Archive

  • Who's to blame for the US insurance crisis?

    01 September 2023

    Is the growing US property insurance crisis caused by greedy insurers or sleepy regulators? Sarfraz Thind speaks to industry and consumer groups to get their perspectives

  • Climate alliances crumbled by anti-woke politics

    01 May 2023

    The unravelling of the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance owes a lot to right-wing US politics, where ESG and climate action is seen as a threat to business, as Sarfraz Thind discovers

  • APCIA hails passing of Florida property insurance bill

    16 December 2022

    The bill creates a $1bn reinsurance fund for flood relief

  • Legal abuse and fraud, not natcats, threaten stability of US property insurers

    25 August 2022

    North American re/insurers have warned of a catastrophe that could bankrupt the insurance industry - and it's nothing to do with hurricanes or earthquakes, as Josh Geer reports

  • Fighting fires in the US

    11 August 2022

    Wildfires are raging once again and insurers are under pressure to maintain coverage in high-risk regions. But the industry can do more to help itself and society as David Sampson, president of the American Property Casualty Insurance Association, explains to Sarfraz Thind

  • The UK's Solvency II reform proposals: reactions summarised

    21 July 2022

    Actuaries, US insurers, environmental campaigners have joined the UK industry in responding to Solvency II reform proposals. Christopher Cundy and David Walker report

  • Insurers feeling hamstrung as protection gaps widen

    21 June 2022

    Current global events and left-field risks are contributing to widening protection gaps and insurers may be restricted in their attempts to reduce them. Paul Walsh reports

  • US reiterates its opposition to ICS

    16 June 2022

    IAIS meeting in Croatia starts today with international rule causing continued discord

  • The US climate split

    25 April 2022

    The knives are out on what US insurers need reveal about their climate-related exposures. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • 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