Ardonagh Group Agrees to Purchase BGC’s Insurance Business for $500 Million May 27, 2021 By L.S. Howard The Ardonagh Group, a leading UK insurance broker, announced it has agreed to acquire the insurance operations of BGC Partners...
Taming ‘Live Cat’ COVID Events in the Entertainment Industry May 17, 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...
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...