurity Tops Insurer Ranking of Dangerous Risks
When Willis Towers Watson asked more than 100 insurance industry executives to select what they thought would be the most dangerous risks to impact their businesses in the coming year, they ranked ...
Corporations Smacked With Double the Hacking Attacks as Employees Work From Home
Hacking activity against corporations in the United States and other countries more than doubled by some measures last month as digital thieves took advantage of security weakened by pandemic ...
Allianz CEO Baete Warns Coronavirus Will Cause ‘Huge Losses’ for Insurers
Allianz SE Chief Executive Officer Oliver Baete warned the coronavirus has upended insurers' business models and will cause "massive" losses across the industry. The virus has forced closures across ...
Chubb CEO Greenberg Cautions Insurers Would Face Bankruptcy Over Retroactive Coverage Measures
Chubb Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Evan Greenberg has a stark warning for policy makers pushing insurers to pay out some uncovered business-interruption losses. "The insurance industry is a ...
Insurers Suspending Dividends Shouldn’t Worry About Their Credit Quality: S&P
Some global regulators are advising insurers to suspend dividend payments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. If insurers do, they won't have to worry about their credit quality, S&P Global ...
InsurTech Firm Wefox, Other German Startups Seek European Approach to Corona Tracing App
Europe should not cede its sovereignty to Silicon Valley when it comes to using technology to help trace those at risk of coronavirus infection, the German developers of a smartphone app said on ...
A Crisis Manager on How the P/C Insurance Industry Can Maximize Its Coronavirus Response
"I'm shocked, just shocked that you're suggesting that during a crisis that insurance companies might, in fact, be considered the villains. I've never heard that before." That's Richard Levick ...
Sompo International Leaving Lloyd’s; Consolidating to London Company Market Platform
Sompo International Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property/casualty insurance and reinsurance, announced that as part of the ongoing transformation of Sompo International, the ...