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Policy Claims for Dog Bites – E-News
This E -News G/L Umbrella highlights recent dog bite cases that address exposure and coverage issues and provides takeaways about this type of claim for Homeowners as well as Personal Umbrella insurers. |
January 2010 |
Drywall Update: New Defendants Add to Insurance Exposures – E-News
This E-News GL/Umbrella highlights the one emerging feature of the "Chinese Drywall" problem - the widening scope of defendants caught in the litigation. Defendants have included drywall installers, general contractors, and drywall manufacturers and suppliers. However, lawsuits continue to name entities that are not necessarily considered drywall litigation targets and we highlight some of them. |
January 2010 |
Medicare Recipients Litigation, E-News Multiline – E-News
This E-News Multiline discusses a Federal government lawsuit grabbing the attention of Liability and Workers' Compensation insurers who make bodily injury payment to Medicare recipients. We summarize the important litigation and provide links to additional information on the topic. |
January 2010 |
Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Liability - Updated Law Survey for Fourth Quarter 2009 – E-News
The updated Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Liability—Updated Law Survey for Fourth Quarter 2009 is now available. This electronic survey contains the latest laws, regulations and cases that affect key UM/UIM topics. |
January 2010 |
Gen Re LifeHealth Opens Branch Office in Tokyo
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January 2010 |
GR–NEAM Expands its Global Insurance Asset Management Presence
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January 2010 |
Amending ALM: An Enterprise Solution for Insurer Risk Management – General ReView
The underlying requirement of Enterprise capital return and risk management is a culture of governance, accountability and risk awareness. The tools we use are intended to support these prerequisites, not replace them. We view models as tools whether they are deterministic, Mean/Variance or stochastic, and therefore, intellectual curiosity and caution must be exercised. |
January 2010
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History – Reflections
Placing today’s financial market valuations in historical perspective makes clear that there are few or no bargains around. Interest rates are unsustainably low, and equities have recovered to fair value. From such levels it appears that unfortunately the best returns over the typical horizons of one to five years are likely to come from manic market behavior rather than patience. |
January 2010 |
Topics Nr. 17
This year's edition of our annual compendium of insurance topics is now available online. The editorial focus centres on the financial crisis and its consequences for the insurance industry. Other topics of interest in this edition are: The Increasing Value of Basic Risk Selection Principles, Insuring Long-Term Care Risks, States and Municipalities Going Green, Future Liabilities from New Energy Technologies. |
December 2009 |
Personal Privacy Issues Drive Commercial Exposures – Casualty Matters
This edition highlights emerging claims and law involving privacy and habitational risks. As usual, we also discuss developments on a variety of liability topics including Privacy, Internet and Security Breaches; Sexual Misconduct; Public Nuisance; Dramshop; Hotels; Contractors/Drywall; and Auto. |
December 2009 |
Two Difficult People Do Not Make a Good Marriage – Reflections
Regulation of the banking system is about to change, but the central problem is rooted in banking as a business, and in the nature of regulatory behavior. In the long run, the outcome of the current reregulation will only be to modify the shape of future financial crises. |
December 2009 |
JHA's 2010 Dynamics Seminar Registration Now Open
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December 2009 |
Using Risk Management(RM)Services to Sell EPLI – E-News
This flyer provides the "EPLI Value Math" to help small businesses assess the benefits of EPLI coverage. The flyer offers some price points for the Website and Hotline and highlight the deliverables of each service. |
December 2009 |
Investment Profiles: 2008 P&C/Life Holdings – GeneralReView
Despite the tumult of the 2008 capital markets, most insurers' investments were not so severely impacted. The greatest sources of losses were equity holdings, a large portion due to affiliated company valuations. Fixed income write-downs, in particular as a percent of assets, were quite small. Of greater interest is mortality and annuity companies' fixed income durations continue to trail those of non-life companies. |
December 2009
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Dynamic Reinsurance Analysis (DRA) - Selecting an Excess of Loss Reinsurance Retention – Gen Re Viewpoint
Insurers are often faced with a dilemma when selecting their reinsurance retention. This article addresses the retention decisions for non-catastrophe coverage. |
December 2009
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