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Cyber insurance and reinsurance news, covering the growth of cyber reinsurance underwriting, the risks faced by cyber risk insurer’s, major cyber loss events, cyber reinsurance product development and cyber risk innovation trends.
Cyber risk is an emerging and fast-growing class of insurance and reinsurance business, so our cyber reinsurance news follows industry trends and reports on innovations, industry cyber risk capacity issues, as well as what is happening in the cyber underwriting market.
US cyber insurance payouts increase, amid rising claims: Fitch
19th May 2022
Analysts at Fitch Ratings have said, that cyber insurance has become the fastest growing segment for US property & casualty (P&C) insurers as evolving threats have “boosted” the demand for coverage, with insurers actively raising prices in response to rising claims. In the analysts latest report on the US cyber insurance ... Read the full article
Cyber attacks driving insolvency fears into businesses: Hiscox
18th May 2022
According to the latest Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report, 20% of businesses across eight countries said that a cyber attack almost rendered them insolvent, a 24% increase compared to last years report. The Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report, now in its sixth year, surveyed over 5,000 businesses in the US, UK, Ireland, Belgium, ... Read the full article
At-Bay launches new cyber insurance program, backed by Trisura & HSB
16th May 2022
Cyber insurance provider At-Bay has announced the launch of a new cyber insurance program backed by two leaders within specialty insurance – Trisura Specialty Insurance Company and The Hartford Steam Boiler (HSB). Trisura serves as the new issuing carrier for the cyber and tech errors and omissions (E&O) program, while HSB ... Read the full article
Insurance not the sole solution to cyber resilience: Swiss Re’s Ermotti
13th May 2022
Sergio P. Ermotti, Chairman of the Board of Directors, has stressed that, while insurance go some way towards mitigating the impact of cyber risks, it “is not the sole solution” to cyber resilience. Cyber risks have become even more prominent since the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as working ... Read the full article
AXA XL adds three to its cyber incident response team in North America
13th May 2022
AXA XL has added Jeanelle Dawes-Ghee, Yelizaveta (Liz) Veys, and Bridget Mead as claims specialists to its cyber incident response team in North America. The firm said that the three will report into Gwenn Cujdik, North America cyber incident response manager. Veys and Mead will be based in Exton, Pennsylvania, while ... Read the full article
Cyber pricing acceleration expected to continue through H1: JP Morgan
9th May 2022
Analysts at J.P Morgan have stated that cyber insurance is one of the fastest growing markets within insurance with premiums growing at a 27% CAGR (2017-21), but despite the high growth in the class, analysts have said that profitability is strong, with an average combined ratio of 77% vs 100% ... Read the full article
Majesco & CyberCube partner to meet cyber demand
9th May 2022
Majesco, a global provider of cloud insurance software solutions for insurance business transformation, has announced a partnership with CyberCube – a global provider of advanced solutions for cyber insurance risk modelling, rating and underwriting. The partnership between the two companies will accelerate the use of expanded sources of data, signals, and ... Read the full article
Economic climate and cyber attacks biggest D&O concerns – WTW
3rd May 2022
The economic climate and cyber attacks remain high on the mind for respondents to WTW’s latest Directors’ Liability Survey Report. The report, collated from answers from respondents across 40 countries, found that the five top risks to directors were said to be cyber-attack, data loss, cyber extortion, regulatory risk, and prosecuting ... Read the full article
Acrisure partners with Coalition to unveil Cyber Risk Assessment
3rd May 2022
Global insurance broker, Acrisure, has announced that it has entered into a partnership with cyber insurance and security provider, Coalition. Acrisure’s Cyber Services division will offer the Coalition Risk Assessment, which is designed to help small and mid-size organisations understand their cyber and digital risk exposure. The risk assessment offers a personalised ... Read the full article
Beazley has war exclusions in every cyber policy: J.P Morgan
27th April 2022
In a report released by J.P Morgan based on findings from a recent conference call with Beazley’s Global Head of Cyber & Technology, Paul Bantick, to discuss the specialist insurers cyber business, it states that Beazley has war exclusions in every cyber policy. The report adds that the exclusions have two ... Read the full article
CyberCube partners with actuarial capital modeller
26th April 2022
Cyber risk analytics firm CyberCube has announced a new partnership with Ultimate Risk Solutions (URS), a provider of actuarial capital modelling to the insurance and reinsurance sectors. The partnership will see URS integrate CyberCube’s Portfolio Manager model outputs with its Risk Explorer financial analysis software for insurers and reinsurers. Risk Explorer models ... Read the full article
Probitas 1492 hires Richard Taylor as Head of Cyber & Technology
25th April 2022
Probitas 1492, an underwriting Syndicate at Lloyd’s of London has appointed former Munich Re Syndicate Limited, Senior Cyber Underwriter - Richard Taylor, to Head of Cyber & Technology. Within his new role at Probitas 1492, Taylor brings over 13 years of experience within the industry. During his time at Munich Re Syndicate ... Read the full article
COVID-19 highlighted concerns around cyber risk: BMA
22nd April 2022
According to a new report from the Bermuda Monetary Authority, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a growing interest and concern around cyber risk and the need for a robust cyber insurance market. As organisations are forced to continue to operate in remote working environments, cyber threat actors continue to exploit inherent ... Read the full article
US cyber direct written premiums increased by 74% in 2021: Fitch
21st April 2022
According to rating agency Fitch Ratings, US standalone and packaged cyber statutory direct written premiums increased by 74% in 2021, to nearly $5 billion compared with a 9% growth for the property & casualty (P&C) industry overall. This major growth was driven by heightened policyholder risk awareness and greater demand for ... Read the full article
Corvus Insurance finds 2021 average ransoms paid by quarter were down 44.2%
19th April 2022
Corvus Insurance has released findings from its second Corvus Risk Insights Index - a compilation of industry trends and data analysis based on the company’s IT security scanning technology, the Corvus Scan. One of the major findings from the report was that ransomware attacks are down from recent peaks, as the ... Read the full article
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