Insurer Investment Outsourcing Opportunities - EEA, UK, Switzerland - 2023

Rapid advances in digital technologies are significantly changing the requirements for enterprise risk management and insurance. Those same technologies are opening the door for a new generation of connected enterprise risk management and insurance solutions. Solutions that focus on increasing risk transparency and predicting, preventing, and mitigating risk across the extend enterprise and its extended value chain.

Dog attacks are a nationwide issue and pose a double tragedy to the victim and the fate of the dog. Dog bites and injury to veterinarians, staff, and pet professionals, are often considered an occupational hazard. Many of the situations that may result in a dog bite can be prevented by understanding the language and emotions of dogs. In this webinar, dog trainer and author Victoria Stilwell will talk about dog body language, behavior, and how to safely interact with dogs as part of National Dog Bite Prevention Week. She will provide information to help pet professionals and pet owners recognize and respond to situations that can result in a dog bite or injury.

Are you involved on a complex and large-scale construction project, whether from the owner or general contractor's perspective? If so, has the topic of subcontractor default insurance (SDI) been discussed? If you are involved in such a project, SDI is an important topic since SDI would generally serve as an alternative to requiring subcontractors to obtain performance bonds. SDI is a first-party insurance policy, but operates differently than the first-party insurance policies you typically think of such as a property insurance/builder's risk policy.

Recent catastrophic events coupled with local industrial losses has significantly changed the insurance industry. Insurers appetite to underwrite Food and Beverage and Manufacturing exposures in particular has reduced dramatically. This change has led to increased premiums and in some instances, businesses being classified as 'un-insurable'. Managing this change in appetite can often come down to how you differentiate your risk and resilience strategies, at renewal.