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UMAs changing risk carriers

Climate change demands revised thinking

Climate change is altering weather patterns and causing an increase in the intensity and frequency of adverse weather conditions. With this, insurers are required to reflect on their risk appetite and models and determine how to underwrite the additional risks that climate change brings to the covers they provide.

Shifting gears by shifting risk

Risk is our business. As insurers and reinsurers, it is our ability to measure it, manage it, absorb it and transfer it that makes our business valuable to society, and to our shareholders.

All hands on deck

We are all generally aware of the raft of legislative and regulatory changes coming at the insurance industry.