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Insurers at Lloyd’s could benefit from the rapid growth of the legal cannabis industry in the US and Canada, a legal expert has claimed. 20 October 2019
Insurance
One of the top priorities of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA) over the next 12 months will be working with state regulators to ensure the bilateral covered agreement on insurance and reinsurance between the EU and the US, signed in 2017, is implemented by all states before the five-year deadline is reached. 20 October 2019
Alternative Risk Transfer
After several years of heavy losses and other unexpected challenges such as loss creep and trapped capital, insurance-linked securities (ILS) investors are much more cautious going into the year-end renewals, with many readjusting their portfolios and attempts being made by some to solve the problem of trapped capital. 20 October 2019
Alternative Risk Transfer
Loss creep remains a big issue for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) market, with some investors grappling with developments around the impact of 2017’s Hurricane Irma, which inflicted $77 billion in economic losses in the Northern Caribbean, Puerto Rico and Florida. 20 October 2019
Insurance
Concern in the US casualty market that pricing hikes are not enough to cover some of the increases in loss costs is causing an element of fear in the market and could mean further upward pressure on rates. 20 October 2019
Alternative Risk Transfer
US carriers hit by losses in recent years could be looking at rate increases of between 15 and 25 percent and all carriers will probably have to absorb rate increases of between 3 and 5 percent, David Carson, head underwriter at Pioneer Cat, a London-based managing general agent, told APCIA Today. 20 October 2019
Insurance
The reinsurance industry must do more to prepare the industry for a future with more frequent and severe weather events, particularly around water-related disasters, Daniel Vestergren, Hiscox Re’s chair of international business, told APCIA Today. 20 October 2019
Insurance
US mortgage business Freddie Mac wants more reinsurers to embrace its credit risk transfer programme
Freddie Mac, the US-government sponsored enterprise (GSE) that provides liquidity to the US mortgage markets by buying mortgages from lenders, anticipates that its credit risk transfer (CRT) programme will continue to grow steadily—and 2020 could be one of its biggest years yet. 20 October 2019
Insurance
Guy Carpenter a global risk and reinsurance specialist and a business of Marsh & McLennan Companies, has appointed Dominic Samengo-Turner to the role of Global facultative leader. 18 October 2019
Insurance
Everyone is talking about insurtech, but apart from its being a useful portmanteau term, does the reality live up to the hype that surrounds it? Intelligent Insurer asks those in the know. 18 October 2019
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