insurance markets

• Emerging Markets Stoking Insurance Growth: Munich Re

  By Jonathan Gould, Reuters  |  May 16, 2013

  Emerging markets will see the highest growth in premiums for insurance companies this year and next, while Europe lags, according to the world's biggest reinsurer, Munich Re.

• 2013 RAVE Award Winner: Innovation Group

  By Staff Writer  |  May 8, 2013

  Product: Insurer Claims

• 2013: A Transformative Year in the Regulatory Revolution

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  April 25, 2013

  Insurers are facing revolutionary changes in the regulatory environment--changes that are causing some U.S. insurers to reevaluate business strategies and structure, says KPMG.

• 2013 Forecast

  January 14, 2013

  With the New Year upon us, PC360-NU spoke with top brokerages, carrier executives, agency associations and Main Street agents in local markets to discover where the greatest challenges and opportunities for producers lie in 2013.

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  2013 Forecast: Top Trends, Challenges & Opportunities for Agents & Brokers

  By PC360 Staff  |  January 2, 2013

  With the New Year upon us, PC360-NU spoke with top brokerages, carrier executives, agency associations and Main Street agents in local markets to discover where the greatest challenges and opportunities lie in 2013.

• Uncertainty Rules Risk Management Outlook for 2013

  December 13, 2012

  We asked risk managers and their brokers about what they expect will be the biggest challenges in 2013—and how they are preparing to respond to them.

• Greenberg: Tread Carefully in Emerging Markets

  By Warren S. Hersch  |  December 6, 2012

  Emerging market countries represent huge, untapped opportunities for insurers. But carriers that are not properly staffed with people who understand the cultures, histories and markets of these nations will not succeed in their efforts to expand.

• New Global Insurer Association Seeks to Present Unified Industry Voice on International Matters

  By Elizabeth Festa, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  October 9, 2012

  The Global Federation of Insurance Associations, a group of 31 associations representing 87 percent of the insurance business globally and much of the U.S. industry, formally established itself as an association and held its first meeting today in Washington at the headquarters of the American Council of Life Insurers.

• Money Up

  By Paul Morrissette  |  October 1, 2012

  High net worth individuals confront greater risks than average income earners

• When Risk Gets Personal: Protecting Your Directors & Officers Across Borders

  By Suresh Krishnan  |  September 10, 2012

  Understanding the personal exposures of directors and officers presents a particular challenge for multinational companies. After all, the extent of these individuals’ duties, the range of potential lawsuits and the regulatory landscape vary widely from country to country.

• Reinsurers in Good Shape, but Need Added Focus on Underwriting

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 4, 2012

  Despite high catastrophes last year, reinsurers began 2012 in solid shape, but the companies benefited from factors that might not be present going forward, and the industry will need renewed focus on underwriting, ratings agencies say.

• Industry Groups, Observers to FIO: Leave Private Reinsurers Alone

  By Arthur D. Postal, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  September 3, 2012

  The Federal Insurance Office (FIO) is being told the government should support the private reinsurance market and think long and hard before creating any government backstop that would alter the current system.

• Ebix Acquires Reinsurance Trading Hub TriSystems

  By Staff Writer  |  August 16, 2012

  Ebix, a supplier of on-demand software and e-commerce services to the insurance industry, announces that it has acquired London-based TriSystems Ltd., an online insurance trading hub that facilitates commercial insurance and reinsurance transactions between London intermediaries and insurance companies. The TriSystems products and services will now become a part of...

• IAIS Head Urges Regulators to Think Internationally, and Beyond Insurance

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  August 13, 2012

  Globalization has reached the insurance industry, making it increasingly important for regulators from around the world to communicate with one another to preserve markets and protect consumers, says the chairman of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors.

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  The Telematics Defense: Achieving Winning Outcomes with Usage-Based-Insurance

  By Jim Weiss  |  July 26, 2012

  By taking a little poetic license with an old adage from the world of competitive sports—that often the best offense is a good defense —we can also find a lesson that applies to auto insurance. For example, telematics has recently given insurers the ability to analyze policyholders’ driving habits, including...

• Telematics: The Latest Conversation Starter Among Insurers

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  July 19, 2012

  There is a conversation being held around telematics at almost every level of the insurance industry these days. One place where the conversation began over two years ago is at Zurich, where Jim Noble, line of business director, motor fleet, for the risk engineering group of Zurich Services Corporation, has...