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Why Snow, Hail and Wildfire Are Expensive for Insurance Industry

Aug 17 2021 // If you’re having trouble wrapping your mind around the spree of natural catastrophes currently plaguing the world—from deadly July floods in Germany and China to the wildfires still burning in Greece, California...

In Its Quest for Diversity, Insurance Industry Finds One Size Does Not Fit All

Aug 16 2021 // In the wake of massive protests last year focused on racial equity and social justice, insurers are among the many industries confronting the need to incorporate more diversity into their hiring and business...

Houston’s CrossCover Enters E&S Property Insurance Market

Aug 3 2021 // Houston-based CrossCover Insurance Services, a new managing general underwriter targeting middle-market commercial business, is entering the excess and surplus property market.CrossCover was established in partnership with...

Global P/C Industry Sees Strongest Rate Hikes in 20 Years but Inflation Headwinds Loom

Aug 2 2021 // Robust global economic recovery, higher risk awareness and the strongest rate hardening for 20 years in non-life insurance commercial lines will combine to push premiums 10% above pre-COVID-19-crisis levels this year,...

Insurance Industry Heading to Faster Recovery than After 2008 Financial Crisis: Swiss Re

Jul 26 2021 // The global insurance industry is poised to recover more quickly and forcefully from the pandemic than it did after the 2008 financial crisis, despite such obstacles as low interest rates and inflation risk, insurer Swiss...

Pennsylvania Joining National Survey on Climate Risk in the Insurance Industry

Jul 23 2021 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Department (PID) is joining with other states around the country in conducting the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Climate Risk Disclosure Survey. The survey allows...

Hippo Enters Commercial Insurance Market With Homeowners Association Product

Jul 23 2021 // Home insurtech Hippo is jumping into the commercial insurance market.The California-based managing general agency startup said its expansion will focus on “targeted commercial insurance” customers. Its first...

The Insurance Industry Needs a Customer Experience Overhaul

Jul 19 2021 // If the COVID-19 pandemic taught me anything, it’s that humanity and empathy need to be the most important part of what we do in insurance. I believe that always putting the customer first will be the not-so-secret to...

In Its Quest for Diversity, Insurance Industry Finds One Size Does Not Fit All

Jul 16 2021 // In the wake of massive protests last year focused on racial equity and social justice, insurers are among the many industries confronting the need to incorporate more diversity into their hiring and business practices....

Global P/C Industry Sees Strongest Rate Hikes in 20 Years but Inflation Headwinds Loom

Jul 16 2021 // Robust global economic recovery, higher risk awareness and the strongest rate hardening for 20 years in non-life insurance commercial lines will combine to push premiums 10% above pre-COVID-19-crisis levels this year,...

Coalition Enters Canadian Excess Cyber Insurance Market

Jul 15 2021 // Coalition, the San Francisco-based cyber insurance and security company, announced it will enter the excess cyber insurance market in Canada to help protect businesses with enhanced coverage.With the coverage, Coalition...

Consilium Unveils Delegated Underwriting Authority Services for Re/Insurance Market

Jul 9 2021 // Consilium, the London-based insurance and reinsurance broker, part of the Aventum Group, has unveiled “Exponential,” a new global delegated underwriting authority (DUA) service for coverholders, which aims to...

Cyber Insurance Industry in Crosshairs of Ransomware Criminals

Jul 7 2021 // In the past few weeks, ransomware criminals claimed as trophies at least three North American insurance brokerages that offer policies to help others survive the very network-paralyzing, data-pilfering extortion attacks...

Howden’s Data Analytics Unit, HX, Launches Insurance Market Information Platform

Jul 1 2021 // HX, the data analytics and advisory division of London-based Howden Group Holdings, announced the launch of NOVA, a first of its kind insurance business intelligence platform, which enables users to better understand the...

Prince Charles Launches Partnership with Insurance Industry to Tackle Climate Change

Jun 24 2021 // His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales launched his Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI) Insurance Task Force during a visit today at Lloyd’s.The SMI Insurance Task Force, convened by Prince Charles and chaired by...

Construction Industry Hammers Away Amid Labor Woes, Rising Costs, Delays, Tough Insurance Market

Jun 21 2021 // It is not the best of times for the construction industry and its insurers. But neither is it the worst of times.The construction industry continues to face labor shortages, rising costs, supply chain woes and lingering...

Florida’s Altmaier Sees His State’s Private Flood Insurance Market Helping Others

Jun 7 2021 // Florida has 90,000 private flood insurance policies in force now– a 300% increase since passing legislation to encourage private insurers to offer the coverage in 2014, according to Florida Insurance Commissioner...

Insurers Must Totally Reassess Approach to ‘Grim’ Cyber Insurance Market: AM Best

Jun 4 2021 // With the cyber risk hazard environment—ransomware, business interruption and aggregation—worsening significantly, “prospects for the U.S. cyber insurance market are grim,” according to an AM Best...

AM Best: Florida’s Property Insurance Market Hit 5-Year Financial Low in 2020

May 27 2021 // AM Best’s composite of Florida property insurance companies hit five-year performance and surplus lows in 2020, and given persisting and significant market hurdles, companies will find sustaining current surplus...

Patra Expands Leadership Team to Advance Technology-Enabled Services for the Insurance Industry

May 27 2021 // Matt Hewitt joins the leading insurance services provider as Corporate Development Officer.EL DORADO HILLS, Calif., May 27, 2021 – Patra, a leading provider of technology-enabled services for the insurance industry,...