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News
Caribbean insurers face up to $85bn losses from Maria, AIR estimates
Puerto Rico absorbs more than 85% of the loss
Lloyd's hires catastrophe risk expert from Scor
Kirsten Mitchell-Wallace succeeds David Clouston
Expected US and Caribbean hurricane losses - UPDATED
Mapfre estimates net loss impact and warns of ROE and CR miss
Cat risk firms assess Mexican Puebla earthquake losses
The Puebla M7.1 earthquake was the second to hit Mexico this month
Scor to confront climate campaigners on coal underwriting
Reinsurer's coal disengagement policy has ‘many serious loopholes’, says Unfriend Coal
RMS warns of potential $55bn insured Irma losses
Mexico suffers second catastrophic earthquake in a month
Irma and Harvey losses to may eliminate P&C reinsurance profits
Hurricanes blow Munich Re off course to meet full-year profit expectations
Early estimates for Irma's insured losses reach $60bn
US and Indian catastrophes highlight yawning insurance gap
Insured loss from hurricane Harvey could hit $40bn
Analysis
Reinsuring Africa in a soft market: One Re CRO
The young reinsurer One Re is somewhat of a specialist, focusing as it does on non-life risks facing clients in Africa. But its chief risk officer Ross McGee tells David Walker that the challenges remain the same, including reporting challenges under Solvency II, soft markets, and risk models.
Insurers under fire for underwriting coal industry
Divesting from coal companies while continuing to underwrite them is a 'blind spot' of insurers' climate policies, according to campaigners. Cintia Cheong investigates what four insurers are doing about it
Insurers struggle with "connected risk" in high-tech, globalised market
The increasing connectedness of the global economy means risks and vulnerabilities are changing. How can insurers hope to keep up with highly dynamic supply chains in a more interdependent world? Christopher Cundy reports
Turning liability into opportunity
There is growing evidence that exposure to phthalates has serious health impacts. Excluding phthalates from insurance contracts might be the natural response, but modelling the exposure could allow firms to see the risk as a business opportunity rather than a threat, as Praedicat chief executive Robert Reville tells Callum Tanner
Insurers still struggling with cyber risk management
Last year’s attack on DNS provider Dyn and a warning from the UK regulator on the aggregation of cyber risks have had a big influence on the way insurers are thinking about cyber risk modelling and management. Callum Tanner reports from the Advisen cyber risk conference in London
Why London is losing out to Bermuda after major catastrophes
The failure of the London Market to attract the majority of new reinsurance capital after major US catastrophes is in large part down to the flexibility of regulators. For now, Bermuda retains the advantage. Callum Tanner reports
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Market Insight
IFRS 17 and the challenges ahead
The new insurance contracts accounting standard brings a dramatic shift in accounting and actuarial practices, and insurers should be prepared for implementation challenges, as Kamran Foroughi explains
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Market Insight
High velocity risk management
A rapidly changing world produces rapidly emerging risks that can flummox even the most comprehensive of risk management frameworks. Neil Cantle proposes an approach to improving how insurers respond to today's threats...