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RIMS 2017: Experts Urge Insurers to Treat Cyber As Risk Management Issue
If fire breaks out in a building, you wouldn't run out and buy and extinguisher to fight it after the fact. You'd likely already have one. The same idea should apply to cyber insurance, and yet ...
Bush Wins! And Other Insurance Political News
Monumental views on insurance and risk in the nation's capital? Surely we jest. Well, we will take an occasional dip into the Potomac waters to poke fun, but overall we hope this reporting on ...
Top Firms Lobby for Preemptive Federal Strike on Family Paid Leave
During the 2016 presidential campaign, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton pledged their support for more paid family leave. Now big business is countering the calls with a proposal of its own: ...
Swiss Re Economists Win International Awards for Research on Catastrophe Protection Gap
Thomas Holzheu and Ginger Turner of Swiss Re have received Shin Research Excellence Awards for their paper on "The Natural Catastrophe Protection Gap." The awards are given by the Geneva Association ...
Rising Global Protectionism Threatens Economic Growth: Atlantic Council/Zurich Insurance
A new report from the Atlantic Council and Zurich Insurance Group examines best-, worst- and base-case scenarios for global protectionism and other geopolitical trends and the potential impact for ...
States Approve Motorists Mutual, BrickStreet Mutual ‘Super Regional’ Joint Venture
Ohio-based property/casualty insurer Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. and West Virginia-based workers' compensation insurer BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Co. Inc., have been granted regulatory approvals ...
MetLife Wants Delay on ‘Too-Big-To-Fail’ Case as Trump Reviews FSOC
MetLife Inc. is asking a U.S. court to put on pause a case over how the government deems certain companies "too big to fail," one of the most significant reforms to come out of the financial crisis, ...
Handling Cyber as Standalone Insurance Could Benefit Carriers, Buyers Alike
Treating cyber risk as a standalone insurance market holds the promise of unlocking the potential for meaningful coverage for both insurers and buyers, according to a new report by JLT Re and JLT ...