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News
May's North Atlantic storms set to hit insurers for multi-billion dollar losses
Significant damage reported in the US and Canada
Talanx expands its sustainability reporting
German insurer plans for 80% of its GWP to be covered under sustainability reporting standards
UK speciality market suffers costliest ever year in 2017
Catastrophes cost market £4.5bn, up 9.4% on 2016, says EY
Insurers caught in crossfire of Canada's Trans Mountain pipeline
Unfriend Coal has urged insurers to stop backing tar sands projects
Storm Alberto set to hit insurers for near $50m loss
KCC says Alberto is the first named storm in the 2018 hurricane season
RMS responds to AIR's attack on hurricane risk modelling
Aon launches climate and weather risk initiative
US "ring of fire" storm set to hit insurers for $2.5bn
US property casualty market takes $25bn underwriting hit
AIR picks fight with RMS over Atlantic hurricane models
Guy Carpenter to run ModEx cat modelling system
Eiopa adds cyber risk questions to EU-wide stress tests
Analysis
2018 Atlantic hurricane season - the calm after the storm?
Last year's Atlantic hurricane season was one of the most catastrophic in recent memory with insured losses estimated at over $130bn. Now 12 months later and on the first official day of the season, forecasters believe relative calmness awaits. But forecasters are often wrong. Paul Walsh reports.
Cyber risk still a struggle for insurers
Progress in managing cyber risk exposures is continuing, but are insurers doing enough to convince regulators that they understand what they're doing? Paul Walsh reports
Lloyd's syndicates despair after reinsurance catastrophe rate rises vanish
Veterans express "horror" at the lack of movement in reinsurance rates after 2017's natural catastrophes, as David Walker reports
The beginning of the end for coal investment and underwriting
Insurers have made efforts to disengage themselves from the coal industry on both sides of the balance sheet, but climate activists say they could do more. Cintia Cheong wraps up the latest developments
Lloyd's syndicates detail extent of natcat losses
Annual accounts from Lloyd's syndicates show a leap in combined ratios and losses following 2017's natural catastrophes. David Walker analyses the figures
Axa's Buberl defends takeover of XL
Axa's share price dropped almost 10% following the announcement of its plan to acquire XL Group. Aggelos Andreou reports on the rationale behind the deal
