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Tech Takes Insurance Back to the Roots With Peer-to-Peer Solutions

By Rodrigo Gomez |April 19, 2016|English

The concept of mutual risk sharing goes back to the dawn of insurance and is now making a comeback through products integrating digital technology. The question is whether this trend is more than a fad and whether the industry is about to undergo disruption. To...
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Nothing Normal About “The New Normal”

By Tad Montross|January 12, 2016|English | Français | Deutsch

“The new normal” is the phrase frequently used by insurance market commentators to describe the market conditions we operate in today. It’s as if we are witnessing fundamental secular or structural change in the business. In my opinion,...
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Will Annuities Become Standard Compensation for Severe Bodily Injury in Italy?

By Stefano Colombo |November 25, 2015|English

On 27 January 2015 the Court of Milan decided for the first time to award a substantial amount of compensation for a medical malpractice claim as an annuity. The ruling raised a lot of interest among insurers and lawyers because until then the standard...
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Underwriting Profit at Your Fingertips in a Competitive Market

By Stephen Brunker |November 04, 2015|English

I was recently asked by one of our customers to speak at an Underwriting Conference on the topic of Building an Underwriting Culture in Insurance. As Gen Re is an underwriting company, this topic is something that we live every day. One of the key tenets...
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My Perspective as an Insurer Turned Reinsurer - Is Reinsurance a Product or a Transaction?

By Robert Jones |October 25, 2015|English | Français

Over the last several weeks I’ve had the opportunity to attend industry conferences in Europe and the U.S. for the first time in my capacity as President and Chief Marketing Officer of Gen Re P&C. Given the upcoming January renewal, it was...
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Reinsurance Recoverables – Are They Ignored Assets?

By Joaquin Orejas |September 15, 2015|English

Reinsurance recoverables can be one of the largest assets on any insurance company's balance sheet and, like the bonds in which insurance companies typically invest, they are subject to credit risk. On the one hand, investment departments of insurance...
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