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Potential Implications of COVID-19 for the Insurance Sector
How the Coronavirus Outbreak May Impact Insurers Operationally and Economically: COVID-19 is impacting the insurance industry in multiple ways—from employee and business continuity issues to client service considerations to the financial outlook. Here are some key issues insurers face and potential action steps they could take.
S & P P/C Least Impacted
S&P Global Market Intelligence found that property and casualty insurance is the least impacted from the COVID-19 health situation, based on market signals. S&P Global Market Intelligence conducted this analysis for the month of March generating industry medians from its Credit Analytics Probability of Default (PD) Market Signal model which uses stock price and assets […]
Olympics Delay, Not Cancellation, Provides Reprieve for Insurers
Delaying the Olympics is likely to cost insurers much less than canceling the Tokyo Games altogether, with a chance that some of those involved may not have policies specifically covering a postponement, industry sources say. The Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday were postponed to 2021, the first such delay in the modern Games’ 124-year history, as the coronavirus crisis forced […]
Avalanche of Legislation Passed in Response to COVID 19
I wrote my last column in the shadow of the coronavirus shutting down wide swaths of the northeast and California and Washington State doing the same. Since then, nearly all of the country has followed suit. Hundreds of thousands have now been diagnosed with COVID 19 in the United States and tens of thousands have […]