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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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The ILS Markets and Traditional Reinsurance

By Andrew Flitcroft|August 19, 2015|English

I recently sat on an industry panel that explored how the Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS) markets differ from, and influence, the traditional reinsurance market, and I thought I would share the summary of my discussion. Starting with the impact on...
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Fac to the Future

By Mike Downes|June 15, 2015|English

The Flux Capacitor - It represents the epitome of creativity, problem solving and “out of the box” thinking. Admittedly, facultative reinsurance may not be the equivalent of Doc Brown's time travel, but in an underwriting world increasingly...
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