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  • LA wildfires set to be record insured loss event, but re/insurers can absorb impact

    10 January 2025

    Some estimates suggest insured losses are at $20bn already

  • Volker Kudszus: motor claims inflation is still a challenge for insurers

    10 January 2025

    Volker Kudszus, managing director and sector lead for insurance ratings EMEA at S&P Global Ratings, says insurers have demonstrated resilience in their modelling, but motor claims inflation is still an issue

  • Länsförsäkringar's Magnus Strömgren: tackling Sweden's tech risk challenges

    07 January 2025

    The Swedish mutual insurance group's CRO discusses his role and the company's responses to an environment of regulatory and technological change, with Sarfraz Thind

  • Simon Grout: are emerging risk frameworks effective?

    07 January 2025

    FTI Consulting senior managing director Simon Grout picks out AI, climate and emerging risk frameworks as key themes for risk management teams this year

  • Chinese motor insurers capitalise on EV boom

    06 January 2025

    However, higher claims costs and frequency create challenges, says AM Best

  • China Taiping reinsurer launches cat bond in Hong Kong

    02 January 2025

    Bond covers two natcat risks in US and China, respectively

  • Strong reinsurer appetite drives loss-free property cat rates down at 1 Jan renewals

    30 December 2024

    But prices rise up to 30% for loss-affected books, says Guy Carpenter

  • Insurers excluding deep sea mining coverage amid sustainability risks - UPDATED

    20 December 2024

    Four re/insurers have so far excluded the practice of deep sea mining

  • Hastings Direct names Briony Horvath group CRO

    19 December 2024
  • Australia's property insurance model caught off-guard by climate change

    17 December 2024

    A series of unprecedented disasters has revealed serious flaws in how the non-life insurance sector operates, but critics are making suggestions on how to improve matters, as David Walker discovers