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Regulators investigate the private equity-insurer love-in
04 February 2022Private equity companies have been acquiring insurers at an unheard of rate. Now regulators have raised concerns over asset risk and short-term greed overcoming long-term sense, as Sarfraz Thind reports
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US earnings season likely to show significant mortality rise
01 February 2022Deaths not entirely explained by Covid, says AM Best director
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Allstate and John Hancock reward life insureds for safer driving
26 January 2022Telematics technology is fuelling bespoke products
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The golden state becomes too hot to handle
24 January 2022Property catastrophe losses in California have soared, with the result that insurers increasingly don't want to underwrite there. Could this be the beginning of a withdrawal from cat perils in other US states? Sarfraz Thind reports
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Larger, sophisticated insurers will cope better with UK price walking ban
05 January 2022AM Best comments on new rules that came into force this year
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LDTI warning as insurers prepare to report next year
03 December 2021Analysts expect big LDTI numbers after Aflac's $20bn reveal last month
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US senator warns of "massive risk" from fossil fuel underwriting
29 October 2021AM Best research shows few US insurers are fully implementing ESG into underwriting
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Climate factors can positively impact insurers' credit ratings
21 October 2021AM Best's Jessica Botelho-Young described how climate factors affect the ratings process
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Moody's warns of 65% loss ratio for cyber insurers
20 October 2021Insurers are also making progress on eliminating silent cyber insurance coverage, says Moody's
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AM Best: market adaptation key in future ratings process
13 September 2021How re/insurers respond to market trends will be vital, rating agency says