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US insurtech firm Lemonade grew the business by 1,000 percent year on year in the first six months of 2018 but now wants to reduce the growth pace and address its loss ratio, which doesn’t work well, as the company’s co-founder Shai Wininger wrote in a blog. 21 June 2018
Insurance
Specialist and corporate insurer Tokio Marine Kiln (TMK) is in the process of reshaping its accident & health (A&H) department so that it aligns more effectively with the company's longer-term strategic direction. 21 June 2018
Insurance
The growing level of connectivity in the world as more and more devices join the internet of things will pose a challenge for the insurance industry, according to Wolfram Schultz, global practice group leader, liability heavy industries and manufacturing at Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty. 21 June 2018
Insurance
Data analytics provider Verisk has acquired claims management solution Provider Validus-IVC. 21 June 2018
Insurance
The world is changing at an increasingly fast pace, Mark Anquillare, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Verisk, told delegates at the opening of the Verisk Risk Symposium in London today. 21 June 2018
Insurance
Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company (UPCIC) has expanded the top of its reinsurance tower for a single Florida event by $350 million to $3.00 billion as part of Universal Insurance Holdings’ 2018-2019 reinsurance programmes, effective June 1, 2018. 31 May 2018
Insurance
The inability of the reinsurance sector to materially raise rates after 2017's major catastrophe losses shows that the traditional catastrophe reinsurance business model is "permanently" impaired, which, along with other factors, should drive sustained consolidation, according to KBW analysts. 25 May 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
Three experienced ILS executives including one of the founders of Hiscox-owned Kiskadee Investment Managers and a former managing director of RenRe-owned DaVinci Reinsurance have formed a new hedge fund-backed ILS venture, according to a May 16 Reuters report. 17 May 2018
Insurance
Credit risk insurance policies are likely to become more expensive and less readily available if regulatory changes proposed by the UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) are pursued, according to the International Underwriting Association (IUA). 16 May 2018
News
Having given up on reinsurance in recent decades, some large insurers have had a change of heart as they seek diversification and the access to the capital markets which reinsurers have developed in recent years. Is their bet that they can handle these volatile risks—and that their shareholders will back them—a risky one? Intelligent Insurer investigates. 14 May 2018
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