How Specialized Insurance and Risk Management Can Help Your Bottom Line

whitePaper | February 24, 2020

Commercial property insurance providers find themselves operating in unpredictable conditions, with political and economic uncertainty having negative impacts on business activity in almost every industry. The retail sector is under particular pressure, but there are also significant problems in the o-ice buildings market, as businesses postpone expansion or investment plans, and some consider relocating facilities outside the UK once (or if) the Brexit process is completed.

whitePaper | April 21, 2022

Progress in the areas of robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) continues to define a new era of automation in finance. In the last decade, one such focus area for many financial organisations has been automating and modernising key back-office processes like reconciliations. Yet the insurance industry has lagged behind in this regard, relying on outdated reconciliation procedures far longer than any other financial sector. The result is that many firms today struggle with critical issues like differing data formats, manual processes and IT dependencies.

whitePaper | July 1, 2022

As a form of cyber extortion, ransomware is malicious software that gains access to files or systems and blocks user access until the victim pays a ransom in exchange for a decryption key. It has become a serious issue as the number of attempted intrusions and successful attacks as well as the size of ransom demands have trended sharply higher in recent years. Cybercriminals are also deploying sophisticated approaches to extort their victims, including threats to release sensitive information or take down a firm’s website if the ransom is not paid. The development of the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) business model has supercharged this field of cybercrime and enabled threat actors, even with limited technical IT skills, to launch highly disruptive attacks.

whitePaper | December 6, 2022

Wildfire risk is complicated – and not just in terms of predicting, preparing for, and mitigating damage. Wildfires play a complex role in overall climate risk that insurers need to understand and to develop new strategies to address as the impacts of climate change continue to evolve.

whitePaper | January 10, 2020

The annual EY Insurance Outlooks represent a perspective on key issues shaping the industry in the near term (three years). They complement the NextWave series, which takes a longer-term perspective (five years and beyond) and examines specific market scenarios that will shape the future of the industry.

whitePaper | November 30, 2022

In June 2022, nearly two dozen people were charged with defrauding various life insurance carriers – to the tune of more than $25 million. Those involved conspired to apply for numerous bogus life insurance policies, then collect on them by intentionally deceiving carriers with the assumed identities of deceased individuals.