cyber insurance market News

Clients Buy Higher Limits as Q1 Cyber Increases Follow Moderation Trend: Marsh

For the fifth straight quarter, pricing increases for cyber insurance continued to fall at the start of 2023. According to a new U.S. Cyber Purchasing Trends report from broker Marsh, prices were up 11% in first quarter 2023 compared to …

PLUS Panelists Warn Insurers Not to Get Comfortable Riding the Cyber Rollercoaster

Jeremy Gittler, practice leader and head of Cyber Americas at AXA XL, thinks of the cyber insurance industry as a rollercoaster. He says that after several years of turbulence with the advent of more sophisticated ransomware, the market is slowly …

25 Years: The Journey of Cyber Insurance

While young underwriters may think that cyber insurance is a recent coverage innovation, the line is actually more than two decades old. Here, Kurtis Suhs, a veteran of the cyber insurance industry who served as an investigator and criminal coordinator …

Cyber Premiums Rapidly Grew 74% in 2021: Fitch

According to estimates by Fitch Ratings, direct written premiums (DWP) for standalone and packaged cyber insurance increased 74% to nearly $5 billion in 2021 compared with overall growth for the property casualty industry of 9%, making cyber insurance the fastest …

U.S. Cyber Insurers Face Changing Landscape; Top 20 Cyber Insurers

Cyber insurers have been enjoying a profitable run for several years but are now facing a changed risk landscape with data breaches, ransomware attacks, insurance claims and overall threat awareness increasing. In a report, “Cyber Insurance: Profitability Less Certain as …

State of the Cyber Insurance Market- Top Trends, Insurers and Challenges: A.M. Best

The cyber insurance market continues to grow and underwriting performance in this line remains strong, according to a new industry report. Direct premiums written for both standalone and packaged cyber policies grew about 12 percent in 2018 from $1.8 billion …

Cyber Insurance Growth Slowed in Reaching $2 Billion in 2018, Says Fitch

The cyber insurance market remains a source of growth for U.S. property/casualty insurers; however, that growth is slowing, according to Fitch Ratings. The industry’s total direct written cyber premiums grew 8% in 2018 to $2 billion, down from 37% growth …

Corvus Opens Atlanta Office, Hires Fehrman as VP of Cyber Underwriting

Corvus Insurance has opened an office in Atlanta, its fifth office location, and hired Joel Fehrman, who will serve as vice president of Cyber Underwriting based in the new office. Fehrman joins Corvus with more than 10 years of experience …

How to Turn Today’s Confusion Into a Sustainable Cyber Insurance Market

There has been plenty of talk about how cyber continues to evolve in an ever-changing technology landscape, how cyber risks have become increasingly sophisticated and how the insurance industry needs to keep pace. Meanwhile, the question of how to transform …

To Insure Cyber or Not to Insure Cyber: Cautions and Caveats for Carriers

While there are some issues with the data, virtually every report shows the cyber insurance market growing. Aon Benfield had it growing 37 percent last year to $1.8 billion. It’s profitable and the loss ratio is in the 30s or …