Emerging Risk

US Wildfires Up by Around One Third on 2017, Says RMS

Wildfire damage in the US State of California is up sharply compared to last year, creating a major problem for insurers, says Risk Management Solutions. In news reports, CNN has called the Carr Fire the sixth […]

Fraud

Sedgwick Make Key Staff Appointments

Sedgwick, a leading global provider of technology-enabled risk, benefits and integrated business solutions, is pleased to announce several key leadership appointments in its engineering, fire investigation, environmental health and safety and specialty services consulting division, EFI Global. Aime […]

Insurance Brokers

BPL Global Creates Excess of Loss Team, Eyes Trade Credit Niche

BPL Global, the leading credit and political risk insurance (CPRI) broker, has created a team dedicated to excess of loss (XOL) trade credit insurance with a specific focus on the trade finance sector. XOL traditionally […]

Flood Insurance

Flood Risk News: Auger Academy Sees Engineers Graduate

Specialist for the insurance industry Auger has seen a fresh group of 12 staff graduate through its industry-leading academy. The company has launched its own Auger Academy aimed at supporting and developing both the company’s […]

Insurance claims

Gallaghers Survey Highlights Company Cyber/Crisis Attack Risk

Half of large UK businesses have been impacted by a major crisis event in the last 12 months. This is one of the key findings from a report – Combatting crisis complacency: large businesses’ approach to […]

HR & Employment

Health Study Finds 51% of Diabetes Patients Suffer Mental Health Issues

An independent study of people living with type 1 and 2 diabetes, by Censuswide, commissioned by Ieso Digital Health, the UK’s leading provider of online therapy highlights the scale of mental health problems affecting those […]

Global insurance trends

Willis Towers Completes First Blockchain Deal on Marine Insurance

Willis Towers Watson is at the forefront of blockchain technology delivering on the first blockchain transaction for marine insurance along with partners, EY, A.P. Møller-Maersk, Willis Towers Watson, XL Catlin, MS Amlin, ACORD and Microsoft. This is […]

Conference report

BIBA Feedback: Talking Risk Score, Hackathon and NASA with James Burton

After all the excitement of BIBA last month, Insurance-Edge thought it would be the right time to catch up with James Burton, Director of Product Management at LexisNexis. The insurance software specialist company were heavily involved […]