International
ITC Promises to Maximize Networking With One-Month Virtual Conference Delay
InsureTech Connect has postponed its annual (now virtual) fall conference by one month, four days before it was scheduled to go live. ITC, which produces one of the world's largest insurance ...
What Distinguishes This Market? Here’s Lockton Re Leaders’ Insights
Lockton Re's Tim Gardner, global CEO, and Ross Howard, global chairman, have been through their share of hard markets. Like many in the reinsurance business, they agree no two hard markets are ...
Dozens of Businesses Urge U.S. Carriers to Stop Covering Fossil Fuel Producers
A group of about 60 American businesses on Thursday urged their insurers to stop providing coverage to and investing in fossil fuel producers. In a letter, companies including outdoor-gear producer ...
Arcadian Risk Capital Launches New Bermuda Underwriting Operation
Arcadian Risk Capital is launching as a new underwriting operation based in Bermuda that will initially underwrite excess casualty and professional lines insurance. John Boylan, a 30-year veteran of ...
How Insurance Industry Might Respond if a Pandemic Is an Act of Terror
Imagine a scenario where COVID-19 was manufactured in a lab and was released as an act of terror. Tracey Gibbons, senior vice present, Underwriting, at Third Point Re, considers this possibility ...
Prediction: Coronavirus Will Have Severe Impact on Social Inflation
Claims inflation for the commercial liability business will increase through 2020, although it was accelerating even before the coronavirus pandemic hit. This trend, known as social inflation, has ...
Will Insurers Appeal UK COVID-19 Insurance Ruling? Businesses Watch and Wait
LONDON — Murray Pulman says he is as tough as they come, but battles with his insurer have left him close to tears after a coronavirus lockdown forced his family-run cafe The Posh Partridge to ...
What Is the No. 1 Emerging Litigation Risk? ‘Forever Chemicals,’ Says Praedicat
The top emerging litigation risk identified for the year ahead is PFAS, the so-called "forever chemicals" used in a wide variety of products such as Teflon, Scotchgard, food containers, firefighting ...