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Rising extreme weather risk places property insurance in uncomfortable position

September 6, 2017September 4, 2017 Nordstrom

extreme weather risks trend insurance industry

An increase in severe storms, flooding, wind, wildfires and other disasters are driving claims skyward. Flooding and wildfires are making massive headlines this summer and this extreme weather risk is placing considerable pressure on the property insurance industry. These types of disaster are spiking the number and cost of business and homeowners insurance claims. In fact, the extreme weather risk may have a greater economic toll on the insurance industry than any other industry in the world. Though insurers have been increasingly aware of the threat of climate change with…

Strange insurance claims rise as a result of fur, feathers and creepy-crawlies

April 4, 2017March 30, 2017 Julie Campbell

bedbug animal related strange insurance claims

Everything from peacocks to bedbugs are leading to a rise in filings with insurers in the United States. Strange insurance claims resulting from animal-related incidents are on the rise in the United States. Everything from aggressive peacocks to hotel room bedbugs are sending people to their insurers for reimbursement of their losses. This insurance data was published by Allianz SE in a report based on a recent study it conducted. Strange insurance claims in the United States involving bedbugs rose by 50 percent from 2014 to 2015, according to Allianz…

Cyber insurance policies carried by a falling number of companies

October 7, 2016October 5, 2016 Marc

PricewaterhouseCoopers has recorded a sharp drop in the number of firms with coverage in the last year. According to a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers survey, the number of companies in Great Britain with cyber insurance policies has plummeted. Firms have rapidly dropped the expensive coverage even as they boost their security budgets by as much as twice over. This has occurred at the same time that an array of high profile businesses experienced cyber attacks and data breaches. PwC explained that firms hesitate to invest in cyber insurance because the coverage appears…

Commercial auto insurance is continuing its slumping trend

May 5, 2016May 4, 2016 G. Turner

According to Fitch Ratings, this sector has been a “chronically underperforming product segment.” Fitch Ratings has revealed that the commercial auto insurance market as a whole had not only experienced an underwriting loss last year, but also that this was the fifth year in a row in which that happened. Fitch also said that the P&C market was in its third consecutive year of considerable underwriting profits. The American commercial auto insurance market has become a “chronically underperforming product segment” for insurers, said Fitch. These underwriting losses have even been…

Liability insurance coverage needs spike with popularity of drones

March 24, 2016March 23, 2016 H. Cutner

liability Insurance industry policy for drones

As businesses start to find a use for these unmanned flying devices, insurers are selling more policies. Commercial uses for drones are practically limitless and as businesses start to come up with reasons to use these flying devices, insurers are getting calls to make sure the appropriate liability insurance coverage is in place to cover the various perils that could be associated with them. Particularly the case in the United States for the last year, but other countries like Canada are s seeing similar trends. According to the Insurance Bureau…