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GIC Re retains first right to reinsurance business in India
Insurance
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) has allowed state-run General Insurance Corporation (GIC) to retain the first right to offer reinsurance in India, BloombergQuint reported citing two people present at the firm’s recent board meeting.   1 October 2018
Zurich makes $0.4bn Adira acquisition, becomes largest foreign P&C insurer in Indonesia
Insurance
Zurich Insurance Group is acquiring 80 percent of PT Asuransi Adira Dinamika (Adira Insurance), a property and casualty (P&C) insurer in Indonesia, from PT Bank Danamon Indonesia and a minority investor.   27 September 2018
Munich Re, XL, Sompo invest $20m in insurtech Slice
Insurance
US-based insurtech Slice Labs, which offers cloud-based on-demand insurance, has raised an additional $20 million in Series A funding to further expand its offering on a global scale.   27 September 2018
Insurance
US-based global insurance distributor AmWINS Group has announced the acquisition of California-based Networked Insurance Agents, an insurance aggregator specialising in the standard lines insurance segment.   2 May 2017
News
Bermuda-based Aspen has appointed Emil Issavi, president and chief underwriting officer of Aspen Re, to lead its reinsurance business, succeeding CEO Thomas Lillelund.   8 August 2018
Insurance
Commercial insurance brokers will need to have evolved into real business advisors for their small and medium-sized (SME) customers by 2027 or face extinction, warns a new report from the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII)’s Insurance Broking Faculty.   27 April 2017
Alternative Risk Transfer
While insurance-linked securities (ILS) are now estimated to be providing around 15 percent of total reinsurance capacity, SCOR CEO Denis Kessler believes that it could grow to 25 percent or a maximum of 30 percent.   6 November 2018
Insurance
The hailstorm that spread across part of Texas on June 6 - with baseball sized hail reported in Dallas, Tarrant, and Denton counties - is estimated to result in insured losses close to $1 billion, according to Karen Clark & Company (KCC).   12 June 2018
Insurance
The Hartford Financial Services Group CEO Chris Swift is seeking acquisitions in the specialty and commercial spaces while de-emphasizing share buybacks.   30 July 2018
Insurance
The recent wildfires in California will cause some $9 billion in insured losses, making them the deadliest and costliest wildfire catastrophes in California's history, according to California’s insurance commissioner Dave Jones.   13 December 2018

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