Analysis

• Insurers to rethink operational resilience post Covid-19

  14 May 2020

  Insurers' operational risk management already faced scrutiny before the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, experts from Crowe and Oric International expect operational resilience to become a priority for management. Ronan McCaughey reports

  

• Retroactive BI cover needed to save US businesses, says legislator

  13 May 2020

  On the eve of a potential hearing of the retroactive business interruption bill in the New York State Assembly, the bill's architect Robert Carroll explains his rationale to Sarfraz Thind and why he is hopeful of winning the argument

  

• Market crash raises questions on matching adjustment benefit

  12 May 2020

  The question of whether the Solvency II matching adjustment (MA) provides an appropriate benefit to insurers has returned to the fore in pandemic-hit markets. Christopher Cundy reports

  

• Generali's green ILS framework: a pioneer for sustainable insurance

  08 May 2020

  Issuing green catastrophe bonds will help the Italian insurer to diversify its investor base and contribute to improving its sustainability, as Mirko Sartori explains to Peter Cripps

  

• Sport versus insurers: let the game commence

  06 May 2020

  Covid-19 has ravaged the sporting world. A blanket halt in global events threatens to cost organisers billions and insurers are being asked to pay. Both sides have strong arguments — and even stronger legal teams, as Paul Walsh and Sarfraz Thind report

  

• DAV's Frank Schiller on the Solvency II review

  04 May 2020

  Germany's actuarial association has some strong opinions on how the EU's regulation needs to be reformed - or left untouched - as board member Frank Schiller explains to David Walker

  

• Argo Group's risk system lights a way through Covid-19

  28 April 2020

  Alex Hindson, chief risk officer of Argo Group, explains how the Bermuda-headquartered insurer is addressing the operational, investment and underwriting risks caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. Interview by Ronan McCaughey

  

• The key decisions in Samsung Life's journey to IFRS 17 implementation

  24 April 2020

  Samsung Life's Jeong Hyeok Park and Deloitte Korea's Byoung Shin tell Cintia Cheong how the insurer is implementing the new accounting regime and what they make of the recent amendments to the standard

  

• Whisper it quietly... many UK motor insurers are offering Covid-19 refunds

  22 April 2020

  US motor insurers have caught the headlines with multi-million-dollar rebates to customers. Their UK counterparts seem to be in the slow lane, but under the bonnet they are taking action, as Ronan McCaughey explains

  

• Covid-19 reveals the cracks in the US insurance system

  20 April 2020

  US insurers have been getting a beating in their response to the Covid-19 crisis. Their latest move to rebate auto premiums shows the fissures in their approach and the lack of a cohesive regulatory response. Sarfraz Thind reports