Insurers Face Disputes with Their Reinsurers over UK COVID-19 Business Income Claims March 11, 2021 By Carolyn Cohn and Kirstin Ridley Top insurance companies, ordered by Britain’s highest court to pay thousands of small businesses millions of pounds in claims for...
BI Innovation Coming Soon: Low-Limit Policies from Insurtech Thimble March 11, 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 motivator of...
Total Pandemic Losses for P/C Insurers Will Take Years to Determine: Fitch March 10, 2021 By Fitch Ratings Incurred pandemic losses for U.S. property/casualty insurers increased only modestly in fourth quarter of 2020 from earlier quarters in the...
Some Insurers Strengthening Virus Exclusion Language in Policies After COVID Cases March 5, 2021 By Alwyn Scott U.S. insurers are strengthening language in policies that cover business losses to protect them from future claims related to the...
Insurers Don’t Have Capacity to Handle Systemic Pandemic Risk: Generali CEO March 4, 2021 MILAN – Europe’s insurance industry doesn’t have the capacity to deal with the systemic risk of a pandemic and more...
Hiscox Cites Loss on COVID, BI Dispute ‘Brand Damage’; Will Alter Liability, Cyber Books March 3, 2021 By Muvija M British insurer Hiscox reported a big loss for 2020 after a jump in claims from businesses disrupted by the COVID-19...
Judge Advances Multidistrict COVID Business Interruption Case Against Society Insurance February 24, 2021 By Jim Sams A federal judge denied Society Insurance’s motions to dismiss three “bellwether” lawsuits filed by hospitality businesses that were denied coverage...
Investors Eye Windfall From Denied COVID-19 Insurance Claims February 12, 2021 By Jef Feeley and Lucca de Paoli A growing market niche where investors profit from others’ legal troubles is getting a boost from Covid. Distressed-investing funds and...
Irish Pubs Entitled to Get Lockdown Insurance Payments from FBD: High Court Ruling February 5, 2021 DUBLIN – Ireland’s High Court ruled on Friday that four publicans insured by FBD were entitled to be indemnified for...
Repair Your Damaged Reputations, AM Best Tells UK Insurers February 2, 2021 While most of the COVID-related problems that plagued UK commercial property insurers will abate after the March anniversary of lockdowns,...