Archive

  • Cat modelling awakens to climate change risk

    07 April 2020

    Responsibility for understanding the implications of climate change for insurers has largely fallen on the shoulders of the catastrophe modelling community. They are responding with a more dynamic and multi-faceted view, as Paul Walsh reports

  • AIR warns of up to 230,000 Covid-19 deaths by mid-April

    02 April 2020

    More than 200 countries, areas and territories have confirmed cases of Covid-19

  • Modelling the virus

    10 March 2020

    The spread of Covid-19 has not come as a surprise to everyone. Analytics firms are looking at the thousands of situations to model pandemics every day. However, it seems insurers are not quite up to scratch. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • AIR Worldwide assesses next wave of countries at risk from coronavirus

    03 March 2020

    The catastrophe modeller used its pandemic model to run hypothetical scenarios

  • Competition makes loyalty penalty difficult to end, says Direct Line chief

    26 February 2020

    Penny James addressed the loyalty penalty issue at the ABI conference

  • IASB's Hoogervorst defends IFRS 17 as global standard, despite US exclusion

    18 February 2020

    Chair of accounting standards board says life insurer troubles could have been avoided

  • AIR predicts up to €1.9bn Ciara/Sabine insured losses

    14 February 2020

    The storm caused damage and disruption to large parts of the UK and Europe

  • AIR Worldwide estimates up to 250,000 could be infected with coronavirus

    31 January 2020

    But Fitch says as things stand, Chinese life firms adequately capitalised for earnings hit

  • Stronger and more frequent hurricanes on the way, warns AIR Worldwide

    06 December 2019

    The catastrophe risk modeller said stronger and more frequent cyclones are likely in the future

  • Eiopa chief prioritises other issues ahead of dual pricing review

    05 November 2019

    Gabriel Bernardino outlines conduct risk issues to MEPs