Our Perspective
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Get Ready for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
By Charlie Kingdollar
May 24, 2017 EnglishThe fourth industrial revolution - or Industry 4.0 as it’s also referred to - has begun, and it’s going to create enormous socio-economic change around the world. Advances in automation, artificial intelligence and robotics will bring job...
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Inland Marine Conference – Sharing Underwriting Insights
By Ben Skurek May 17, 2017 English
A team of Gen Re Property Facultative underwriters head to the Inland Marine Underwriters Association’s (IMUA) 87th Annual Meeting - held from May 21 through 24 in Braselton, Georgia - in search of new underwriting insights and opportunities to...
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Time to Re-evaluate Downtimes for Failures of Tailings Dams
By Gavin Rowatt May 09, 2017 English
Estimating business interruption losses is never straightforward. But accurately forecasting the financial consequences of a large tailings dam failure can be a real challenge, as recent events have shown. Tailings dams store waste products of mining...
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Four Drone Insurance Questions - You Should Have the Answers
By Jill Tumney March 22, 2017 English
224% - that is how much the sale of drones grew in just a three-month period in 2016. Drones are taking off among businesses and consumers in the U.S., and that presents risks and opportunities for insurers. All this popularity is generating questions,...
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Is the Sunshine State Becoming the Wildfire State?
By Rick Hartmann
March 12, 2017 English4,600. No, that is not the number of arrests during spring break in Fort Lauderdale. That is the number of wildfires Florida will now average in a given year resulting in nearly 110,000 acres of burned land.1 For many, Florida is known for its warm,...
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Home-Sharing Risks in the Age of Airbnb
By Christine Unger February 28, 2017 English
The meteoric rise of Airbnb is the most obvious sign of the growth in U.S. home-sharing. According to Pew Research, 11% of all U.S. adults have used home-sharing services and it’s estimated that there are now over half a million Airbnb listings...
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