E&S/Specialty

Less than 1% of any piece of arts life is spent in transit, but transit-related losses account for 18% of all art insurance claims.

The last issue of the year provides a great opportunity to look back at some of the highlights (and lowlights) of the year. Among the major lowlights were the hacks at the Office of Personnel Management and Anthem Insurance; the flooding that decimated much of North and South Carolina; and...

To assess risk management strategies among its members, RIMS conducted its first cyber survey, asking about insurance investments, exposures, cyber security ownership and government involvement, as well as identification methods and response procedures.

As natural catastrophes proved once again to be few and the Property & Casualty industry continued to be viewed as an attractive investment for alternative-capital sources looking to place their bets, carriers looking to get rate in a market made increasingly competitiveand softhad different ideas about how to achieve growth.

As more and more high-profile cyber attacks are identified, businesses are increasing their investment in cyber insurance to help mitigate their risk exposure in the event their data is hacked.

Claim severity is up in D&O; so why is pricing so competitive?