David Walker

Articles by David Walker

  • Insurance claims from Australia's catastrophic summer pass A$2bn

    24 January 2020

    Hail losses reach half the size of bushfire losses

  • Hong Kong's PICC P&C predicts net profit jump up to 60%

    22 January 2020

    PICC P&C renews ceding arrangement with PICC Re amid positive outlook for region's reinsurers

  • Australian hailstorms cost insurers A$320m

    21 January 2020

    Insurance Council adds hail damage to nationwide fires as second concurrent catastrophe

  • German insurers slam regulatory 'stranglehold' on economy

    20 January 2020

    GDV chief economist Klaus Wiener calls for a principles-based system

  • Australia bushfire insured losses edge A$1.5bn

    20 January 2020

    General insurers promise to pass on savings from a bushfire clean-up plan

  • Beijing to abolish foreign ownership cap for US life & health insurers

    17 January 2020

    Chubb welcomes deal terms while deal document might have let slip China Re US expansion plans

  • Moody's predicts "materially" lower 2020 solvency for German life firms

    16 January 2020

    Effects of falling rates will outweigh cuts in policy bonuses, rating agency says

  • India approves 33 insurtech proposals for regulatory sandbox

    16 January 2020

    Ventures belonging to Bupa, Allianz and AIG will use the insurtechs

  • Insurtech weekly: Corvus, Zipari, Ergo, Concirrus, Neodigital, Battleface

    15 January 2020

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

  • Australia's life sector assessing climate change risks

    15 January 2020

    Concerns on bushfires and global warming not confined to general insurers