A growing mismatch between risk and insurance drives ever greater protection gap

Airmic and the International Underwriting Association (IUA) have called for a fundamental rethink of how insurance is structured, arguing growing protection gaps are increasingly the result of a mismatch between modern risks and traditional insurance products.

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