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UK Supreme Court dismisses insurers’ appeals
Around 370,000 policyholders are set to benefit from the judgment in BI test case ruling
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Amrae welcomes captive incentives
Corporates must have the resilience to bear exceptional shocks, via ‘self-insurance’ or risk transfer to insurers, said Amrae
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COVID-19: a ‘Black Swan’ for supply chains
How do companies tackle supply chain disruption during the pandemic, and what steps can be taken now to build in more resilience for 2021?
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Restoring mangroves to build coastal resilience
Globally, mangroves reduce flood damages by $65 billion every year; insurance solutions are critical to post-storm restoration
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DAY 3: COVID-19 has given risk managers an opportunity to shine
Risk managers are more visible to boards than ever, so they must take this opportunity to sell the importance of loss prevention, risk management and resilience
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DAY 1: D&O: Navigating the ‘perfect storm’
Speaking during an on-demand webinar during Day One of Airmic Fest, experts from Lockton and Chubb discussed the rapidly hardening directors & officers (D&O) insurance market and the challenges this presents insurance buyers
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DAY 1: Six new initiatives from Airmic
Kicking off Airmic Fest, this year’s virtual conference, the risk management association announced several new initiatives and pieces of research for its membership.
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COVID crisis sparks captive growth
Captive formation grew by 200% in the first half of 2020, including captives to cover pandemic-related losses - Marsh
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Navigating the harsh market
A “harsh” insurance market means risk managers need to adapt fast to conditions most have never seen before
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Fighting cancel culture
Before you can manage and mitigate risks to your brand and reputation, you first need to be able to measure it
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Hard market to prompt captive growth
Firming commercial insurance prices and impacts from COVID-19 could present opportunities for the captive insurance segment - AM Best
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Parametric products can assist climate resilience - CCRI
Today’s “wealth of data” can be used to construct risk transfer products for extreme weather - Nephila’s Barney Schauble
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Risk managers enjoying increased board attention - Airmic
Covid-19 is an opportunity for risk professionals to demonstrate the strategic value of their work
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Don’t damage trust, Airmic warns insurers
Insurers can “either interpret ambiguous contract wordings with their balance sheet in mind, or they can act as partners to long-standing customers”
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Risk managers are turning alternative risk transfer due to dissatisfaction with insurers and brokers
Risk and insurance managers in the UK and Germany say there has been a fundamental shift in pricing and the scope and availability of cover, and have revealed widespread dissatisfaction with the handling of the changing conditions by insurers and brokers.
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How the insurance model is coping with lasting negative rates and protectionist sanctions
Ahead of his speech at the Amrae conference, Strategic Risk spoke to Hervé Houdard, managing director at Siaci Saint-Honore to find out how the insurance market is transforming to deal with rising protectionism and persistently low interest rates and – critically – what the changes mean for risk managers
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Businesses must step up and start investing in risk prevention - or face economic shocks, says Amrae president
Brigitte Bouquot warns Amrae delegates that businesses have to invest in potential risks in order to retaliate against economic shocks
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No risk is an island – so we must communicate better
Risk management is changing, which means that those who work in the profession need to change too. Strategic Risk caught up with Anders Esbjörnsson, Group Risk Manager, Construction company NCC to find out why he thinks communication is critical and how an MBA helped transform his approach to risk
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Day two Amrae highlights: What the risk managers are saying
Today several risk workshops are taking place throughout the day. We spoke to the moderators of the panels to find out what will be covered and some of the key takeaways for risk managers. Here’s our selection of the best:
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Vue d’expert : Perspectives et enjeux des risques à l’aube d’une nouvelle décennie
Face à un marché des grands risques qui se durcit, technologie et innovation peuvent aider les entreprises à être plus résilientes dans un monde interconnecté et en perpétuel changement. Julien Guénot, Directeur pour la France d’AXA XL