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FloodFlash launches Dealer program to support those denied flood coverage
14th May 2024
FloodFlash, a parametric flood insurer, has added a Dealer program, which is designed to support vehicle sales and rental businesses that have been denied flood coverage, as it looks to support more US businesses ahead of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. One of the key product features is that the program ... Read the full article
Tokio Marine HCC Specialty launches product recall offering team
14th May 2024
Tokio Marine HCC Specialty Group, a member of the Tokio Marine HCC group of companies, has launched a new Product Recall offering in London, with two senior appointments to its Crisis Management team. Mark Hutton has been appointed to the newly created role of Head of Crisis Management, International, effective May ... Read the full article
Insurance alone cannot protect LatAm from El Niño & La Niña disruption: Swiss Re
13th May 2024
To increase resilience, both adaptation and mitigation are needed in Latin America as insurance alone cannot help protect the region from disruption caused by severe weather events brought by El Niño and La Niña, which will also test the long-standing protection gaps, the Swiss Re Institute states. Weather projections suggest a ... Read the full article
ICEYE launches satellite-based solutions for UK insurance market
13th May 2024
ICEYE, a provider of satellite-powered disaster management solutions, has launched a high-resolution Flood Early Warning and ongoing customer pilots of Flood Rapid Impact solutions for the UK insurance market. The company's Flood Early Warning provides four days in advance flood impact forecast prediction at building level resolution, and is overlaid with ... Read the full article
Premium renewal rate increases slowed down in April for majority of commercial lines: Ivans
13th May 2024
In the April 2024 results of the Ivans Index, year over year, Commercial Auto, Business Owner’s Policy (BOP), General Liability, Commercial Property and Umbrella each experienced increasing average premium renewal rates, while premium renewal rates decreased for Workers’ Compensation. At the same time, all major commercial lines premium renewal rates were ... Read the full article
Paragon Insurance expands use of Kalepa’s AI-powered underwriting platform
13th May 2024
Multi-line specialty Managing General Agency (MGA), Paragon Insurance Holdings LLC has expanded its use of Kalepa's AI-powered Copilot underwriting platform to four additional programs. Kalepa’s Copilot will now support Paragon’s underwriters across Workers' Compensation, Specialty Property, Small Construction and Contractors, and Auto Dealers programs to achieve underwriting excellence through improved efficiency, ... Read the full article
New cyber insurance capacity is increasingly matching fast-growing demand, S&P
13th May 2024
A recent analysis by credit rating agency S&P Global Ratings has revealed that new cyber insurance capacity is increasingly matching fast-growing demand, particularly within the United States, and greater competition is said to be leading to decreasing retention levels, as well as lower costs for coverage. Cyber insurance remains one of the ... Read the full article
Bowhead Specialty to raise around $106.6m from IPO
13th May 2024
Bowhead Specialty, a provider of casualty and professional liability products, has announced the launch of the initial public offering (IPO) of 6,666,667 shares of its common stock, aiming to raise as much as $106.6 million. The IPO price, according to the registration statement on Form S-1 filed with the Securities and ... Read the full article
Social inflation challenges continue for US casualty insurers: AM Best
13th May 2024
Over the last decade, the severity of losses in various lines of casualty insurance in the United States has outpaced economic inflation. This trend indicates that additional factors are at play, affecting the costs of claims for both indemnity and expenses, as highlighted in a recent report by AM Best. As ... Read the full article
Home insurance premiums edge up, remaining below historic highs: ABI
13th May 2024
Home insurance premiums in the UK increased by 3% in the first quarter of 2024. Despite this uptick, prices remain below historic highs, according to data from the Association of British Insurers (ABI). Home insurance premiums increased by 3% in the first quarter of 2024, attributed to severe winter weather. Despite ... Read the full article
IUA appoints industry veteran Luis Prato to its Board
13th May 2024
The International Underwriting Association (IUA) has strengthened its Board with the appointment of senior London market veteran Luis Prato, who will join at its next meeting in July. The board, which comprises of 20 senior member representatives, is responsible for governing and overseeing all the association’s work in seeking to secure ... Read the full article
Victor teams with BHSI to expand builders risk & contractors equipment offerings
13th May 2024
Global managing general underwriter Victor has entered into an agreement with Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) to expand coverage capacity for its US builders risk and contractors equipment offerings, effective immediately. As part of the agreement, Victor explained that its builders risk program will be able to offer increased coverage maximums ... Read the full article
Applied Systems sees record growth, expands into new markets
13th May 2024
Applied Systems has reached record commercial lines eTrading growth in the 12 months to March 2024, which has been heavily supported by accelerated take-up of its Applied Epic broker management platform and expansion into new markets. Throughout the last year the number of brokers using Applied’s cloud-based Epic broker ... Read the full article
WTW unveils “market-first” facility for cargo and war-on-land risks in Ukraine
13th May 2024
Global advisory, broking and solutions firm WTW has partnered with Ukrainian insurer, VUSO, to provide a London market-backed facility covering cargo and war-on-land risks. As per WTW, this market-first facility offers "much-needed certainty" to Ukrainian and foreign enterprises moving goods and products overland within the borders of Ukraine. The London Market facility ... Read the full article
Allianz Commercial and Rokstone collaborate on $10m marine cargo facility
13th May 2024
Allianz Commercial and the Aventum Group’s international re/insurance MGA Rokstone have announced a new collaboration for a $10 million facility to write marine cargo business worldwide. This new collaboration will reportedly broaden Allianz’s wholesale Marine distribution and allow Rokstone to write direct and reinsurance cargo business with full binding authority globally ... Read the full article
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