News

Positive Results For Hannover Re, Weathering the Cat Storm

Hannover Re has issued some earnings guidance for the 2022 financial year; “Even before the extensive devastation caused by Hurricane ‘Ian’, 2022 was a year of above-average large loss expenditure,” said Jean-Jacques Henchoz, Chief Executive […]

Insurance claims

Germany: Claims Inflation Fuels Premium Rate Increases

E+S Rückversicherung AG, the Hannover Re subsidiary responsible for the Group’s German business, expects significant improvements in risk-adjusted prices and conditions in property and casualty reinsurance on the back of continued heavy claims expenditure and […]

Emerging Risk

US Research Into Hurricane Causation & Tracking

Aeolus Capital Management Ltd. (“Aeolus“) and the State University of New York (“SUNY”) at Albany Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences have announced the launch of a research collaboration. The hurricane-focused study, led by Dr. Pete Dailey, Head of Research at Aeolus and a renowned expert in climate catastrophe […]

Global insurance trends

WTW Launches Airport Risk Index

WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) and the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Risk Studies has unveiled a revolutionary Airport Risk Index (ARI). For the first time, the world’s airports will be able to introduce new risk profiling […]

News

Hannover Re Publishes P&C Reinsurance Outlook 2023

Some global market insights from Hannover Re; Against the backdrop of a trend towards more expensive large losses, Hannover Re expects further price increases and improved conditions in property and casualty reinsurance. The first half […]

News

Latest NCAP Car Safety Tests: Tesla, Great Wall & More

The latest vehicle safety test results from NCAP; Euro NCAP publishes its fifth round of safety ratings today. The highly anticipated Tesla Model Y did not disappoint and shoots to the top of recently published five-star […]

Opinion

Let’s Separate Claims Costs From Climate Agenda Politics

Straight up catastrophe claims fact-checking from the Editor’s keyboard; A series of winter storms in Europe, unprecedented flooding in Australia and South Africa as well as a high number of thunderstorms in the US and […]