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Gorman exits as Axis merges NA and international property binders teams

Axis Capital’s head of North American property facilities Toby Gorman is to leave the carrier...

Insurance Insider / Article / 16 hours ago
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Market Moves Property - International

Perils gives final 2019/20 Australian bushfire loss tally of A$1.87bn

Loss aggregator Perils has finalised its loss estimate for the Australian bushfires of 2019/20 at A$1.87bn ($1.5bn)...

Insurance Insider / Article / 20 days ago
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Claims & Losses Property - International

Cresta reports five $1bn-plus cat events outside the US in 2020

Loss-index compiler Cresta said five cat events outside the US in 2020 generated insurance losses...

Insurance Insider / Article / 21 days ago
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Property - International Property - UK

German insurers pay EUR2.5bn in domestic weather-related claims in 2020

German insurers paid out for weather-related losses amounting to EUR2.5bn ($3bn) in 2020...

Insurance Insider / Article / 28 days ago
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Claims & Losses Parametrics

Lack of Covid-19 clarity clouds European 1.1 discussions

This year’s European property reinsurance renewals have so far been dominated by discussions over the treatment of Covid-19 losses, with...

Insurance Insider / Article / 3 months ago
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Claims & Losses Covid-19 (Coronavirus)

Lessons from the Great ILS Reload

Is the traditional reinsurance market running the risk of repeating some of the mistakes made in the ILS market's "Great Reload" of 2017?

Insurance Insider / Article / 4 months ago
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Alternative Capital Claims & Losses

TMHCC swoops on Axis to build delegated property team

Tokio Marine HCC has hired a team of four underwriters and claims handlers from Axis to work as part of the delegated property team...

Insurance Insider / Article / 4 months ago
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Claims & Losses Market Moves

Property rate environment ‘isn’t near where it needs to be’: Ascot’s Zaffino

Ascot Group president Jonathan Zaffino has said that some parts of the (re)insurance market still have more rate hardening ahead, as underwriters push for rate adequacy...

Insurance Insider / Article / 4 months ago
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Property - International Property - North America

Opinion: Hurricane season waiting room

It isn't just Covid-19 that has the reinsurance industry in lockdown right now...

Insurance Insider / Article / 5 months ago
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Property - International Property - North America

Depression heading towards South Korea and Japan could reach Cat 3

A tropical depression dubbed “Nine” just off the east coast of Taiwan is heading in the direction of South Korea and Japan, with an outside chance of hitting those countries as a Category 3 typhoon...

Insurance Insider / Article / 5 months ago
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Property - International Risk Modelling