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Aon bolsters team in southern Germany
Aon has further strengthened its position in southern Germany with the appointment of Michael Spörlein as head of sales management…
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Technical underwriting is sustainable underwriting: Haagen
Commercial Risk’s Adrian Ladbury interviews Henning Haagen, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) board member and chief regions and markets…
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Descartes leading the parametric charge in DACH region
Parametric solutions are becoming increasingly popular among risk and insurance managers as the traditional insurance market continues to pull back…
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Energy crisis questions drive to ban fossil fuel cover
The increasingly intense pressure placed on insurers and reinsurers to back away from covering fossil fuels is causing an “unacceptable”…
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German buyers question territorial exclusions in global programmes sparked by Ukraine war
German insurance buyers feel that international insurers have “overshot the mark” by introducing so-called “territorial exclusions” for Russia, Belarus and,…
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German buyers suffer more challenging market in Q2 than European peers
The German commercial insurance market stood out as particularly difficult for buyers during the second quarter, according to Aon’s latest…
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German business unhappy with latest relief package to combat inflation and energy crisis
The Federation of German Industries (BDI) has warned that there are “serious deficiencies” in the latest package of measures announced…
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GVNW members increasingly involved in EB and pensions
German risk managers are becoming increasingly involved in employee benefits and company pension schemes as the market rapidly evolves and…
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German firms face unprecedented and ‘existential’ uncertainty, finds BDI survey
A flash survey carried out among 600 medium-sized German companies by the Confederation of German industry (BDI) finds that they…
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Risk managers look to captives in stressed German market
Big interest in the opening session on captives during the first day of the GVNW Symposium, and wider conference talk…
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Container logjam in German Bight latest supply chain headache for risk managers
German risk managers gathered for the annual GVNW Symposium in Munich are focused on helping their companies cope with a…
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GVNW committee frustrated as insurance market goes into ‘exclusion mode’
The systemic risks that all GVNW members are struggling with, from pandemics to cyber and war, are proving particularly tricky…
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Systemic risks and supply chain top agenda for GVNW members
German risk and insurance managers are facing up to the same big systemic, macroeconomic and financial risks as their peers…
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German buyers back new mutuals to cope with harsh market
Leading German multinationals have called for a market-wide effort to investigate the creation of new industry mutuals to deliver long-term…
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MGA Alta Signa brings badly needed quality capacity to German market
Fast-growing specialty managing general agent (MGA) Alta Signa has launched into the German market as insurance buyers report the commercial…
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Sharma urges market to use IUA FINC clause to clear up confusion
German risk managers, and many others across the world, are becoming increasingly frustrated about a lack of consistency in the…
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Mahnke demands rethink on claims and renewal of partnership
Corporate and industrial insurers need to take a less confrontational approach to claims or risk even further long-term damage to…
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German cyber insurers post 124% combined ratio for 2021
German insurers lost money on cyber insurance for the first time in 2021 as claims outstripped still rapidly growing premiums…
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Tailor-made approach paying off for Newline Germany
As the German risk and insurance management community gathers for the GVNW’s annual Symposium in Munich, CRE’s Adrian Ladbury interviewed…