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Constructs in Industry Loss Cat Bonds

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Catastrophe bonds using industry-loss triggers have become increasingly popular among ILS investors and cedant sponsors. Industry loss catastrophe bonds pose less adverse selection risk from the point of view of...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

AI’s Impact on Property Insurance Coverage

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, such as computer systems for assistance in quickly answering complicated questions, researching a specific topic, or creating an...more

J.S. Held

Severe Convective Storms and Associated Insurance Weather Risks

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Severe convective storms (SCSs) occur during all seasons in the United States. According to Aon, severe convective storms have accounted for 70% of global insurance losses in recent years, and there continues to be a rise in...more

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Weather Hazards & Insurance Claims Considerations Across the US

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Introduction: Exploring Hazardous Weather Patterns Across the US - Every day, somewhere in the United States, some sort of hazardous weather is occurring. The vastness of the nation—from the Arctic Ocean coastline to the...more

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Federal Insurance Office announces plans for “first of its kind” climate data call on homeowners’ insurance

On November 1, 2023 the Department of the Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office (FIO) formally submitted a request to proceed with a climate-related financial risk data collection for homeowners’ multi-peril underwriting data...more

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RWI Market Turning to Unlikely Industries for New Deals: Health Care RWI Terms & Conditions Improving

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Representations and Warranties Insurance (RWI) has increasingly become a tool employed by both Buyers and Sellers to shift away from the traditional indemnification model of escrows or other mechanisms that could tie up...more

Hudson Cook, LLP

Equality in Credit Decisions - Does "Sex" include Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity?

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In June of this year, the United States Supreme Court held that an employer who fires an employee for being gay or transgender violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ("Title VII"). Title VII prohibits employers from refusing...more

Carlton Fields

UK’s FCA Weighs in on Insurers’ Use of Big Data

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On September 21, the United Kingdom's financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), released a "Feedback Statement" after completing a review of insurance industry responses to its November 2015 "Call for...more

Locke Lord LLP

OCC Releases Semiannual Risk Perspectives Report

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On December 16, 2015, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released its Semiannual Risk Perspectives report for the fall of 2015. The OCC’s Semiannual Risk Perspective report “addresses key issues facing banks,...more

Goodwin

Insurance Risks of Bitcoin: Lloyd’s Take

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On June 12, global insurance giant Lloyd’s of London released a report titled Bitcoin: Risk Factors for Insurance. Lloyd’s knows a thing or two about risk—it has been underwriting for more than 300 years and has insured...more

Nossaman LLP

Post claims Underwriting– Can Insurers Increase the Self Insured Retention Based on a Claim?

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Insurers have generally two departments: underwriting and claims. Underwriters negotiate the terms of the offer of insurance and include, in their internal analysis, how much risk the insurer wants to accept and at what...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

OCC Report Highlights Wide Range of Potential Risks

Why it matters - The OCC’s most recent report on current key risks should be read by all banks, regardless of size or regulator, as a road map in preparing for the next examination. Few banks would ever admit they may...more

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