Insurance claims

Severe Storm Frequency & Asset Values Are Key to Understanding Property Risks

Extreme weather events have always happened. What’s changed is the value of human beings, and their assets, which lie in the path of storms, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and more. In the past, fewer people had […]

Opinion

Satellite Imagery Can Help Insurers Price Risk, Handle Claims Faster & More

IE mag had a chat with Dr Sakthy Selvakumaran, a Chartered Civil Engineer at  BKwai recently, to learn more about property asset values, data handling and pricing risk. One of the most useful tools for […]

News

New Integrated Disaster Alliance Attracts Insurer Support

The word from the IDF Summit, where an integrated approach to major Cat events was agreed. Here are the details; The Insurance Development Forum (IDF) and the French Development Agency Group (Agence Française de Développement […]

Global insurance trends

IDF Looks Back on a Year of International Progress

International co-operation on insurance can only be a good thing. Streamlining things like back office admin, legal exclusions, T&Cs or typical Life, Home and Car cover, can mean policy coverage is easier to understand in […]

Global insurance trends

SageSure and SureChoice Underwriters Close on Cat Bond Deal

The latest from SageSure, as a busy week gets even busier. SageSure, one of the largest managing general underwriters focused on catastrophe-exposed markets, and SureChoice Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (“SURE”), a policyholder-owned reciprocal exchange, have announced […]

News

Optalitix Partners With First Street

The latest partnership news from Optalitix; Optalitix, the specialist data analytics solutions provider, announces that it is partnering with First Street, a leading provider of physical climate risk data, to help insurers incorporate its unique […]

Global insurance trends

Swiss Re Estimates 2023 Was a Record Year For Cat Events

The latest analysis from Swiss Re suggests that there were a record number of Cat events recorded worldwide. However, like the weather trends long term, some deep analysis of the way storm/Cat events are defined, […]