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The silent enemy

Efforts to affirm or exclude cyber from non-specialist products are creating challenges for underwriters and brokers, writes Laura Board...

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Casualty Cyber

Opinion: What does history tell us about rising ransomware claims?

There’s a thesis I’ve been testing on any cyber underwriter who will listen...

Insurance Insider / Article / 1 month ago
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Claims & Losses Cyber

Opinion: What does history tell us about rising malware claims?

As with K&R risks in the 1960s it has taken time for this type of loss to become quantifiable...

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Claims & Losses Cyber

Alternative capital ‘getting more comfortable’ with cyber: Markel exec

Alternative capital investors are developing a more sophisticated understanding of cyber and becoming more comfortable with the class of risk, according to a Markel executive...

Insurance Insider / Article / 1 month ago
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Alternative Capital Cyber

Axa XL fills new role of global cyber CUO

Axa XL has hired Elizabeth Benet into the newly created role of global CUO for cyber...

Insurance Insider / Article / 2 months ago
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Cyber Market Moves

Nephila cyber links part of ‘InsurTech laboratory’

Nephila Capital's role in the reinsurance line-up for cyber insurance start-up Cowbell was a result of the firm's affiliation with InsurTech Boost, rather than a signal of changing underwriting appetite...

Insurance Insider / Article / 2 months ago
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Alternative Capital Cyber

Capital One burns through first $100mn of cyber tower

The claims total from the Capital One data breach has already reached $100mn – a quarter of the firm’s $400mn of cyber limit, The Insurance Insider understands...

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Claims & Losses Cyber

Lloyd’s stands its ground on silent cyber plan

Lloyd’s has made a minor concession over its silent cyber edict to address concerns that third-party lines in particular lack the wordings to affirm or exclude the peril. However, the Corporation...

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Cyber Risk Management

Insider In Full: London specialty rate gains at 1.1 trigger 2020 optimism

London market specialty insurance rates modestly accelerated at 1 January, with most senior underwriting executives expecting further momentum in the mid-year renewals...