Risk & Capital Management
You Have Mail—and Storm Claims on Your Policies: BMS Launches Alerts
Incoming emails alerting carriers to weather claims on their policies are now automatically generated by BMS Group's iVision catastrophe risk management system, the intermediary announced earlier ...
Let’s Dance, Say Reinsurance Leaders With Mergers on Their Minds
Even though his appetite is temporarily sated from two key acquisitions in recent years, the leader of SCOR says the M&A "dancing floor will be open" across the reinsurance industry going ...
Allianz SE’s El-Erian: Fed Policies May Have Produced New Bubble
Investors might be surprised to learn that they have a lot riding on something that they pay very little attention to: macro-prudential regulation, or what central banks and other government agencies ...AIG Mulling Big Expansion of Massive Share Repurchase
American International Group Inc., the largest commercial insurer in the U.S. and Canada, said it may repurchase as much as an additional $2 billion of common stock after selling its aircraft-leasing ...
Mining Underwriting Opportunities With CoMeta
Speaking during a session at the Advisen Casualty Insights conference in March, Robert Reville, the chief executive officer of Praedicat, noted that while all mass litigation, historically, has been ...
Praedicat: Mining Data From Published Science to Spot the Next Casualty Cat
Emerging liability risks aren't likely to look like asbestos or silica in coming years, according to an expert who has been following the development of workplace torts for decades. Instead, the next ...
Argo to Expand Surety Capacity On Its Own and With SureTec Financial
Argo Group International Holdings Ltd, said it will expand its commercial surety capacity to $100 million for qualifying clients. Separately, the Bermuda based international underwriter of specialty ...
Aon: Storms Packed a Wallop in May Despite Tornado Lull
In May, severe global weather left insurers with mixed data to mull over. While U.S. tornado activity for the month remained in the bottom 25th percentile dating back to the 1950s, major weather ...