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  • Axa halves 2019 dividend as Covid-19 claims mount

    03 June 2020

    Board reveals €1.2bn of non-life claims costs

  • Axa BI court case in France could set Covid-19 precedent

    27 May 2020

    The insurer last week lost a case from a restaurant owner over losses from the pandemic

  • Guiding Axa through Covid-19

    25 May 2020

    Axa's group chief risk officer Renaud Guidée discusses pandemic insurance pools and Covid-19 business interruption cover with Ronan McCaughey - and argues no other industry has gone so far as insurance to help customers during the crisis

  • UK insurance industry to raise £100m to fight Covid-19

    18 May 2020

    Supporters include Lloyd's of London and Aviva

  • Covid-19 does 8x more damage to Axa than pandemic mortality alone

    15 May 2020

    Sensitivity analysis in SFCR reveals modelled moves in year-end Solvency II coverage

  • Axa predicts around €500m Covid-19 claims from event cancellations

    06 May 2020

    Full-year earnings to feel "material impact" from pandemic

  • France progresses plan for pandemic insurance pool

    05 May 2020

    Funding options are being explored and it could follow the model of France's public reinsurer CCR

  • Irish motor insurers pledge Covid-19 premium relief

    27 April 2020

    The support measures reflect an expected lower volume of claims during the Covid-19 pandemic

  • Insurtech weekly: Axa Asia; John Hancock; Allianz Care; Helvetia;

    24 April 2020

    InsuranceERM rounds up the latest developments in the fast-moving insurtech sector

  • 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