CFO / Financial
Markel Pegs Best Estimate for COVID Losses at $325M
Diverging from strategies of some competitors, Markel Corp. established a big reserve for a chunk of its potential COVID-19 exposure for the entire year—putting up $325 million for direct potential ...
Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Should Not Read Coverage Into COVID IBNR: Berkley
Like other commercial insurers reporting first-quarter earnings, W.R. Berkley Corporation included a provision for COVID-19 related losses. But that doesn't mean the specialty insurer or the industry ...
Pandemic Bonds Get Stay of Execution but Their Future Remains Uncertain
A ruling last week not to wipe out holders of a World Bank financial instrument providing emergency funds to poor countries in a pandemic, was just a stay of execution if bond markets are to be ...
Top Tech Mistakes for Insurers; Fixing What’s Not Broken Leads the List
Property/casualty insurance carriers embarking on massive projects because "the system is too old" are making one of the most common technology mistakes in the industry, according to an executive of ...
COVID-19: On Disrupted Loss Reserve Diagonals and Lengthening Tails
It's axiomatic to assert that the coronavirus has changed everything both personally and professionally. Going forward, it'll be our aim at Assured Research to strike a balance. No one, of course, ...
Fitch Revises Global Re ‘Sector’ Outlook to Negative; Rating Outlook Stable
On Friday, Fitch Ratings announced a dimmer "sector outlook" for global reinsurers—changing it to negative from stable, pointing to increased concerns over COVID-19. Rating agencies like Fitch ...
AM Best Pandemic Stress Test Announced
Although AM Best believes property/casualty insurers won't be as severely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic as life and annuity players, the rating agency said yesterday that it will be ...
P/C Innovation Leaders Scarce, AM Best Finds; Reinsurers Reign
In an initial test of its new innovation assessment scores, AM Best found that only 1 percent of rated property/casualty insurers merit scores high enough to categorize them as innovation leaders, ...