Insurance Analysis & Opinion
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The changing shape of environmental regulation – a challenge for multinational businesses
Environmental regulation is changing at an exponential rate. Around the world there has been a significant strengthening of regulation, consisting…
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Smart motorways: in need of improvement?
As the UK government confirms that it will undertake an urgent review of smart motorways following several tragic deaths, what…
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Interdependency of risks a key concern for insurers across Europe
Michael Rüsch, recently appointed country manager for HDI Global in Switzerland, spoke to Commercial Risk Europe about the challenges facing…
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Typhoon Hagibis – alert on potential issues
Typhoon Hagibis made landfall in eastern Honshu, Japan on 12 October, bringing heavy rainfall, flooding and mudslides in rural areas.…
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Talk, talk, talk
Communication is vital for the relationship between insured and insurer to remain sustainable, suggests Sharon van Herel, Netherlands country manager…
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Smaller firms more likely to be impacted by insurer mergers, say risk managers
Small and medium-sized (SME) companies are most likely to be impacted by the recent swathe of mergers and acquisitions among…
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Get ready for a bloody renewal…
Recent half-year results published by leading international insurers and brokers all point to a hardening commercial insurance market that appears…
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Claims, global programmes and hard market top agenda as San Millán returns as Igrea president
When Daniel San Millán took over as president of Spanish risk management association Igrea for a second time in May,…
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Cyber risk management improving in Europe
CRE spoke to James Tuplin, head of international cyber at AXA XL, about some of the trends in cyber risk…
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Pace of change causing risk management problems
The pace of change is hampering risk managers’ ability to identify, manage and mitigate their organisations’ risks, according to Francesco…
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Artificial intelligence offers big improvement in supply chain risk management
Earlier this year, Zurich Insurance announced that it had entered a strategic agreement with riskmethods GmbH, a Munich-based company that…
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Business interruption creating new challenges
The cost of replacing physical assets is being dwarfed by subsequent business interruption costs, as Florence Louppe from Risk Frontiers…
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Could the US opioid epidemic be contagious?
The US is in the middle of an opioid epidemic, causing an estimated $504bn of economic damage and resulting in…
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Lloyd’s in strong position to continue German growth despite Brexit: Blumenthal
Lloyd’s refuses to shift into defensive mode in Germany and the rest of Europe as a result of uncertainty surrounding…
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Time for technical underwriting
Hartmut Mai replaced Andreas Berger as chief regions and markets officer for central and eastern Europe, the Mediterranean and Africa…
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Will diesel emissions fuel a rise in personal injury claims?
Evidence of the harmful effects of diesel emissions is growing, resulting in it being likened to another toxic ‘timebomb’. These…
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Don’t let the bed bugs bite!
Bed bugs have been around since the dawn of time; originally, they were using bats as hosts and began feeding…
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Automation and digitalisation in shipping: a lack of standardisation and regulation?
The shipping industry has recently seen a large number of exciting and futuristic proposals for automated and digital innovations. The…
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Time to prepare for a sustained hard market
It seems that the corporate insurance market is finally turning. If they have not already done so, risk and insurance…
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Tackling the big risks
We spoke to Claire McDonald, country manager for the UK and Ireland at Risk Frontiers Europe sponsor HDI Global, about…