News

• 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

• Lloyd's veteran Jon Hancock takes up AIG role

  28 February 2020

  Hancock will join AIG as CEO of its international general insurance business this spring