June 2, 2023
A recent report by the Medical Professional Liability Association shows the medical professional liability insurance sector’s combined ratio improved from 108.1% in 2021 to 102.2% in 2022 – marking the industry’s best performance since 2017. However, the industry still has …
June 2, 2023
Reinsurance rates continued to harden during the June 1 renewals, with risk-adjusted property-catastrophe pricing up 33% on average, according to reinsurance broker Howden Tiger. Prices rose within a typical range of 25% to 40%, including important variations by layer, which …
May 23, 2023
The Bank of Canada on Thursday [May 18] said it was worried that a major cyber attack on one part of the financial system could quickly spread and threaten overall financial stability. In an annual review of Canada’s financial system, …
May 23, 2023
The world’s ‘carbon majors’ in the energy, utilities and mining sectors face the biggest share price hit when climate-related lawsuits are filed against them and need to consider it a financial risk, a study on Tuesday showed. The paper by …
May 16, 2023
Oil companies including Shell Plc and Eni SpA should pay $12 billion to repair environmental devastation in Nigeria’s crude-rich Niger Delta, according to a new report. More than six decades of pumping oil has left Bayelsa state “in the grip …
May 8, 2023
Insured losses for New Zealand’s North Island floods of Jan. 27 to Feb. 2 are estimated at NZ$1.75 billion ($1.1 billion), according to PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization that provides industry-wide catastrophe insurance data. This second PERILS’ loss estimate has …
May 5, 2023
More than a third of workplace injuries occur during employees’ first year on the job, regardless of age or industry experience, according to a new report from Travelers. In fact, an employee’s time spent in a particular role is one …
May 3, 2023
The year-over-year decline in D&O insurance prices for the first quarter of 2023 is greater than any prior drop over a comparable period in more than a decade, historical information presented in a new Aon report reveals. Aon’s Quarterly D&O …
May 3, 2023
In striking contrast to last year’s double-digit rate hikes for public directors and officers liability insurance and 100-200% jumps for cyber coverage, some buyers renewing those coverages this spring won’t see their insurance bills increase at all. And many will …
May 3, 2023
Direct premium written through the delegated underwriting authority enterprises (DUAE) market in the United States continued its significant growth rate in 2022, increasing by 13.8 percent to $67.6 billion, according to a new market segment report released by AM Best. …