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No Rendez-Vous, No Problem
Reinsurance executives who would normally be heading to the Rendez-Vous de Septembre in Monte Carlo are missing the experience but carrying on business just fine without the in-person interactions in ...
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 ...
COVID Not a Capital Event for Global Reinsurers—Yet
While analysts at Standard & Poor's Global Ratings agree with the popular assessment that COVID-19 is an earnings—not a capital—event, COVID plus catastrophes could be a different story. In a ...
Some Reinsurers Will Try Pandemic Exclusions for Casualty at 1/1
Whether they are convinced that they absolutely need them or not, some reinsurers aim to try to put pandemic exclusions into casualty reinsurance contracts next year, a reinsurance broker ...
Welcome to Carrier Management’s Reinsurance Hub
Welcome to the Big Re, Carrier Management's hub for reinsurance. Launched during the week of what would have been the Reinsurance Rendez-Vous de Septembre, this special page aims to provide complete ...
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 ...
AM Best Keeps Stable Outlook for Reinsurance Industry
The tailwinds propelling the global reinsurance sector are sufficient impetus for the ratings agency AM Best to retain its stable outlook for the reinsurance industry, despite multiple challenges. ...
Casualty Re ‘Rational’ Despite Likely COVID Whiplash on Social Inflation
A COVID-driven deflation in lawsuit trends is giving reinsurance brokers ammunition to achieve better outcomes for their clients in a hardening casualty reinsurance market, according to an Aon ...