Archive

  • Tokio Marine chairman to take pay cut after contract data leakage

    12 May 2025

    Sompo and MS&AD units also caught up in information leakage

  • AM Best predicts capital optimising from Japanese asset-intensive reinsurance deals

    07 April 2025

    US insurers wrote $290bn GWP for Japanese owners since 2019

  • Japanese non-life firms get business improvement orders after data breaches

    27 March 2025

    Insurers have until late May to report back on remedial measures

  • Buyer be where? Japanese insurers look beyond the horizon, for M&A deals

    04 December 2024

    The rewards for Japan's insurers of overseas M&A include risk diversification, new customers and profit enhancement - but stakeholders tell David Walker that risks abound, as well

  • Japan insurer motor fraud investigations now stretch back nine years

    25 November 2024

    Policyholders still trust insurers despite widespread claims fraud

  • MS&AD and Sompo heap praise on foreign units in quarterly results

    15 August 2024

    Groups' local non-life units suffered brunt of April hailstorms

  • Sompo unveils plans for major portfolio reform

    12 July 2024

    Excessively supportive relationships with sales agencies to end, Sompo Japan's CEO announces

  • Japanese firms reveal progress on anti-price collusion measures

    17 June 2024

    Tokio Marine is compelling its salespeople to reflect on "uncomfortable" policies

  • Pay cut for Sompo's next CEO Mikio Okumura after Bigmotor fraud

    04 March 2024

    Group CRO also takes 20% pay-cut for three months

  • Sompo faces executive shake-up after fraud hits motor outsourcing partner

    23 January 2024

    Multiple Japanese motor insurers used Bigmotor for claims repairs