Political Risk Map 2020 - Mid-Year Update for Asia-Pacific: As the region hit first by COVID-19, many countries in Asia-Pacific experienced a sharp rise in economic risk early in the year. Almost two-thirds (64 percent) of the countries rated by Guy Carpenter-affiliate Marsh JLT Specialty’s World Risk Review (WRR) experienced an increase in their country economic risk rating of ... Continue Reading »
Week in Review
Week’s Top Stories: September 5 – 11, 2020
Chart - Significant Insured Catastrophe Losses 2011 – 1H2020: The following chart shows significant insured catastrophe losses between 2011 and the first half of 2020. View the chart >> Building Climate-Resilient Infrastructure in the Post-Pandemic World: With the global economy facing its deepest economic contraction since the second world war, many governments are ... Continue Reading »
Week’s Top Stories: August 29 – September 4, 2020
Chart - Dedicated Reinsurance Sector Capital 2012 – 1H2020: The following chart shows that total dedicated reinsurance capital was resilient at the end of the first half of 2020, recording a marginal increase of 1 percent overall from year-end 2019. View the chart >> Podcast - Telehealth and Predictions on Medicine’s Future Following COVID-19: Telehealth’s spike in r ... Continue Reading »
Week’s Top Stories: August 22 – 28, 2020
Mid-Year 2020 Reinsurance Renewal – Capital: A preliminary estimate calculated by Guy Carpenter and A.M. Best indicates that total dedicated reinsurance capital was resilient at the end of the first half of 2020, recording a marginal increase of 1 percent overall from year-end 2019. Recovering financial markets and asset valuations during the second quarter of 2020 have helped s ... Continue Reading »
Week’s Top Stories: August 15 – 21, 2020
Analysis of Potential Medical Claims Related to COVID-19: Examples of the types of direct insurance claims associated with COVID-19 include testing, doctor and emergency room visits, hospital admissions, stays in intensive care units and end of life care. Insurance costs in the United States associated with an inpatient hospital stay for pneumonia (a common complication from ... Continue Reading »
Week’s Top Stories: August 8 – 14, 2020
Silent Cyber – No Longer Silent: Silent (or non-affirmative) cyber refers to cyber-related exposure within many all-risk general insurance products. If no explicit cyber exclusion applies, coverage for losses caused by cyber perils may apply. This underlying exposure’s potential for aggregated loss is currently one of the major issues being considered by the (re)insurance ind ... Continue Reading »
Week’s Top Stories: August 1 – 7, 2020
Silent Cyber – No Longer Silent: Silent (or non-affirmative) cyber refers to cyber-related exposure within many all-risk general insurance products. If no explicit cyber exclusion applies, coverage for losses caused by cyber perils may apply. This underlying exposure’s potential for aggregated loss is currently one of the major issues being considered by the (re)insurance ind ... Continue Reading »
Week’s Top Stories: July 25 – 31, 2020
Silent Cyber – No Longer Silent: Silent (or non-affirmative) cyber refers to cyber-related exposure within many all-risk general insurance products. If no explicit cyber exclusion applies, coverage for losses caused by cyber perils may apply. This underlying exposure’s potential for aggregated loss is currently one of the major issues being considered by the (re)insurance ind ... Continue Reading »
Week’s Top Stories: July 18 – 24, 2020
Webinar - Cyber Risk in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Marsh & McLennan hosted a recent webinar where cyber experts from affiliates Guy Carpenter, Oliver Wyman and Marsh discussed the impacts of COVID-19 on the cyber threat landscape. The webinar, hosted by Siobhan O’Brien, Head of Guy Carpenter’s International Cyber Center of Excellence, delves into how to manage through the imm ... Continue Reading »
Week’s Top Stories: July 11 – 17, 2020
Reinsurance Resilience and Value - Protecting our Planet and the Public Purse: The global reinsurance market has been fundamental to the management and mitigation of risk for over 150 years. Guy Carpenter’s Protecting our Planet and the Public Purse report examines how the reinsurance market’s innate ability and desire to innovate and evolve through different market cycles and p ... Continue Reading »
