News – Page 62
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NewsAspen appoints Mike Duffy to UK boards as NED
Duffy was most recently Group chief underwriting officer for Canopius, where he held several board roles
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NewsOptio Re MENA commences trading
The specialty MGA is now open for business in MENA through its Dubai-based operation
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NewsHowden Tiger offers “new force” in reinsurance broking
The broker is turning its sights to ’high growth specialist areas’ including MGAs and facultative reinsurance
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NewsHesitant capital remains sidelined despite rating improvements - AM best
High levels of nat cat losses, coupled with rising inflation and geopolitical concerns, is denting appetite for property cat
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NewsWTW launches new XOL cyber facility as ‘ransomware crisis’ continues
Broker offers up to $50m of Lloyd’s excess layer capacity, as firms continue to cite cyber risk as a top priority
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News“Fingerprints of climate change” evident in 2022 nat cats
2022 is the fifth year since 2017 in which insurance losses have crossed the $100 billion threshold - Gallagher Re
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NewsMiller International launches, names Mike Papworth MD
Ron Whyte becomes head of Asia and Matthew Keeping succeeds Papworth as head of Property and Casualty
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NewsSCOR names Thierry Léger CEO as Laurent Rousseau resigns
Léger was most recently the chief underwriting officer of Swiss Re and is tasked with practising ‘strict risk management’
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NewsGlobal nat cat losses surpassed $313 billion in 2022 - Aon
$132 billion was covered by insurance, revealing a 58% ‘protection gap’; Hurricane Ian was the most costly event of the year
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NewsParametrix to pay claims after MS Azure Outage
Outage at the world’s second-ranked cloud service provider brought down multiple regions for nearly three hours
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NewsSwiss Re CorSo promotes CRO Arquint to EMEA CEO
She replaces Fred Kleiterp, who is leaving the company to become European general manager at Beazley
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NewsAon and top reinsurers launch Open Exposure Data Standard
Initial testing on reinsurance placement data for Japan, Australia and China has proved successful
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NewsCyber war endorsements could invite innovation
These include the LMA war exclusion clauses introduced in November 2021
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NewsSwiss Re’s three renewals takeaways
Capacity conundrums, late negotiations, rate increases and tighter wordings all came into play at 1 January
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NewsNewly-merged Howden Tiger launches fac division
Globally, it will be chaired by industry veteran Elliot Richardson and led in London by Gordon Craig
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NewsConsilium launches facultative reinsurance offering
Simon Richardson has been appointed managing partner of the division and joins from Besso Re
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NewsAspen Capital Markets names Chris Less COO
He joins from Hiscox Re & ILS, where he was most recently in the role of COO
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News1/1 renewals put ‘stress’ on long-term relationships
There was an evident mismatch in demand and supply for property reinsurance as global capital fell by 17 percent - Aon
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NewsGenerali GC&C names Christian Kanu CEO
He replaces Manlio Lostuzzi, who was appointed as regional officer of the Central Eastern Europe region
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NewsZoomers and Millennials to play increasing role in market plans
Putting younger professionals at the centre of the London insurance market’s modernisation is LIIBA’s focus for 2023
