Natural catastrophes (Nat Cats)
Insurers Forecast of 2026
Insurers are heading into 2026 well-capitalised, technologically accelerated and increasingly data-driven but softening markets, geopolitical volatility and emerging risks are set to test their resilience in the year ahead.
Swiss Re CEO urges ‘prevention over cure’ for climate risk
Swiss Re group CEO Andreas Berger has called for an industry-wide shift in the approach to climate risk.
Lloyd’s urges ‘laser focus’ on COR as Tiernan teases strategy refresh
Lloyd’s executives have urged market participants to ensure combined ratios do not creep up, so that it can continue to absorb the impact of major loss events such as this year’s California wildfires.
Reinsurance outlook ranges from ‘stable’ to ‘deteriorating’
Rating agencies have shared their outlook for the global reinsurance sector, with both Fitch Ratings and Moody’s Ratings revising down their outlooks for 2026, while S&P Global Ratings has maintained its ‘stable’ outlook.
Throwback Thursday: Lloyd’s looks to Tower Hamlets; Budget blow
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to May 1990 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history: Lloyd’s was looking to Tower Hamlets and the sector was horrified by one of the worst ever years for natural catastrophe…
Closing Europe’s natural catastrophe protection gap
Trade Voice: Typhaine Beaupérin, CEO of the Federation of European Risk Management Associations, appraises recent proposals for a continent-wide scheme to boost the provision of natural catastrophe cover.
21 businesses vie for a place in latest cohort for Lloyd’s Lab
The Lloyd’s Lab held a pitch day for its 14th cohort earlier this week, with 21 businesses vying for a spot in the 10-week accelerator programme.
Price of motor and flood reinsurance falls for UK insurers
Ample reinsurance capacity meant UK insurers buying reinsurance cover during the busy 1 January renewal period enjoyed price reductions in some cases, according to a Gallagher Re report.
Big Interview: Paul Brand, Convex
Paul Brand, group CEO of Convex, sits down with Harry Curtis to discuss the insurer and reinsurer’s plans to hit and surpass $5bn GWP, the difficulties of technology adoption, and why he thinks current market conditions are “brittle”.
ICEYE insurance head reveals plans for nat cat solutions
Stephen Lathrope, global head of insurance at space technology company ICEYE, has outlined the company’s plan to provide solutions targeted at a range of natural catastrophe perils.
Over half of risk managers think key risks are set to become uninsurable
More than half of risks managers believe that some of the key business activities and locations are set to become uninsurable, a survey by the Federation of European Risk Management Associations has found.
Hurricane Milton insured losses to run into the tens of billions
The insurance industry is likely to suffer losses of tens of billions of dollars from damage inflicted by Hurricane Milton last week, according to early estimates.
Lloyd’s to ramp up business oversight to avoid past ‘mistakes’
Lloyd’s will increase its oversight of delegated and legacy business to avoid squandering the gains of recent remediation efforts, chief underwriting officer Rachel Turk has said.
Reinsurers told they cannot ‘run from risk’
Reinsurers have been urged by Aon to “lean into risk” to protect the relevance of the broader insurance industry.
Allianz’s Côté on the insurer of the future
View from the Top: Nadia Côté, UK managing director of Allianz Commercial, outlines how changing customer needs, new technology and emerging risks will shape insurers over the next decade.
Q&A: Daniel Grimwood-Bird, McKenzie Intelligence Services
Daniel Grimwood-Bird, head of sales and marketing at McKenzie Intelligence Services, shares how the provider of geospatial data and analytics plans to insurance industry plans to make it big in the UK and US.
Q&A: Mona Barnes, Aon
Tom Luckham sits down with Aon’s chief claims officer Mona Barnes to discuss her new role, her career history and her plans for claims at Aon.
Lloyd’s to up cyber and nat cat scrutiny as market grows
Lloyd’s has laid out its approach to managing cyber and natural catastrophe risk, as the market presses on with plans to grow and build on the profits it made in 2023.
Beazley CEO hails ‘standout year’ for property underwriting
Beazley CEO Adrian Cox has labelled property risks as one of the insurer’s “biggest long-term opportunities”, saying that underwriting conditions increasingly favour the specialty market.
Concern over workplace and political risks rises in the UK ahead of global trends
UK risk professionals are more likely to see the shortage of skilled workers, political risks and risks associated with new technologies as pressing concerns than their global peers, according to the Allianz Risk Barometer.
60 Seconds With... Woodgate & Clark’s Glyn Brookes-Humphrey
Glyn Brookes-Humphrey, director of regional operations at Woodgate & Clark, reveals he would love to be a hunchback lawyer in Tudor times and why he doesn’t take anything or anyone for granted.