Solar Storm to Hit Earth, Prompting Monitoring by Airlines, Electric Grid Operators April 5, 2022 By Brian K. Sullivan A solar storm will sweep across the Earth Wednesday night, raising prospects of dazzling Northern Lights visible as far south...
Lloyd’s Launches Global Platform to Drive Resilience to World’s Systemic Risks February 8, 2021 Lloyd’s, the insurance and reinsurance marketplace, is launching “Futureset,” a new global platform and community dedicated to driving greater societal...
How to Address the Next Uninsurable Pandemic — A Black Swan Event December 9, 2020 By Lucca de Paoli, Katherine Chiglinsky and Benjamin Robertson There aren’t many contexts where $2 trillion seems like a paltry sum. Then a pandemic comes along. The economic fallout...
Global COVID-19 Insurance Losses to Be Higher than Early Estimates: Lloyd’s Chairman November 19, 2020 By Noor Zainab Hussain and Carolyn Cohn Global insurance losses from the COVID-19 pandemic will be higher this year than the $107 billion Lloyd’s of London had...
COVID-19 Crisis Renews Attention on Systemic (Uninsurable) Risks September 30, 2020 By L.S. Howard Reinsurers and insurers for years have been worried about systemic risks – those uninsurable risks with the potential of surpassing...
A Tough Sell: Insurance Coverage for a China Financial Crisis April 21, 2014 By Vidya Ranganathan Selling insurance against a financial crisis should not be difficult five years after the last one nearly wrecked the global...