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Protectionism is on the rise and could result in a global recession if current actions morph into a fully-fledged trade war, Swiss Re has warned. A longer-term decline in trade will hit marine and trade credit insurance premium growth hardest, the reinsurer noted in a report titled “Protectionism on the rise, and here to stay”. 27 September 2018
Insurance
Car insurance premium cuts are speeding up and have dropped 9.1 percent year on year to an average £766 in the UK with black box technology – so-called telematics – helping to drive the fall in prices, analysis from Consumer Intelligence shows. 27 September 2018
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Munich Re and Hannover Re have embraced low margin, low volatility growth with a low Solvency II capital cost in 2018, while peers such as SCOR steer clear due to the high S&P rating capital cost, according to Jefferies analysts. 27 September 2018
Insurance
Zurich Insurance Group is acquiring 80 percent of PT Asuransi Adira Dinamika (Adira Insurance), a property and casualty (P&C) insurer in Indonesia, from PT Bank Danamon Indonesia and a minority investor. 27 September 2018
Insurance
S&P Global Ratings has changed the outlook to stable from negative for Berkshire Hathaway's (BRK's) operating insurance subsidiaries, National Indemnity, Government Employees Insurance, General Reinsurance, and other related insurance subsidiaries due to a more robust capital base. 27 September 2018
Insurance
UK insurance intermediary Ardonagh Group is acquiring broker Swinton Group from its French parent Covéa Group for a consideration of approximately £165 million. 27 September 2018
Insurance
US-based insurtech Slice Labs, which offers cloud-based on-demand insurance, has raised an additional $20 million in Series A funding to further expand its offering on a global scale. 27 September 2018
Insurance
Broker Aon is collaborating with Pembroke Managing Agency at Lloyd’s to develop a Public Protection Policy (PPP) to support the victims of terrorist attacks. 27 September 2018
Insurance
Denis Kessler, the chief executive of SCOR, has dismissed accusations that the board’s snub of Covéa’s €8.2 billion offer to buy the reinsurer amounted to “gross management negligence” in a strongly worded letter in which he also accuses the shareholder that made the allegation of defamation. 25 September 2018
Insurance
AXIS Surplus Insurance, a subsidiary of AXIS Capital, will go to court to argue it does not have to cover the defence costs of filmmaker Harvey Weinstein in connection with pending civil and criminal litigation, which includes two rape charges, under a directors and officers policy. 25 September 2018
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