Archive

  • Japanese regulator targets Sompo Japan on price fixing

    16 January 2024

    Fallout from scandal has rocked local insurance market

  • Faulty IT settings on Chubb system triggers customer data warnings in Japan

    15 January 2024

    Agents had unauthorised access to policyholder details

  • Japan's natcat relief laws spur insurers to defer premiums after Monday's earthquake

    03 January 2024

    China's insurers are also helping customers after a local earthquake

  • Japan's finance minister orders improvement in wake of insurance price fixing scandal

    27 December 2023

    Four of the country's biggest insurers caught up in inappropriate business practices

  • Japan's Fair Trade commission looking into antimonopoly violations at Tokio Marine subsidiary - UPDATED

    21 December 2023

    The investigation follows price fixing scandals earlier in the year

  • Sompo International names Emmanuel Brulé as CRO

    17 July 2023
  • NZIA now 10 players down, as Lloyd's and QBE exit

    30 May 2023

    A total of 17 insurers remain in the alliance

  • NZIA disintegrates further as Sompo departs

    26 May 2023

    The Japanese insurance group has become the eighth major firm to withdraw from the coalition

  • Sompo first Japanese insurer to issue social bond

    22 March 2023
  • Exposure management's value becoming clearer to insurers

    13 January 2023

    Sompo International's Alan Godfrey explains how the discipline complements cat modelling