Three new reports published recently provide a sizeable assortment of diagnoses, prognoses, and remedies for increasingly volatile commercial insurance markets. When viewed as a compiled list of problems and solutions, one can safely assume the industry has its work cut …
At a recent seminar on the use of alternative risk transfers (ART) in hard markets, “ART Solutions in a Time of Capacity Shortage,” global reinsurer Swiss Re, which hosted the event, noted that more and more of its clients are …
Recently, the White House unveiled the National Plan to Secure Cyberspace, an initiative urging insurers and companies to assess and manage exposures to cyber risk. Among other things, the plan calls for developing new best practices and standards for this …
Workers’ compensation, affected both by the capacity shortage across commercial lines after Sept. 11 and ever-increasing health insurance costs, remains an extremely difficult cover to place, and is likely to stay that way for some time. Major insurers still active …
Recently, the White House unveiled the national plan to Secure Cyberspace, an initiative urging insurers and companies to assess and manage exposures to cyber risk. Among other things, the plan calls for developing new best practices and standards for this …
As more and more reinsurers become increasingly timorous in a hard market yet to peak, one of the most acutely affected business lines have been programs. Reinsurance capacity for many standard commercial lines has dropped substantially, especially after Sept. 11, …
As more and more reinsurers become increasingly timorous in a hard market yet to peak, one of the most acutely affected business lines has been programs. Reinsurance capacity for many standard commercial lines has dropped substantially, especially after Sept. 11, …
By now, it’s hardly an exaggeration that medical-malpractice liability insurance markets in several states are in crisis. As is the case with so many other insurance lines, the exodus of medical liability carriers leaves physicians and other health care providers—especially …
By now, it’s hardly an exaggeration that medical-malpractice liability insurance markets in several states are in crisis. As is the case with so many other insurance lines, the exodus of medical liability carriers leaves physicians and other health care providers—especially …
As far as commercial property and casualty coverages are concerned, it goes without saying that individual companies require specific types of policies to most effectively address risks inherent to their industries. The biotechnology industry is no exception—on the contrary, it …
