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SCOR expects more specialty growth but cuts in lines turned sour
4 February 2025   Cyber and aviation took cuts at 1.1; marine treaty wobbles and merits vigilance.

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As one of the most challenging but also colourful years for the re/insurance industry in decades, 2022 made for some juicy and vivid quotes, dutifully written down by our reporters. Here are 10 of Intelligent Insurer’s favourites—we could have done 100!
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For those at Baden-Baden who had not decided so already, the protests made clear that the focus on ESG issues is not diminishing, only intensifying—and broadening.
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It’s time to be less obsessed with technical skills and widen the search for talent. That is according to a number of senior executives who debated this issue on a Re/insurance Lounge panel discussion organised by Intelligent Insurer.
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For all the devastation, the pandemic has brought opportunities when it comes to hiring and managing talent. As the crisis recedes, the industry must ensure they’re not lost, a Re/insurance Lounge panel discussed.
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Data can help meet the industry’s needs and customers’ demands, says Brona Magee of SCOR Global Life.
Reinsurance
Pandemic-related losses are large but reinsurers look to have avoided the worst with a combination of financial discipline and the arrival of a hard market. Will efforts to inoculate themselves against the pandemic in H1 continue to be effective into the second half of the year, and how will it affect the wider market? Intelligent Insurer speaks to Robert Mazzuoli, director at Fitch Ratings, to find out more.
Reinsurance
CEO Kessler says COVID-19 impact on reinsurer is ‘limited’ and points to a hardening market as ‘perfect’ conditions for SCOR to prosper.
Technology
AI offers the opportunity to boost the skills and value of underwriters as it ‘rides sidecar’ to people, providing on the job learning, says Richard Hartley, CEO of insurtech Cytora.
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12 December 2024   SCOR tripled its premium growth target while focusing on products for capital relief.
12 December 2024   Group CEO Léger says interim role revealed the type leadership needed for the business.
12 December 2024   Diversification plays are well ahead of target after 9M’24; nat cat still anathema.
25 November 2024   Rising nat cat trend means reinsurer profit isn’t feeding so fast into capacity surplus.
14 November 2024   The 3Y deal attaches at a ‘very high’ 1:100 PML, but spans full breadth of SCOR book.
14 November 2024   Flood-hit European treaty takes it on the shins with ‘double digit, even 20%’ rate gain.
14 November 2024   The reinsurer completed its L&H assumption review, resulting in a negative €0.2bn impact.
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