‘Insure Our Future’ Pressures Lloyd’s to ‘Immediately Stop’ Insuring Fossil Fuel Projects April 15, 2021 By L.S. Howard Insure our Future, the anti-fossil-fuel campaign group, is pressuring Lloyd’s to immediately stop insuring coal and new oil and gas...
How SpottedRisk and TigerRisk Tamed ‘Live Cat’ COVID Event for Entertainment Insureds April 7, 2021 By L.S. Howard In the early months of the pandemic last year, brokers just couldn’t place insurance for the entertainment industry. In late...
BI Innovation Coming Soon: Low-Limit Policies from Insurtech Thimble April 5, 2021 By L.S. Howard See a need and then fill it. That’s the secret of most successful businesses — and that was the driving...
Global Insurers Paid $89 Billion for Natural, Manmade Disasters in 2020: Swiss Re April 5, 2021 By L.S. Howard Natural and man-made catastrophes cost the insurance industry US$89 billion in 2020, in the fifth costliest year since 1970, according...
Global Insurers Paid $89 Billion for Natural, Manmade Disasters in 2020: Swiss Re March 30, 2021 By L.S. Howard Natural and man-made catastrophes cost the insurance industry US$89 billion in 2020, in the fifth costliest year since 1970, according...
Towergate Buys AFL Retail Team, Following a Separate AFL Team Move Last Week March 25, 2021 By L.S. Howard Towergate Insurance Brokers announced it has exchanged contracts to purchase the corporate retail book of business from AFL Insurance Brokers,...
UFG Insurance to Diversify Risk Profile by Expanding into Reinsurance Across U.S. March 23, 2021 By L.S. Howard UFG Insurance is looking to diversify across the U.S. by expanding into assumed reinsurance business – partly via quota share...
BI Innovation Coming Soon: Low-Limit Policies from Insurtech Thimble March 11, 2021 By L.S. Howard See a need and then fill it. That’s the secret of most successful businesses—and that was the driving motivator of...
Reinsurers Saw ‘Good’ Rate Hikes in January Renewals, but Will Be Asking for More: S&P March 2, 2021 By L.S. Howard Global property and casualty reinsurers saw “good” rate increases during the January 2021 renewals but they came up short of...
Finland’s Sampo Steps Up Move to Become Pure Insurance Group, Cutting Nordea Stake February 24, 2021 By L.S. Howard Finnish financial group Sampo plc is continuing its transformation into a pure insurance group with an announcement that it will...