Leading Up to January 2021 Reinsurance Renewals: Guy Carpenter’s new briefing, Leading Up to January 2021 Reinsurance Renewals, highlights the myriad market developments providing the backdrop to January 1, 2021 renewals. The topics range from COVID-19-related losses and rate movements at the mid-year renewals, through tightening capacity across certain insurance classes and loss developments on long-tail lines of business.
Chart: Top 10 Largest Insured Losses vs Projections for COVID-19: The chart in the link below shows how industry loss estimates for COVID-19 put forward by a number of entities compare to other major insured events, in inflation-adjusted terms.
Recent GC Capital Ideas Video Talks On the Current Risk Landscape: GC Capital Ideas highlights recent video talks from our experts, with a focus on COVID-19 developments and climate change.
Clarity Over Coverage is Critical as COVID-19 Casts a Shadow over January Renewals: Reinsurance renewal negotiations are delicately poised, with increasing pressure on rates, economic uncertainty and disputes over COVID-19 wordings putting long-standing relationships to the test, according to a recent article in Insurance Day from Massimo Reina, CEO for Continental Europe at Guy Carpenter.
Our Work Lives Will Not Return To Normal After The Pandemic: What a double-edged sword hope can be. When the pandemic first struck, it fueled our efforts to unify and overcome a crisis of unknown proportions. But now the hope has been somewhat dashed, and this is testing even the toughest organizations, according to Keith McCambridge, Partner, Organizational Effectiveness at Guy Carpenter-affiliate Oliver Wyman.
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