Content from Susanne Sclafane
InsurTech Views of COVID Claims Trends in Auto and HO
With business models centered around pay-per-mile insurance and digital distribution of modern homeowners insurance, InsurTech leaders from Metromile and Hippo recently provided their assessments of ...
More Class of 2020 Reinsurers Unlikely
The Class of 2020 already has a new member, but it's not a true startup, the chair of the company said recently. Speaking at the KBW Insurance Conference in early September, Sid Sankaran, chair of ...
What Happened to Hedge Fund Reinsurers?
The latest group of reinsurers to emerge in the Bermuda market is starting to look different. Even the name that once described the cohort has changed in the past five years. And at least one member ...
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Insurers Struggle With Policy Rewrites
Commercial insurers are engaged in coverage language rewrites en masse this year, but "The Great Policy Rewrite" faces some serious obstacles, a coverage lawyer said recently. Even if carriers are ...
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 ...