Reinsurance
Opinion: Calling Out Cyber Attackers Could Give Insurers Reason to Deny Claims
The $100 million lawsuit that Mondelez, the maker of Oreos and Cadbury chocolate, has brought against Zurich Insurance Group shows that governments should be more careful about identifying the ...
Arch Warns Q4 Pretax Cat Losses Could Reach $130 Million
Arch Capital Group Ltd. is warning that it faces between $110 million to $130 million in pretax catastrophe losses for the 2018 fourth quarter. The Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer blamed the ...
Global Reinsurance Capital Remains Resilient Despite Huge Cat Losses: Aon
Global reinsurance capital – comprising traditional and alternative capital – fell 2 percent in 2018 to $595 billion from $605 billion in 2017, remaining resilient in the face of insured natural ...
The Latest Launches From Swiss Re and AXA XL
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions said it is debuting parametric water-level insurance. AXA XL Risk Consulting disclosed it is using artificial intelligence (AI) to boost its property risk engineering ...
An El Niño Seems Likely to Emerge This Spring
There is a 65 percent chance of an El Niño weather pattern emerging during the northern hemisphere spring this year, a U.S. government weather forecaster said on Thursday. "However, given the timing ...
EU Seeks to Give Insurance, Other Finance Regulators More Post-Brexit Powers
The European Union moved a step closer on Thursday to beefing up its regulators to increase safeguards for consumers and create an EU capital market that reduces the bloc's reliance on Britain's ...
Trump to California: Change Forest Management Practices or Lose Wildfire Aid
President Donald Trump, who has blamed California's forest management for last year's disastrous fires, threatened to halt the Federal Emergency Management Agency's assistance to victims unless that ...
Liberty Mutual Once Again Taps Capital Markets’ Reinsurance Capacity
Liberty Mutual has once again directly tapped capital markets' reinsurance capacity via the Bermuda collateralized reinsurance sidecar, Limestone Re Ltd. Limestone Re provides approximately $150 ...