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  • Direct Line hit with £1m coronavirus bill

    03 March 2020

    UK insurer says February storms absorb more than half of annual weather allowance

  • South Korean life insurers join coronavirus fightback

    03 March 2020

    Samsung, MetLife and Shinhan aid efforts against the virus

  • Moody's talks up markets' impact of coronavirus on insurers

    02 March 2020

    Volatility in financial markets more of worry than claims

  • UK mortality rates fall to lowest level 'ever seen'

    02 March 2020

    Life expectancies in 2019 for 65-year-olds were around one month higher than the year before

  • Solvency rules minimise insurance company failures

    02 March 2020

    Fewer insolvencies have taken place since rules were introduced in 2004

  • Catastrophes demolish Hiscox profit, while coronavirus claims take off

    02 March 2020

    Hurricane Dorian and typhoons Hagibis and Faxai took their toll on the Bermudian insurer

  • Coronavirus action plan activated at key German insurer

    02 March 2020

    But trade body says virus still exerting limited influence on country's industry as a whole

  • Munich Re applies Solvency II volatility adjustment to Ergo business

    28 February 2020

    Comparability with peers cited as reason

  • WTW hints at IFRS 17 effective date, based on February decisions

    28 February 2020

    Willis Towers Watson says redeliberations have resulted in minor changes to the accounting standard

  • Insurtech weekly: Carrot Insurance; Neptune Flood; Milliman; Collective Benefits

    28 February 2020

    InsuranceERM rounds up the latest developments in the fast-moving world of insurtech