Underwriting
Zurich Mulls Expanding Coverage to Help Protect Banks From Catastrophic Losses
Zurich Insurance Group AG, Switzerland's largest insurer, may increase its offering of insurance that helps protect banks from catastrophic losses like rogue trading by sharing risk with investors. ...
Lloyd’s Syndicates Soared With Low 2015 Catastrophe Losses: S&P
Benign catastrophe losses, combined with lower and less frequent casualty lines claims, helped Lloyd's syndicates deliver another strong set of results in 2015, reporting an average combined ratio of ...
Zurich CEO Mario Greco Simplifies Corporate Structure
Zurich Insurance AG's new chief executive officer, Mario Greco, is shaking up the largest Swiss insurer after an unexpected jump in claims last year forced it to abandon a takeover and prompted his ...
Beef and Other Emerging Risks
Beef may seem relatively benign to you, but Swiss Re's latest SONAR report considers it an emerging risks for insurers to watch. The reinsurer's annual emerging risk list also includes human cyborgs, ...
May Global Disasters Could Cost Insurers at Least $7B in Claims: Aon Benfield
Global disasters led to at least $7 billion in claims during May as insurers aid the recovery process following wildfires, floods, and storms, according to Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield's ...
Farmers Are at Risk if La Niña Emerges as Some Predict
The El Nino that has dominated global weather for more than a year has ended and may give way by the end of 2016 to a weak or moderate La Nina that can dry up crops in Brazil, soak them with rains in ...
AIR Worldwide: Unusual Circumstances Behind Floods in France, Germany, Belgium
Officials have only begun to tally economic and insured losses after widespread flooding hit much of France, Germany and parts of Belgium. But catastrophe-modeling firm AIR Worldwide said the ...
Judge to Uber: Did You Encourage a Private Investigator to Lie?
A federal judge wants to know whether Uber Technologies Inc. encouraged a private investigator to lie as part of a probe of a customer who sued over how the ride-hailing app sets fares. Connecticut ...