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A Crisis Manager on How the P/C Insurance Industry Can Maximize Its Coronavirus Response
"I'm shocked, just shocked that you're suggesting that during a crisis that insurance companies might, in fact, be considered the villains. I've never heard that before." That's Richard Levick ...
Sompo International Leaving Lloyd’s; Consolidating to London Company Market Platform
Sompo International Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty provider of property/casualty insurance and reinsurance, announced that as part of the ongoing transformation of Sompo International, the ...
Pandemic Bonds Get Stay of Execution but Their Future Remains Uncertain
A ruling last week not to wipe out holders of a World Bank financial instrument providing emergency funds to poor countries in a pandemic, was just a stay of execution if bond markets are to be ...
Corvus Insurance Hires Former Execs From Beazley, Hiscox and Zurich
Corvus Insurance is adding to its executive team with veteran executives from Beazley, Hiscox and Zurich. The Boston-based InsurTech startup's hires come as experienced 20 percent growth already in ...
Executives On The Move at Beazley and Willis Towers Watson
Beazley appointed a new global head of cyber & executive risk, effective July 2020. Willis Towers Watson hired a new senior director in its Climate and Resilience Hub. *** Specialist insurer ...
AIR Worldwide Launches Free COVID-19 Catastrophe Modeling Tool
AIR Worldwide has launched a free COVID-19 catastrophe modeling tool, one that predicts cases and offers death projections for the weeks ahead. The company said its product, formally named the Verisk ...
QBE Plans $825M Capital Raise to Help Weather COVID-19 Uncertainty
QBE Insurance is planning to raise about $825 million in capital as a result of the economic and investment market uncertainty created by the coronavirus crisis. The company will raise approximately ...
Regulator Warns Most Small UK Companies Lack Pandemic Insurance
Most insurance policies bought by smaller UK companies do not cover disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, but those that do should make interim pay-outs quickly, a watchdog said on ...