Climate Change Activists Protest at Lloyd’s of London, Dumping a Load of ‘Coal’ April 23, 2021 By L.S. Howard Lloyd’s of London was the focus of climate change activists on Friday, when a group called “Insurance Rebellion” used a...
Cyber Attacks and Data Loss Are Top 2 Risks Facing Directors & Officers: WTW Survey April 23, 2021 By L.S. Howard Cyber attacks and data loss are the top two risks facing directors & officers, with pandemic-related changes in working practices...
Reinsurers Remain Resilient Despite P/C Underwriting Losses in 2020 April 22, 2021 By L.S. Howard Despite the combined effects of around $25 billion of pandemic and natural catastrophe-related losses as well compromised investment returns, a...
‘Insure Our Future’ Pressures Lloyd’s to ‘Immediately Stop’ Insuring Fossil Fuel Projects April 15, 2021 By L.S. Howard Insure our Future, the anti-fossil-fuel campaign group, is pressuring Lloyd’s to immediately stop insuring coal and new oil and gas...
How SpottedRisk and TigerRisk Tamed ‘Live Cat’ COVID Event for Entertainment Insureds April 7, 2021 By L.S. Howard In the early months of the pandemic last year, brokers just couldn’t place insurance for the entertainment industry. In late...
BI Innovation Coming Soon: Low-Limit Policies from Insurtech Thimble April 5, 2021 By L.S. Howard See a need and then fill it. That’s the secret of most successful businesses — and that was the driving...
Global Insurers Paid $89 Billion for Natural, Manmade Disasters in 2020: Swiss Re April 5, 2021 By L.S. Howard Natural and man-made catastrophes cost the insurance industry US$89 billion in 2020, in the fifth costliest year since 1970, according...
Global Insurers Paid $89 Billion for Natural, Manmade Disasters in 2020: Swiss Re March 30, 2021 By L.S. Howard Natural and man-made catastrophes cost the insurance industry US$89 billion in 2020, in the fifth costliest year since 1970, according...
Towergate Buys AFL Retail Team, Following a Separate AFL Team Move Last Week March 25, 2021 By L.S. Howard Towergate Insurance Brokers announced it has exchanged contracts to purchase the corporate retail book of business from AFL Insurance Brokers,...
UFG Insurance to Diversify Risk Profile by Expanding into Reinsurance Across U.S. March 23, 2021 By L.S. Howard UFG Insurance is looking to diversify across the U.S. by expanding into assumed reinsurance business – partly via quota share...