Commercial Lines
Reinsurers Increasingly Use Third-Party Capital to Transfer Risks
Reinsurers are increasingly relying on third-party capital to support their retrocession needs, in which they transfer risks they have assumed to other counterparties. According to a report from ...
Fiat Chrysler Reportedly Nears Plea Deal in U.S. Emissions Fraud Probe
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is nearing an agreement to plead guilty to criminal conduct to resolve a multiyear emissions fraud probe surrounding Ram pickup trucks and Jeep sport-utility vehicles ...
Shareholder Activism Could Harm Some Airlines if They Don’t Cut Emissions Faster
Some airlines risk failure if they do not cut carbon emissions quicker in the next three to five years due to a mismatch between short-term corporate travel targets and the airline industry's 2050 ...
Undaunted by COVID-19, P/C Insurers and Startups Embraced Innovation Instead
As the CEO and co-founder of digital MGA Koffie Labs, Ian White was initially New York-based. Then the coronavirus pandemic struck, spurring a creative rethinking about what a corporate headquarters ...
Chubb CEO Greenberg Acknowledges Hiring Challenges in Era of Post-COVID Job Turmoil
The coronavirus pandemic is driving millions of Americans to retire early or quit their jobs in a reassessment of their lives, leaving corporate America struggling to fill open positions. Chubb ...
Global InsurTech Investment Hits Record $10B Through September
Global investment in insurance technology (InsurTech) start-ups totalled $10.5 billion in the first nine months of 2021, a record high level for the period, reinsurance broker Willis Re said on ...
Global Average Annual Disaster Losses Could Surpass $200B in 10 Years: AIR Worldwide
The global insurance industry can currently expect a long-run annual average loss of $106 billion and a greater than a 40 percent chance of experiencing an annual loss of more than $200 billion in ...
Proposed Global Minimum Tax Could Lead to Double Assessment for Some Insurers: AM Best
Given the accounting differences for global insurance companies in different jurisdictions, a new global minimum tax on certain multinational companies creates the potential for double taxation for ...