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Nigerian Insurance Market Faces Challenges to Realize Its Potential: AM Best
Oct 9 2020 // Nigeria’s insurance market has great potential given its position as Africa’s largest economy, its substantial oil and gas reserves and its young and growing population. Yet Nigeria’s insurance market has...
London Company Market Grew 10% in 2019
Oct 8 2020 // Premium income for the London company market grew by 10% last year with £21.436 billion of large commercial and wholesale risks underwritten by firms in the City. A new report from the International Underwriting...
Hedge Funds Returning to Insurance as Premiums Rise
Oct 8 2020 // Five years after London-based hedge fund Toscafund ditched the shares it held in insurance companies, the $3.5 billion firm and its peers are flocking back, drawn by sharp premium increases which are lifting the...
EU Climate Service Says September Was World’s Warmest on Record
Oct 7 2020 // Last month was the world’s hottest September on record, with unusually high temperatures recorded off Siberia, in the Middle East, and in parts of South America and Australia, the European Union’s Copernicus...
The New Digital Normal and the Future of Work in Reinsurance
Oct 6 2020 // It’s been said that necessity is the mother of invention. That proverb was illustrated perfectly during the insurance industry’s successful scramble to conduct its business digitally at the onset of the...
California Workers’ Comp Premium for First Two Quarters of 2020 Down 11%
Oct 5 2020 // Written workers’ compensation premium in California for the first two quarters of 2020 was 11% below that for the first two quarters of 2019, according to a new report out. The Worker’s Compensation Insurance...
Hotel Sector Sees Tough Times, High Rates in Insurance Market
Oct 5 2020 // The hotel industry was one of the first industries affected when COVID-19 forced the travel industry into standstill, and many predict it will also be one of the last industries to recover. Even as travel has ticked up...
White Mountains to Buy 72% Stake in Lloyd’s Insurer Ark for Growth in Hardening Market
Oct 1 2020 // White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to invest fresh capital in and to acquire a majority interest in Ark Insurance Holdings Ltd., the parent company of Ark Syndicate...
Many Financial Firms and Governments See Cryptocurrencies as Risky: Survey
Sep 30 2020 // Financial firms and governments overwhelmingly see cryptocurrencies as risky, a major survey found on Tuesday, with the potential for bitcoin and other digital tokens for use in money laundering and sanctions busting among...
Worker’s Compensation Rates to Decrease in Idaho for 2021
Sep 29 2020 // A proposal for a 1.7% overall rate decrease to Idaho workers’ compensation insurance, effective Jan. 1, 2021, has been approved by the Idaho Department of Insurance. The proposed rate change is recommended by the...
Executives Reassess Work-Life Balance After Experiencing Coronavirus Blues: Survey
Sep 29 2020 // Nearly eight out of 10 corporate executives have experienced poor mental health during the coronavirus crisis, prompting a number of them to re-evaluate and improve work-life balance, a survey showed on Monday. Many top...
California Ban on Fracking by 2024 Criticized as Too Late
Sep 28 2020 // California Gov. Gavin Newsom moved Wednesday to end issuing new hydraulic fracturing permits by 2024, a delay criticized by many environmental groups but characterized as legally and politically realistic by...
Report: COVID-19 Accounts for 1-in-9 California Workers’ Comp Claims in 2020
Sep 28 2020 // The California workers’ compensation COVID-19 claim count continued to grow in August, albeit at a much slower rate than in July, with new data showing that as of Sept. 21, the state had recorded 5,130 COVID-19...
Insurer Ping An Taps Rising Demand for Chinese Assets with Offshore Management Arm
Sep 28 2020 // Ping An Insurance (Group) Co., China’s largest insurer by market value, is tapping growing global demand for Chinese assets to expand its offshore asset management business as competition with foreign entrants...
Reinsurance Demand Rises, Along with Flight to Quality, Say Industry Experts
Sep 28 2020 // Not only has reinsurance buying increased, but there also has been a flight to quality reinsurers by ceding insurance companies, according to several reinsurers and brokers in recent webinars held in lieu of what would...
UN Envoy Carney Backs Investors’ Call for Increased Climate Risk Disclosure
Sep 28 2020 // United Nations climate envoy Mark Carney on Thursday threw his weight behind a growing push by investors for companies to more accurately reflect climate-related risks in their financial accounts. Such risks can range from...
EasySend Raises $16M to Enable Insurance Companies and Financial Institutions to Build a No-Code Digital Future
Sep 24 2020 // The investment will empower insurance companies, banks, and other financial institutions to build and optimize digital journeys with an AI-powered no-code platform Tel Aviv, Israel – September 24, 2020 – EasySend, the...
Purdue Report: 21 Work-Related Deaths on Indiana Farms in 2019
Sep 23 2020 // Indiana had 21 work-related deaths on farms deaths last year, the fewest number of documented cases since 2013, Purdue University announced on Sept. 22. Three of the victims were children under the age of 5, while 11 were...
Beazley Beefs Up Executive Risk Team in U.S. with 6 More Recruits
Sep 22 2020 // Specialty insurer Beazley has expanded its underwriting and claims presence in the U.S. with new hires for its Executive Risk team that focuses on board-level risks facing businesses and their executives. Elizabeth...
Business Income: When a Covered Cause of Loss Occurs During a Coronavirus Shut Down
Sep 21 2020 // To analyze the business income policy’s response to the crossover of an excluded event and a covered event, we begin with the Business Income Insuring Agreement found in Insurance Services Offices (ISO’s)...
