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Lockton Re Imagined: Bringing Choice to Reinsurance Brokerage
While some reinsurance brokers see opportunities to achieve significant economies of scale in the reinsurance market through acquisitions, others see opportunities to grow by providing reinsurance ...
Global Reinsurers Face Major Hardening Market Over Next Two Years: Munich Re
Even before the coronavirus crisis hit, the re/insurance industry was in a period of significant rate hardening, which will likely continue over the next two years, or even longer, according to ...
COVID-19 Crisis Reveals Contract Clarity Lessons, Digital Opportunities: Flandro
In every crisis, lessons must be learned, but opportunities also are revealed. And so it goes with the COVID-19, which has shown the need for contract certainty in the re/insurance industry, while at ...
Executives On The Move at CNA and CoreLogic
CNA appointed a new Chief Data & Analytics Officer. CoreLogic hired someone to run its Insurance Solutions business for the global property insurance industry.
Despite COVID Losses, Lloyd’s Underlying Underwriting Results See Big Improvement
While Lloyd's overall results in the second half were hit by £2.4 billion ($3.12 billion) of COVID-19 claims, the market's underlying underwriting performance saw a "huge improvement," which Chief ...
Consortium to Buy Aviva’s Singapore Business for $1.98B
British life, motor and home insurer Aviva said on Friday it will sell its majority shareholding in its Singapore business to a consortium led by Singapore Life for S$2.7 billion ($1.98 billion), as ...
Ransomware Attacks Soar and Grow More Malicious: Coalition
Ransomware attacks grew by nearly 50 percent in the 2020 second quarter compared to the first three months of the year, underscoring the risks created by pandemic-related work-from-home requirements, ...
Swiss Re’s Risk Radar
Swiss Re's annual SONAR report, published in early June, highlights 14 emerging risks that will impact different sectors of the insurance industry in different time frames. The accompanying chart ...