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Severe Convective Storms Dominate Insured Natural Disaster Losses in H1: Swiss Re
Global natural catastrophes cost insurers $50 billion in the first half of 2023, (H1 2022: $48 billion), with most of the losses stemming from severe convective storms, according to Swiss Re. "Severe ...
Kemper Exits Preferred Home and Auto Business
As it reported a net loss in the second quarter of about $97 million, Kemper Corp. said Monday that it is exiting the preferred home and auto insurance market. Kemper said it will "actively reduce ...
Average Cost of a Data Breach Has Reached an All-Time High: IBM Report
According to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach report, 2023 set an all-time high record with the global average data breach cost reaching $4.45 million, a 2.3 percent increase from 2022 and up 15.3 percent ...
Massive Citizens Takeout Plan Seen as Sign That Things Are Looking Up in Florida Market
Stakeholders near and far are hailing a record number of takeouts from Citizens' Property Insurance Corp. as a sign that the troubled Florida insurance market is improving, even if it will likely ...
GAO Urges Changes to NFIP as Study Highlights Potential $27B Shortfall
FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) substantially improved ratemaking by implementing Risk Rating 2.0 in 2021, but the program faces a potentially significant premium shortfall, a study by ...
Hard Market Game Refuses to End: Arch Capital CEO
Drawing analogies to an epic tennis match and the hands of a clock, the leader of Bermuda-based Arch Capital declared the current hard market one of the longest the P/C industry has ever experienced. ...
Guy Carp Analysis: Cyber Cat Model Results Diverge
Significant progress has been made in advancing vendor's cyber catastrophe models, but a notable degree of variability exists across model outputs, which can pose a challenge to insurance and ...
N.J. High Court to Hear Insurers’ Appeal Over War Exclusion in NotPetya Attack
The New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a hostile/warlike action exclusion in an all risks property insurance policy applies in a case involving insurance coverage for a 2017 ...