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Lloyd’s & Parsyl partner on COVID vaccine distribution initiative
15th December 2020
Lloyd’s of London has partnered with supply chain data platform Parsyl to launch an insurance initiative for the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. The public-private collaboration includes 14 global re/insurers and aims to address critical risks faced by COVID-19 vaccines and other health commodities during distribution. The initiative involves the launch of a ... Read the full article
McGill and Partners adapted well to COVID-19: Paul Summers
10th December 2020
Whilst some in the (re)insurance industry are still reeling from the shock of COVID-19, start-up specialist (re)insurance broker McGill and Partners says a focus on technology and creativity has allowed it to adapt well to the pandemic. This is the view of Paul Summers, Head of Global Facultative Reinsurance, who in ... Read the full article
Munich Re to halt event cancellation cover for pandemics
8th December 2020
Reinsurance giant Munich Re has confirmed that it will stop writing coverage for events cancelled due to pandemics. Munich Re unveiled its “Ambition 2025” growth and results targets earlier today, which include a targeted return on equity of 12-14% by 2025 and a combined ratio of approximately 95% in property ... Read the full article
Major League Baseball sues insurers over pandemic BI losses
8th December 2020
As the legal battles over the status of business interruption (BI) claims connected to the pandemic continue to play out, Major League Baseball (MLB) has announced that it intends to sue its insurance providers. The League and all 30 of its teams plan to file a lawsuit against their insurers over ... Read the full article
Historic cats, large pandemic losses dent NA P/C insurers in 9M20: Fitch
2nd December 2020
The high frequency of catastrophe events experienced in the U.S. through the third-quarter of 2020, coupled with a substantial level of additional losses related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, hindered the performance of North American (NA) property/casualty (P/C) re/insurers in 9M 2020, reports Fitch Ratings. Fitch's analysis looks at the 9M ... Read the full article
Munich Re adds €1.1bn of COVID-19 losses; 2020 total hits €3.4bn
1st December 2020
Global reinsurance giant Munich Re has reported that its reinsurance operation is set to book COVID-19 related losses of €3.4 billion in 2020, while additional burdens of roughly €500 million are anticipated to come from the pandemic in 2021. For Q3 2020, the reinsurer announced a further €800 million of ... Read the full article
Lloyd’s expects industry-wide COVID losses to exceed $107bn estimate: reports
19th November 2020
The Chairman of Lloyd's of London, Bruce Carnegie-Brown, said at a recent Reuters event that the global insured loss from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will exceed the market's previous estimate of $107 billion. Back in May, the specialist insurance and reinsurance marketplace said that it expects to pay customers up to ... Read the full article
COVID-19 could see Lloyd’s look more like a coffee shop again: Carnegie-Brown
16th November 2020
In a recent interview with the Mail on Sunday, Lloyd's of London Chairman Bruce Carnegie-Brown remarked how the historic re/insurance market could end up looking more like a coffee shop again. It's well known that Lloyd's, the oldest insurance market in the world, started life as a coffee shop some 334 ... Read the full article
Human behaviour critical to pandemic & cyber modelling: CyberCube
16th November 2020
A new report by cyber analytics provider CyberCube stresses the importance of understanding and predicting human behaviour when it comes to modelling both pandemic and cyber risk. According to the report, which sets out to understand the lessons both pandemic and cyber modelers could learn from each other, the potential for ... Read the full article
Pandemic is insurable, government actions are not: Prospectus 2021
13th November 2020
During the opening panel of the Prospectus 2021 online conference, David Flandro, Managing Director at Hyperion X Analytics argued that the private market is fully capable of handling pandemic risk, but not the accompanying government actions. Prospectus 2021, the new annual conference by Reinsurance News and Artemis, kicked off yesterday ... Read the full article
Credit risks accelerating for US insurers on COVID-19 fallout, warns Fitch
11th November 2020
Analysis by Fitch Ratings warns that insurance companies in the U.S. are facing accelerated credit risks as a result of the economic fallout from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Fitch is expecting longer-term credit implications for U.S. insurers that stretch beyond its three to five-year ratings horizon. The lower for longer interest rate ... Read the full article
Pandemic shock less severe than feared for re/insurers: Swiss Re
11th November 2020
A new sigma study by Swiss Re is forecasting global insurance premium growth of 3.4% in real terms in 2021, following a contraction of 1.4% this year due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The decline was less severe than the 2.8% drop predicted by Swiss Re earlier this year, ... Read the full article
Life & health risks from pandemics are insurable: The Geneva Association
10th November 2020
New research by The Geneva Association finds that life and health risks for pandemics similar to COVID-19 are insurable, but warns that property and casualty (P&C) risks remain too large for the private market. There has been a wide-spread public discussion on how to address the deep financial implications of COVID-19, ... Read the full article
Biggest COVID impact for reinsurers is the investment environment: Transatlantic CEO
27th October 2020
As the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic exacerbates the lower for longer interest rate environment, reinsurance companies have once again placed an emphasis on underwriting profitability. In recent times, the underwriting performance of the global reinsurance industry has been challenged as rate changes and terms and condition improvements have lagged the primary marketplace. The ... Read the full article
AIG announces Q3 cat losses of $790mn; 23% relates to COVID-19
27th October 2020
Global insurer and reinsurer, American International Group, Inc. (AIG), has announced estimated third-quarter 2020 catastrophe losses, net of reinsurance, of $790 million (pre-tax) within its General Insurance segment. Of this total, $185 million, or approximately 23% is for claims related to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, primarily in the segment's travel, event ... Read the full article
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