Archive

  • Insurance regulators call for moderation on anti-fossil fuel policies

    06 March 2023

    Need to look at climate change incrementally, says NAIC head

  • Insuring the Big One

    25 January 2023

    The US population is underinsured against earthquakes despite the frequent reminders of how serious this peril can be. Then again, covering quakes is just not easy, as Sarfraz Thind reports

  • IAIS 2022: bringing the party back to insurance

    28 June 2022

    June's meeting of international regulators was a sunny affair in an idyllic setting. Even the ever-lurking shadow of the ICS couldn't spoil the party after two years of isolation. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • Global convergence of ICS regime is unlikely, Fitch warns

    05 May 2022

    The first two years of the global insurance capital standard's monitoring period have been completed

  • 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

  • Former NAIC president Eric Cioppa to retire

    11 March 2022

    Cioppa spent 33 years at the Maine Bureau of Insurance

  • 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

  • InsuranceERM's top US stories of 2021

    30 December 2021

    US editor Sarfraz Thind picks out four key themes

  • The FIO's climate letters reveal burning desires

    30 November 2021

    The Federal Insurance Office (FIO) has published a raft of comment letters after its request for information on climate regulation. Could this be the tinder to spark new rules? Sarfraz Thind reports

  • FSOC climate report: more talk than action

    01 November 2021

    US Federal authorities released their much-awaited report on climate risk in the finance industry. Though comprehensive on current practices, the report treads lightly in its recommendations for what should be done. Sarfraz Thind explains