Insurance & Reinsurance

Beazley Updates Stock Markets on Recent Performance

We noticed that Beazley issued an Interim Results update last week to global stock markets and investors. Here are some highlights from the report; Much is at stake for the insurance industry in this decisive […]

News

LV= Research Highlights Mental Health Struggles After Covid-19

Research from protection specialist LV= highlights how the physical and mental health of the general public is being affected by the coronavirus outbreak. As part of a series of surveys into the financial and emotional […]

Global insurance trends

Markets: Atradius Publishes Trade Credit Reports on China, India & More

Leading trade credit insurer Atradius has published four new reports on the markets of China, India, Indonesia and South Korea. The country reports detail the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on each market with an overview of […]

Lloyd's/London Market

PLUS Webinar Finds London Market Optimistic After Covid-19

The London chapter of PLUS (the Professional Liability Underwriting Society)  yesterday met for a  webinar to discuss the question “To what extent will this crisis lead to a permanent move away from the face to […]

InsureTech

Opinion: Kovrr CEO Highlights Potentially Huge Cyber Risk

Covid-19 has changed everything for insurance companies. There’s the fall-out over rejected Pandemic claims, processing millions of refunds for car insurance customers and then the working from home revolution, which looks set to sweep away […]

Insurance Regulation

Should The EU Look at Impact of GDPR on Insurers & Tweak the Rules?

The official EU-wide federation for reinsurance is hinting that GDPR and its implmentation may need further tweaking. Here’s the official statement, issued recently; On the second anniversary of the introduction of the EU General Data […]

Opinion

Bounce Back Loans May Not Save Small Business After Covid-19

With the Government providing backing for the Bounce Back Loan Scheme, a huge volume of small businesses will now have access to cheap money, but leading business growth speaker, Dean Seddon, warns that it will […]

News

Markel Posts a $1bn Loss in First Quarter of 2020, After Corona Impact

Markel Corporation reported first quarter results yesterday in the USA showing how quickly Coronavirus affected insurance companies, given that the pandemic didn’t really affect the USA, Europe and many other nations until mid-March. The insurance […]