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  • Italian insurers failed by Solvency II volatility adjustment, Ivass says

    29 June 2018

    Mechanism did not protect underwriters from recent bond market turbulence

  • Lloyd's CEO steps down

    29 June 2018

    Inga Beale is to leave her post in 2019

  • California insurance commissioner takes aim at insurers over fire legislation

    29 June 2018

    Dave Jones has condemned insurers’ “insatiable appetite for profit”

  • EU and UK authorities diverge on Brexit preparations

    28 June 2018

    Eiopa repeats its advice to EU insurers to take contingency measures, while UK supervisors step up and reveal legislative plans. Aggelos Andreou reports

  • Hong Kong reinsurers to gain preferential treatment from China

    28 June 2018

    Lower capital charges to be awarded to Chinese insurers ceding business to Hong Kong reinsurers

  • German insurers demand process for assessing UK equivalence post-Brexit

    28 June 2018

    GDV warns UK from venturing too far from Solvency II

  • Ogden rate change leads to halving of PPO use

    28 June 2018

    More accident victims receive lump sum payouts

  • Aviva cites partnerships with third parties as key to underwriting cyber risk

    27 June 2018

    Businesses and individuals have differing expectations of cyber insurance, says Andries Smit

  • German actuaries tell Eiopa: "Stick to your remit"

    26 June 2018

    DAV vice-president Guido Bader talks to David Walker about how the country's actuaries are concerned by Eiopa's new ideas for Solvency II – and the lack of testing around them

  • Solvency II stifling long-term guaranteed products - Insurance Europe

    26 June 2018

    Survey reports half of insurers investing in suboptimal assets