Reinsurance
Set Aside 150 Years for P/C Insurers to Pay COVID-19 Business Interruption Losses
The world's property/casualty insurers would have to collect business interruption insurance premiums for 150 years in order to absorb the estimated $4.5 trillion global output loss inflicted by ...
Frequent Hurricane Shutdowns Create Business Interruption Struggles for U.S. Energy Firms
As crews began returning to U.S. Gulf of Mexico offshore facilities on Thursday, this year's repeated oil and gas production halts were already hitting energy firms' results. Eight named storms ...
Reinsurers’ Investment Strategies Help Them Tolerate COVID-19 Impact: S&P
A decade of low interest rates and tough underwriting conditions has led reinsurers to cautiously invest in riskier and more illiquid assets to generate additional return. The good news is that this ...
Insurers Make Major Strides in Beefing Up Customer Experience: IBM Survey
Insurers have made significant strides over the last decide in improving customer experience through new technology or other initiatives, a new IBM survey found. Approximately 85 percent of insurers ...
Insurers Back Biden More Than Trump, Give More Money to Republican Congressional Candidates
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has received more funds from insurance industry political committees than President Donald Trump in this 2020 election cycle. Biden has received $5.5 ...
U.S. Businesses Stock Up on Insurance Cover Over Fears of Post-Election Chaos
Retailers, pharmacies, liquor stores and other merchants across the United States are gobbling up insurance that protects buildings from damage caused by societal unrest, worried about possible ...
InsurTech VC Breaks Records in Q3; Mid-Tier Startup Funding Shrinks
InsurTech funding saw the largest number of deals and the highest amount of funding since data recording into InsurTech began, with $2.5 billion raised by InsurTech firms across 104 deals during the ...
The Latest Launches From Munich Re and Starr
A unit of Munich Re is touting new cyber and technology errors and omissions insurance coverage designed to protect U.S.-domiciled organizations with domestic and /or global exposure. A division of ...