All WPVT articles
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NewsDWIC speaker preview: Crisis management lessons with WTW’s Thomson-Hall
At next month’s Dubai World Insurance Congress (DWIC) 2025 event in Dubai, speaker Pamela Thomson-Hall, CEO, international, WTW, will share insights on managing geopolitical risk crises.
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NewsPool Re launches SME market consultation to boost terrorism coverage
Great Britain’s terrorism risk re/insurance pool, backed by the Treasury, has launched a consultation focused on insuredness among small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
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NewsThreats to assets and people dominate crisis management landscape – WTW
Political repatriations, kidnap and malicious risk threats dominate the crisis management landscape, according to Willis.
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NewsAon and EBRD launch €110m Ukraine war risk facility
The broker has partnered with MS Amlin and several Ukrainian insurers, along with several governments and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, to put together the war risk scheme for Ukraine, nearly three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country.
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NewsEditor’s opinion-analysis: PV’s soft market has dodged a bullet; what will 2025 bring?
A $41m High Court case points to PV’s soft market traits despite the volatile geopolitical landscape, writes David Benyon, editor of GR.
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NewsWTW report warns of marine & offshore energy hybrid warfare targets
‘Gray zone’ attacks against ships, undersea cables, and offshore oil installations are a major risk in 2025, the broker has warned in a new political risk report.
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NewsArch names Ouwehand as new head of terrorism, political violence and war
Jelle Ouwehand promoted to lead London-based team after several years as a senior underwriter and before that as a broker at Marsh.
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NewsPool Re appoints Stark as head of underwriting
Andrew Stark starts a newly created role at the UK’s terrorism reinsurance public-private partnership.
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NewsFrom Mariupol to Gaza – measuring political violence losses with Charles Taylor Adjusting
Loss adjustment from warzones is a service in high demand, given the geopolitical state of the world in 2024, and the rising prominence of war, political violence and terrorism business among London market re/insurers.
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NewsRisk of US civil unrest highest level since BLM – Verisk Maplecroft
Verisk warned conditions are “on a par” with those just before the BLM protests and riots following the death of George Floyd in US police custody, which cost approximately $3bn in insured losses in 2020.
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NewsPolitical Risk in 2024: tensions rise as US election looms – HIVE
David Langran, class underwriter, HIVE Underwriters, highlights how the 2024 US Presidential election and rising global conflicts are intensifying political risk, requiring underwriters to navigate growing uncertainties and manage exposures with care.
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NewsWPVT Rising: Q&A with Guy Carpenter’s Powell
War, political violence and terrorism questions answered by Jonathan Powell, managing director, non-marine specialty, Guy Carpenter.
