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World Economic Forum Warns Long-Term Risks Are Environmental
The World Economic Forum is sounding alarm bells on climate change, with environmental risks occupying the group's top five long-term concerns for the first time on record. Extreme weather events, ...
Strong Competition, Claims Inflation Confront UK P/C Insurers: A.M. Best
Market conditions for U.K. non-life insurers were difficult in 2019 as they continued to face strong competition and claims inflation, according to a report published by AM Best. Companies have had ...
A Breakdown of How the U.S.-China Trade Agreement Addresses Insurance
President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He signed an economic and trade agreement that promises to increase the agricultural and other goods and services China will buy from the U.S. by ...
Planned Opening of China’s Insurance Sector to U.S. Firms Causes Confusion
A trade pact opening up China's insurance sector to U.S. firms has caused confusion among lawyers in the Asian nation. China pledged to remove the foreign-equity cap for the life, pension and ...
Property/Casualty Insurance Outlooks: What Experts Say to Expect in 2020
What does the year have in store for property/casualty insurers? There have been a lot of predictions published since late last year, with most forecasters commenting on insurance market conditions, ...
Cyber Ranks as Top Peril for Companies Globally for 1st Time: Allianz Survey
Cyber incidents rank for the first time as the most important business risk globally, pushing the perennial top peril, business interruption (BI), into second place, according to the Allianz Risk ...
Storms, Political Unrest Drove Chubb’s $430M in Q4 Pre-Tax Cat Losses
Chubb said that severe weather events in Texas, California and Japan helped produce an estimated $430 million in pre-tax catastrophe losses for the 2019 fourth quarter. That number breaks down to ...
Executives On The Move at Liberty Mutual and Argo Group
Liberty Mutual Re appointed a former Aspen Re executive to lead a new office in Singapore that will focus on growing business in the Asia Pacific region. Argo Group unit ArgoGlobal appointed two ...