Archive

  • Regulators investigate the private equity-insurer love-in

    04 February 2022

    Private 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

  • US earnings season likely to show significant mortality rise

    01 February 2022

    Deaths not entirely explained by Covid, says AM Best director

  • Allstate and John Hancock reward life insureds for safer driving

    26 January 2022

    Telematics technology is fuelling bespoke products

  • The golden state becomes too hot to handle

    24 January 2022

    Property 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

  • Larger, sophisticated insurers will cope better with UK price walking ban

    05 January 2022

    AM Best comments on new rules that came into force this year

  • LDTI warning as insurers prepare to report next year

    03 December 2021

    Analysts expect big LDTI numbers after Aflac's $20bn reveal last month

  • US senator warns of "massive risk" from fossil fuel underwriting

    29 October 2021

    AM Best research shows few US insurers are fully implementing ESG into underwriting

  • Climate factors can positively impact insurers' credit ratings

    21 October 2021

    AM Best's Jessica Botelho-Young described how climate factors affect the ratings process

  • Moody's warns of 65% loss ratio for cyber insurers

    20 October 2021

    Insurers are also making progress on eliminating silent cyber insurance coverage, says Moody's

  • AM Best: market adaptation key in future ratings process

    13 September 2021

    How re/insurers respond to market trends will be vital, rating agency says