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IAG expects A$169m cost from Sydney hailstorm
Insurance
Australia-based Insurance Australia Group (IAG) expects claim costs of A$169 million ($120.2 million) from the latest Sydney storms fully eroding the deductible attached to the calendar 2018 aggregate cover.   21 December 2018
Bermuda won’t let up on forging ahead with ILS
Alternative Risk Transfer
Bermuda will “keep on keepin’ on” and doing what it is doing when it comes to insurance-linked securities (ILS), says Greg Wojciechowski, chief executive officer of the Bermuda Stock Exchange. Here he looks back at 2018 and forward to 2019 as the jurisdiction continues to work hard to develop and keep its solid platform.   19 December 2018
S&P rewards AXIS for strategic changes post Novae deal
Insurance
S&P Global Ratings has rewarded strategic changes made by AXIS Capital, which include reducing its exposure to legacy liabilities generated by the Novae Group, by revising its outlook on the company’s ratings to stable from negative.   13 December 2018
Insurance
The recent wildfires in California will cause some $9 billion in insured losses, making them the deadliest and costliest wildfire catastrophes in California's history, according to California’s insurance commissioner Dave Jones.   13 December 2018
Insurance
Foreign reinsurers operating in India will now stand a better chance of winning business in the country after the Insurance Regulatory Authority of India (IRDAI) changed its rules around how domestic insurers buy reinsurance, according to media reports in India.   13 December 2018
Insurance
Re/insurers can capitalise on a growing capital efficiency gap caused by the impact of climate change if they can educate buyers and develop products able to solve some of these challenges, according to Greg Lowe, global head of resilience and sustainability at Aon, in a new report called ‘Weather volatility and chronic climate risk: a growing capital efficiency gap.’   13 December 2018
Insurance
Haven Holdings, a specialist runoff insurer based in Puerto Rico, has appointed Gordon Rowell as the chief operating officer of Time Insurance Company, a business it recently acquired from Interfinancial, a subsidiary of Assurant.   13 December 2018
Insurance
MarketScout, the electronic insurance exchange and specialty MGA headquartered in Dallas, Texas, has expanded its private client solutions team with the addition of Eduardo Crema as a production underwriter.   13 December 2018
Insurance
French reinsurer SCOR has completed a £1.2 billion longevity reinsurance deal with Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC), a specialist insurer of defined benefit pension funds.   11 December 2018
Insurance
Australia-based insurer QBE is implementing measures targeting more than A$200 million ($144 million) in gross cost savings by 2021.   11 December 2018

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