Property and casualty insurance

By Mike Claffey, Eoin King  |  15 May 2018

The Isle of Man regulator is consulting with industry on introducing the ORSA as a new regulatory tool for local insurance and reinsurance companies. In May 2018 Mike Claffey and Eoin King presented to the Manx Actuarial Society on the Irish experience of the ORSA under Solvency II.

By Barry Murphy, Cormac Gleeson  |  26 April 2018

Undertakings completing their second full year of Solvency II reporting are required to submit four additional reporting templates, which weren’t required for the inaugural submission.

By Marcin Krzykowski, Jarosław Lech  |  23 April 2018

Our European analysis of the non-life market covers 140 companies from 11 countries, which together comprise more than €141 billion of gross written premium (GWP) and nearly €224 billion of gross technical provisions, and our Polish analysis is based on 14 solo companies pursuing non-life business in Poland, representing circa 89% of the GWP of the Polish non-life market in 2016.

By Madeline Johnson  |  20 April 2018

Individuals who rely on their name for income may have a need for some type of reputation risk or business interruption insurance, but could such a product exist?

By Kyle Audley, Jennifer Strickland, Fred Vosvenieks  |  18 April 2018

This paper considers various future routes that the development of insurance regulation in the UK could take due to Brexit and the impact each of these might have on UK insurers.

By Simon Cureton, Peter Franken, Judith Houtepen, Kamiel van Langen, Kendall Carolissen, Moussa Ouédraogo  |  12 April 2018

This report provides a summary of the key solvency information of the main life and non-life insurance entities in the Netherlands based on the Solvency and Financial Condition Reports published in May 2017.

By Thomas A. Ryan  |  10 April 2018

Over the past several years, program business developed by managing general agents has been a rare success story in the soft property and casualty insurance market.

By Mark R. Shapland  |  20 March 2018

Using the most advanced benchmarks available can help to ensure a more efficient integration of reserve variability analysis into enterprise risk management processes and enhance an entity’s strategies.

By Rachel Soich  |  13 March 2018

What are the risks associated with uninsured subcontractors and what can be done to prevent them from threatening a company’s bottom line?

By Safder Jaffer, Asad Irshad  |  21 February 2018

The United Arab Emirates insurance market enjoyed record profitability and strong premium growth in 2017.

By Kurt Lambrechts, Moussa Ouédraogo, Dominik Sznajder, Tim Vandenabeele, Peter Franken, Kamiel van Langen  |  26 January 2018

This report is a summary of the Solvency and Financial Condition Reports for the main players in the life, non-life and health insurance business in Belgium, focussing on a subset of insurers in the Belgian market.

By Padraic O'Malley, Andrew Kay  |  25 January 2018

The loss absorbing capacity of deferred tax (LACDT) is one of the key elements of a company’s Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR).

By Henny Verheugen  |  22 January 2018

This article discusses the possible implications of each of the three approaches to transition to IFRS 17 and why insurers will need to choose their options carefully.

By Kurt Lambrechts, Moussa Ouédraogo, Kamiel van Langen, Peter Franken  |  22 January 2018

This report summarises the Solvency and Financial Condition Reports of the main players in the life and non-life insurance business in Luxembourg.

By Asad Irshad  |  15 January 2018

Asad Irshad dicusses how insurance could change with the advent of self-driving cars.

By Andrew Gilchrist, Philip Simpson, Lindsay Unwin, Christopher Clarke  |  27 December 2017

What involvement does the Financial Conduct Authority have in Part VII transfers and what are its current expectations?

By Cormac Gleeson, Ellen Matthews, Bridget MacDonnell, John Mulvihill, Eamon Comerford, David Burston, Neil Christy, Jeffrey A. Courchene, Emma Hutchinson, Jennifer Strickland, Marie-Lise Tassoni  |  20 December 2017

This briefing note summarises the final advice from the first stage of the EIOPA review and provides details on EIOPA’s proposals in the latest consultation paper on its second set of advice.

By Ellen Matthews, Sinéad Clarke  |  08 December 2017

To help prepare for Solvency II reporting throughout 2018, we have prepared a briefing note detailing Solvency II reporting deadlines in 2018 and the changes in the reporting framework relative to the previous year.

By Thomas Bulpitt, Andrew Gilchrist, Philip Simpson, Andrew Kay  |  07 December 2017

This paper focuses on the choice of calculation methodology for the Risk Adjustment that forms part of the Fulfilment Cash Flows under the General Model in IFRS 17.

By Shoaib Javed Hussain, Safder Jaffer, Asad Irshad  |  01 December 2017

The life and non-life insurance industry in Pakistan witnessed continued growth momentum in 2016.