Specialty
Africa Specialty Risks Gets ‘In Principle’ Approval to Launch Syndicate in 2024
Africa Specialty Risks (ASR), a pan-African focused insurance and reinsurance group, has received "in-principle" approval to launch a Lloyd's syndicate in 2024. The syndicate will be launched in ...
23andMe Says Health Data Included in Hack That Compromised 6.9M
Some 6.9 million 23andMe customers had their data compromised after an anonymous hacker accessed user profiles and posted them for sale on the Internet earlier this year, the company said on Monday. ...
2024 Outlook on the MGA Market: Time to Normalize Difficult Conversations?
The insurance industry experienced widespread and significant tightening in the reinsurance markets in 2022. "Volatility" was the watchword as the year 2022 wound down. Reinsurers raised prices, ...
Mobility Trend: Consumers Prefer AV Deliveries Over Robots, Drones
With Amazon aiming to make 10,000 deliveries with drones in Europe this year and Walmart planning to expand its drone delivery services to an additional 60,000 homes this year in the states, ...
U.S. Contractors, Insurers Overlooking Some Safety Improvements in Construction
Many American construction firms are failing to implement obvious and inexpensive safety measures that could save lives, reduce injuries and avoid costly insurance claims. And many insurers are not ...
What to Expect: ‘No Material or Sudden Changes’ in Commercial Insurance Pricing
Even though reinsurance executives are making noise about social inflation and liability rate inadequacy, WTW isn't expecting any major changes in the pricing for commercial casualty or property ...
Major Cyber Attack Could Cost Global Economy $3.5 Trillion: Lloyd’s
A cyber attack on a major financial services payments system could result in widespread business disruptions, potentially costing the global economy $3.5 trillion over a five-year period, according ...
UK Watchdog Fines Equifax $13.4M for Role in ‘One of Largest’ Cyber Breaches
Britain's financial watchdog said on Friday it had fined consumer credit rater Equifax Ltd. 11 million pounds ($13.4 million) for its role in "one of the largest" cyber-security breaches in history. ...