Reinsurance
Repair Your Damaged Reputations, AM Best Tells UK Insurers
While most of the COVID-related problems that plagued U.K. commercial property insurers will abate after the March anniversary of lockdowns, battles with reinsurers and damaged reputations are ...
Aviva Investors Might Ditch Holdings in Biggest Carbon Emitters Over Climate Inaction
Aviva Investors said on Monday it could ditch its stock and bond holdings in 30 of the world's biggest corporate emitters of carbon if their boards failed to take sufficient action over climate ...
Amended Law Slows Nursing Home COVID Court Claims
Garnice Robertson wants accountability for her mother's death from COVID-19 caught while she was living at a Kansas nursing home that allegedly failed to prevent an outbreak of the disease. An ...
Top 2021 Risks Look Much Like 2020: Pandemic Fallout and Cyber Attacks
There was no escaping the coronavirus in 2020 and the pandemic will dominate the risk landscape again in 2021, according to global leaders in business, risk management and insurance. A trio of ...
Industry Underestimating COVID Biz Interruption Losses: RenRe CEO
During an upbeat earnings call focused on how RenaissanceRe is using $1 billion of capital it raised last year in 2021, the CEO highlighted one negative development for the industry ...
W.R. Berkley Reports Record Q4 Net Income
W.R. Berkley Corp. generated record net income in its 2020 fourth-quarter and a healthy combined ratio, results that company attributed to rate hikes, bigger investment returns and ongoing ...
A Canceled Olympics Would Slap Insurers With Historic Loss
Insurers are facing a $2-3 billion loss if the Tokyo Olympics are canceled this year, amounting to the largest ever claim in the global event cancellation market, brokers say. With less than six ...
Social Inflation Drives $400M Prior-Year Reserve Charge For Everest Re
Everest Re is the most recent insurance and reinsurance company to announce catastrophe and COVID losses in advance of fourth-quarter earnings, but Everest's disclosure on Monday also addressed a ...