QBE’s employment lawsuit declared "plainly meritless" by Applied Underwriters’ general counsel
To this complaint, Applied Underwriters has released a statement denouncing the suit. “This lawsuit is plainly meritless and intends simply...
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Big Red Bash loses cancellation cover battle
The organiser of the annual Big Red Bash music festival in outback Queensland has lost a court battle with Lloyd’s...
IAG wins court fight over factory fire
IAG has successfully defended court action over a declined multi-million dollar claim after it argued that a massive fire at...
Twelve Capital gets strategic investment from Graubündner Kantonalbank
Twelve Capital Management, the Zurich-headquartered catastrophe bond, insurance-linked securities (ILS) and reinsurance linked investment fund manager, is taking a strategic...
Conduit Re secures retro, expects to make more purchases
Conduit Re, a Class of 2021 reinsurance start-up that raised close to $1.1 billion of capital for its launch in...
AXA's award-winning Making Claims Clear initiative is being revamped
Authored by AXAKarl Parr, Claims Technical Services Director at AXA Insurance, discusses the need for new topics such as the whiplash...
Are underwriters driving out the industry’s human touch?
King blames underwriters. “I think the underwriters are doing this, obviously to save expenses and give more return to the...
Cat bonds outperform many private ILS portfolios: Frontier Advisors
Insurance-linked securities (ILS) portfolios with predominantly catastrophe bond holdings have on average outperformed many mid- and higher-risk ILS fund strategies...
Catastrophe capacity could be short later in 2022: Eckert, Conduit Re
Neil Eckert, Chairman of Conduit Re, a reinsurance company that started-up just over a year ago, believes that there could...
Climate and cyber are opportunities for reinsurance capacity expansion: Aon
The value-proposition of risk transfer through reinsurance remains strong, according to broking giant Aon, who said recently that while reinsurance...
