Latest Germany Headlines

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Allianz and Generali Plan to Sell Life Insurance Assets: Sources

May 28 2020 // Two of Europe’s largest insurers are gearing up to sell billions of euros in life assets — a niche corner of dealmaking keeping bankers busy amid the coronavirus pandemic.Allianz SE is planning to divest as...

SAP Admits to Security Lapses in Some Products, but Says There Was No Data Breach

May 6 2020 // Business software group SAP disclosed on Tuesday that some of its cloud products did not meet contractual or statutory security standards and said it would take remedial action to fix the problem as soon as possible.The...

German Judge Casts Doubt on VW’s Defense in Landmark Diesel-Damages Case

May 5 2020 // Tuesday’s proceedings were the first time that Germany’s Federal Court of Justice, or Bundesgerichtshof, heard arguments from a plaintiff seeking damages from VW because it had sold vehicles with manipulated...

RMS Releases High Definition Models for European Severe Convective Storm

May 5 2020 // RMS, the Newark, Calif.-based risk modeling and analytics firm, announced the release of new European Severe Convective Storm (EU SCS) High Definition Models.The models represent 50,000 years of simulation of hail and...

Allianz Withdraws 2020 Profit Target on Pandemic Uncertainties

May 1 2020 // Allianz SE withdrew its forecast for the year as Europe’s biggest insurer struggles with the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic.Given the economic uncertainty, the board “does not assume that Allianz can...

German Economy Relies on Rhine River – But Levels Are Low Without April Rainfall

Apr 28 2020 // Germany’s spring showers haven’t materialized this year, and that’s drying out the country’s most important river, prompting concerns that key industrial goods might have trouble making it to their...

Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Appoints Grass as CFO, Succeeding Mueller

Apr 21 2020 // Swiss Re Corporate Solutions appoints Matthias Grass as chief financial officer, where he will be responsible for ensuring the Swiss Re business unit achieves its financial targets and implements its strategy.He will...

Notre Dame Restoration Halted by France’s Coronavirus Lockdown

Apr 20 2020 // Notre Dame Cathedral stands crippled and alone, locked in a dangerous web of warped scaffolding one year after a cataclysmic fire gutted its interior, toppled its famous spire and horrified the world.Some of the 40,000...

Europe Needs Its Own Approach to Coronavirus Tracing, Say German Tech Startups

Apr 15 2020 // Europe should not cede its sovereignty to Silicon Valley when it comes to using technology to help trace those at risk of coronavirus infection, the German developers of a smartphone app said on Tuesday.Apple and Google...

Lemonade Launches in Its 2nd European Country: The Netherlands

Apr 2 2020 // Lemonade, the New York-based insurer that is powered by artificial intelligence, has launched in a second European country – the Netherlands.Dutch consumers can now get contents and liability insurance instantly,...

Germany to Provide Credit Insurance Guarantees to Keep Trade Flowing: Sources

Apr 2 2020 // The German government and the country’s credit insurance industry have agreed to help to maintain insurance cover for trade despite economic hardship related to the coronavirus outbreak, three people with knowledge...

Supply Chain Problems Move from China to U.S. and Other Nations

Mar 23 2020 // Freight carriers are struggling to deliver goods by land, sea or air as the coronavirus pandemic forces Western governments to impose lockdowns, threatening supplies of vital products including medicines into the most...

Western Supply Chains Begin to Buckle on Expanding Coronavirus Lockdowns

Mar 23 2020 // Freight carriers are struggling to deliver goods by land, sea or air as the coronavirus pandemic forces Western governments to impose lockdowns, threatening supplies of vital products including medicines into the most...

European Insurers’ Coronavirus BI Claims Likely to Be Limited: Moody’s, ABI

Mar 20 2020 // Insurers in the UK, France and Germany are likely to face only moderate business interruption (BI) claims as a result of the coronavirus outbreak because pandemic-related claims are excluded from most business interruption...

Coronavirus Drives Patients to Online Doctors, Spurring Telemedicine Sector

Mar 13 2020 // The new coronavirus that’s forcing lockdowns and roiling economies is spurring a silent revolution in the field of telemedicine.As COVID-19 spreads across Europe, leaving new patients in its wake, the fear of...

Europe’s Storm Dragi-Eberhard Cost Insurers €782M (US$882.9M): PERILS

Mar 9 2020 // PERILS, the independent Zurich-based organization that provides industry-wide catastrophe insurance data, disclosed its fourth and final loss estimate of €782 million (US$882.9 million) for Europe’s Extratropical...

HDI Group Takes Stake in German Cyber-Security Start-Up Enginsight

Feb 27 2020 // HDI Group, the Hannover, Germany-based subsidiary of Talanx Group, has taken a stake in the cyber-security start-up Enginsight in Jena, Germany.Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Enginsight offers...

BHSI Taps Swiss Re’s Weinmann to Head Customer & Broker Engagement in Germany

Feb 20 2020 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) announced further expansion of its European team, naming Daniel Weinmann as head of Customer & Broker Engagement in Germany.Weinmann comes to BHSI with more than 20 years...

Storm Sabine (AKA Ciara) Cost Insurers $731M in Germany: GDV

Feb 18 2020 // Storm Sabine caused insured losses of 675 million euros ($731 million) in Germany this month, the GDV Insurance Association said on Tuesday, making it the sixth most costly storm in Europe’s largest economy since...

Insured Losses for Europe’s Storm Ciara-Sabine Could Hit $2 Billion: Modeling Firms

Feb 14 2020 // Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimates that insured losses due to wind from Europe’s winter storm Ciara (also known as Sabine) will range between €1.1 billion and €1.9 billion (US$1.2 billion and...