Insurers Pressured to Drop Coverage of Canada’s Oil Sands Pipeline August 8, 2019 By Valerie Volcovici A coalition of 32 environmental and indigenous groups on Thursday urged insurers to stop underwriting the Trans Mountain pipeline to...
Munich Re Reports 36% Rise in Q2 Net Profit on Lower Claims from Major Losses August 7, 2019 German reinsurer Munich Re on Wednesday reported a 36% rise in net profit in the second quarter, helped by low...
Artificial Intelligence Helps to Contain Wildfires, Predict Wild Weather August 5, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan On a tower in the Brazilian rainforest, a sentinel scans the horizon for the first signs of fire. Only these...
Parametric Insurance Cover Provides French Farmers with Drought Relief August 2, 2019 By Inti Landauro Hundreds of French farmers who signed up for specialist policies aimed at insuring against freak weather are getting swift payouts...
Space Insurance Premiums Could Double After European Vega Rocket Crash July 31, 2019 By Carolyn Cohn, Tom Sims and Noor Zainab Hussain Space rockets and satellites are likely to cost more to insure after the European Vega rocket crash this month, which...
Norway Insurer Protector Expects Q2 Loss After Grenfell Fire Ruling with Munich Re July 10, 2019 Shares in Protector Forsikring fell 12% on Wednesday after the Norwegian insurer warned about a second-quarter loss, partly because it...
Pool Re Buys Non-Damage BI Retro Cover in Program Led by Liberty Specialty July 8, 2019 Pool Re, Britain’s terrorism reinsurer, announced the placement of its new retrocession program covering non-damage business interruption (NDBI) losses. The...
30% of Disaster Claims Settled After Desk Audit Using Munich Re Remote Tool, Images July 1, 2019 By Jim Sams Munich Re had teamed up with a unit of the National Insurance Crime Bureau to offer insurance carriers an analytics...
Dutch Insurer Weighs Cutting Cover for Gambling, Arms, Nuclear Power June 24, 2019 By Ruben Munsterman and Will Hadfield Europe’s biggest insurers refuse to sell policies to coal miners and arms producers. A Dutch firm may go further by...
Nobody Seems to Know Why Hail Storm Losses Suddenly Began Rising in 2008 June 17, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan In 2008, the year the stock market crashed and Barack Obama won the presidency, the U.S. was hit with a...