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Cyber Underwriting Changes: Is It Too Little, Too Late?
With primary rate changes approaching 50 percent and underwriting questions about network controls becoming more and more detailed, cyber insurers and reinsurers are reacting to an onslaught of ...
The Ransomware Epidemic by the Numbers
During a session of the Casualty Actuarial Society Seminar on Reinsurance in June, Alexander Podmore, AVP and cyber underwriter for Swiss Re, defined a growing problem for cyber ...
Systemic Risk Analysis: Are Cyber Insurers Whistling Past the Graveyard?
While ransomware was the hot topic at 2021 midyear insurance industry conferences, discussions of the broader topic of systemic risk—spurred on by recent hacks of SolarWinds and Microsoft ...
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 ...
Opioids Are the Next Tobacco. Are Antibiotics the Next Opioids?
The fact pattern is familiar. Drug companies market a legal and regulated drug, resulting in significant overprescription of that drug. Over time, a public health crisis emerges and annual deaths ...
7 Emerging Risks to Watch: Climate Change, Pollutants, Cyber Threats
Even the most vigilant insurers and reinsurers scanning the risk landscape for potential future liability problems are likely to fall into landmines. What insurance risks or the immediate or near ...
An Insurance Executive’s COVID-19 Survival Story
In early January 2021, Andrew Rear's health took a turn for the worse. After suffering two weeks with COVID-19, the 50-year-old former head of Munich Re's Digital Partners thought he was on the mend. ...
Emerging Damage: The Case of Melamine
Emerging risks evolve through three phases: emerging interest, emerging damage and emerging litigation. During the "emerging interest" phase, scientists, regulators or legal scholars first flag the ...