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London market modernisation could accelerate post-pandemic: Bolton, Gracechurch
29th April 2020
Certain trends across the London insurance and reinsurance market that were in motion prior to the COVID-19 outbreak are expected to accelerate as a result of the pandemic, according to Ben Bolton, Managing Director at Gracechurch Consulting. Prior to the rapid spread of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Lloyd's and wider ... Read the full article
Liberty Mutual sees larger COVID-19 impacts through its investments: CEO Long
28th April 2020
David Long, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Liberty Mutual Holding Company, Inc., expects the financial impact from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on the firm's re/insurance operations to be similar to a moderately sized catastrophe loss. In an announcement, the CEO of Liberty Mutual Holding Company, which is the ... Read the full article
Everest Re sees $150m of Q1 COVID-19 claims, mostly from reinsurance
24th April 2020
Bermuda domiciled reinsurer Everest Re Group, Ltd. has announced estimated pre-tax net first party losses of $150 million in Q1 for claims related to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. The reinsurer says that the majority of the losses are expected to come from its reinsurance operation. Overall, Everest Re expects its first-quarter ... Read the full article
RIMS presses Congress over pandemic risk insurance backstop
22nd April 2020
The risk management society (RIMS) has called for the establishment of a pandemic risk insurance program in the U.S. to accelerate economic recovery to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. As the virus continues to spread the volatile and uncertain financial market environment and subsequent recessionary risks have intensified on a global basis. Currently, ... Read the full article
Stephen Catlin chairs UK pandemic steering group, Pool Re collaborates
21st April 2020
Leaders from across the UK insurance industry have come together to form a new steering group, which will work in collaboration with Pool Re, in an effort to strengthen its response to future pandemics. The primary objective of the group, which met for the first time on Friday April 17th, is ... Read the full article
Mark Watson proposes government reinsurance backstop for pandemic
14th April 2020
Attempts to stimulate the US economy amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic will not work without the introduction of a government reinsurance backstop for pandemic, according to Mark Watson, founder and principal of Aquila Capital Partners and former CEO of Argo Group. Writing as part of an article in Morning Consult, Watson ... Read the full article
AXA’s Buberl proposes pandemic risk pooling scheme
6th April 2020
Thomas Buberl, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of AXA, has said that the company is “ready to take the initiative” to work with governments to develop a risk pooling scheme for pandemics. Speaking in an interview with Le Journal du Dimanche, Buberl said that the industry needs to think about creating a ... Read the full article
Expand terrorism risk act to cover pandemics, says expert
27th March 2020
Zach Finn, an insurance professor with Butler University, has argued that the federal backstop for terrorism should be expanded to include pandemic coverage. Speaking in an interview with AMBestTV, Finn said that the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) in the US could be expanded retroactively to ease the economic impact caused ... Read the full article
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