Aviation insurance enters the age of black swans

Aviation insurance has become a game of black swans and wildcards with fewer visible ties to longer-standing hard-set rules internal to the product line, a survey of aviation underwriters by the International Union of Aerospace Insurers (IUAI) together with the International Underwriting Association (IUA) and Swiss Re has shown.

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