Underwriting
Time For Insurers to Reassess ‘Grim’ Cyber Insurance Market: AM Best
With the cyber risk hazard environment—ransomware, business interruption and aggregation—worsening significantly, "prospects for the U.S. cyber insurance market are grim," according to a report ...
Insurers Get Low Grades on Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss Action
Most of the world's largest insurers are failing to adequately address systemic risks such as climate change and biodiversity loss, but a group of five U.S. insurers are some of those that rank the ...
Introducing the World’s First ‘Fully Sustainable’ Insurer, Parhelion
Howden, the London-based insurance broker, announced it is launching a UK insurer called Parhelion, which it describes as "the world's first fully sustainable insurer." Aiming to raise $500 million ...
Telematics: It’s Not Just for New Business Pricing Anymore
GEICO had the right idea about following Progressive—and the majority of top auto insurers—into the world of telematics, but the benefits of the technology go well beyond matching rate and risk ...
IoT Data Can Help Insurers Cover Existing and New Risks Alike: Geneva Association
Data from Internet of Things-related (IoT) devices is a potential boon to insurers, giving them new options for covering existing and new risks alike, according to a new report published by The ...
PG&E Must Fork Over $150M for Botched Blackouts and Recent Wildfires
Pacific Gas & Electric is getting hit with a nearly $150 million billion for neglect that caused Northern California wildfires during the past two years and mismanagement of blackouts designed to ...
Colonial Pipeline Attack Spurs Energy Company Quest for Cyber Insurance
U.S. energy companies are scrambling to buy more cyber insurance after this month's attack on Colonial Pipeline disrupted the U.S. fuel supply, but they can expect to pay more as cyber insurers plan ...
MGA Corvus Pulls in Another $15M; Company Provides Smart Commercial Insurance Products
Corvus Insurance raised another $15 million that the Boston-based InsurTech startup will use to fuel further growth. The company, which debuted in 2017, is an MGA focused on providing smart ...