Content from Susanne Sclafane
What to Expect in 2021: Reinsurance Market Moving From ‘Timid’ to ‘Hard’
Speaking at one of the many virtual conferences that took place in early September, Dan Malloy, chief executive officer of Bermuda-based Third Point Reinsurance, offered an anecdotal view of the ...
No Rendez-Vous, No Problem
Reinsurance executives who would normally be heading to the Rendez-Vous de Septembre in Monte Carlo are missing the experience but carrying on business just fine without the in-person interactions in ...
Some Reinsurers Will Try Pandemic Exclusions for Casualty at 1/1
Whether they are convinced that they absolutely need them or not, some reinsurers aim to try to put pandemic exclusions into casualty reinsurance contracts next year, a reinsurance broker ...
Casualty Re ‘Rational’ Despite Likely COVID Whiplash on Social Inflation
A COVID-driven deflation in lawsuit trends is giving reinsurance brokers ammunition to achieve better outcomes for their clients in a hardening casualty reinsurance market, according to an Aon ...
Hardening Re Market Doesn’t Look Like Mid-1980s or 2005
Reinsurance price hikes and capacity changes are not reminiscent of prior hard markets, participants said in quasi-Rendez-Vous meetings, with some going as far to say that current price changes are ...
The Insurance Jobs ‘Revolution’
Early in 2020, I wrote a series of articles about insurance carriers that got top ratings on an online job site. To do my research, I had to sign up to provide information about my job. Ever since, I ...
Stories+Words+Machines: A Nerd’s Formula for Building an InsurTech
There probably aren't too many people who think about insurance claims scenarios when they go out to buy ice cream. Chris Cheatham, the CEO of InsurTech Risk Genius, is one of them, according to a ...
The Challenges of Leading an InsurTech; What’s Next for RiskGenius?
Chris Cheatham believes forming partnerships with QBE and Guy Carpenter were the two biggest milestones in the history of his company, RiskGenius, so far. But was there ever a time when he thought it ...