Reinsurance
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 ...
U.S. P/C Insurance Industry Net Income Plunges 26 Percent in H1
U.S. P/C insurance industry net income plunged 26 percent in the 2020 first half, as underwriting results and investment gains took a hit from COVID-19, catastrophes and other instabilities, ...
Insureds Seeking Premium Cuts Must Ask State Regulator First, Judge Rules
A federal judge has ruled that State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. does not have to return premiums to a small business customer because of the insured's reduced business during the pandemic. The judge ...