November 19th, 2009
Inflation: Not All Bad News for European (Re)Insurers
Posted at 1:00 AM ET
George Carrington, Head of International Casualty Specialty Practice
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Inflation is always a major risk factor for the casualty industry. For the past seven years, monetary inflation has been low across most of Europe, and this has helped keep interest rates low. For casualty insurers, this can lead to a challenge, because the key cost-drivers of long-tail liability claims — salaries and wages, pensions and most notably medical care costs — have been growing much faster than monetary inflation.







