Reinsurance
COVID-19 Could Threaten Shipping Safety Even as Losses Are at Record Lows: Allianz
Large shipping losses dropped by 20 percent last year, in a continuation of decade-long trend when losses declined by almost 70 percent, according to a report published by Allianz Global Corporate ...
Report: Swiss Re CEO Says Country’s Insurers Oppose Tightening Immigration Rules
Switzerland's insurance industry is against tightening the country's immigration rules, a move that will be put to voters this year, Swiss Re Chief Executive Christian Mumenthaler told Handelszeitung ...
Pandemic Shifts Insurer Interest Toward Safer Warehouse Investments
Global insurers want to increase investments in commercial warehouses as their stakes in office space become riskier because of employees working remotely during the novel coronavirus pandemic, ...
Americans Ignore Work-From-Home Cyber Attack Risks: Chubb Survey
A large number of Americans working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic aren't worried about cyber attacks even though they're at greater risk compared to working in the office, Chubb found in ...
Reinsurance Capital Dips; Capacity Available: Aon
Global reinsurance capital fell 6 percent to $590 billion for the first quarter of 2020, Aon reported in its June/July Reinsurance Market Outlook report this week The report, which also looks at ...
Arch Capital Pretax Cat Losses Could Hit $225M, Driven by COVID-19 Claims
Arch Capital Group Ltd. has estimated a range of pretax catastrophe losses of $205 million to $225 million in the second quarter of 2020 across its property/casualty insurance and reinsurance ...
CoreLogic Meets With Investors Pursuing Unsolicited Acquisition Bid
CoreLogic Inc. met with two of its investors for the first time Tuesday to discuss their $7 billion proposal to take the real estate data company private. Representatives from Cannae Holdings Inc. ...
Is a ‘Class of 2020’ Emerging?
Even though accelerating hard market conditions may seem ideal for a growing crop of professionals with designs on starting up insurance and reinsurance companies, garnering AM Best ratings still ...