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Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.

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Lockton, 3rd March 2022
Knowledge of how war exclusions have been interpreted in the past can be useful in evaluating the applicability of the exclusion under the current circumstances around the Ukraine crisis.
Insurance Times, 1st March 2022
Friday Reading Edition 96 (4th March 2022)
Lloyd’s of London could be facing a “sizeable” loss from its $2bn share of the political risk insurance market during the ongoing Russian and Ukraine war. Exposure to eastern Europe is likely to be ‘modest’ but classes such as energy could take a beating.
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WTW, 24th February 2022
Friday Reading Edition 98 (18th March 2022)
Most, if not all, cyber insurance policies contain a war exclusion of some description. Given the current situation, it is natural that organizations will want to understand how their cyber policy will likely respond in the event of a loss caused by a cyberattack alleged to have been deployed by or on behalf of the Russian state.
Marsh, 10th February 2022
Friday Reading Edition 99 (25th March 2022)
On February 7, 2022, Delaware Governor John Carney signed into law a groundbreaking bill that opens up new directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance options for companies. Senate Bill 203, which passed the legislature unanimously on January 27, 2022, clarifies how companies can use captives for Side A D&O coverage.
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AXA XL, 1st February 2022
Friday Reading Edition 99 (25th March 2022)
Challenging conditions in the traditional insurance marketplace, notably for cyber coverages, have prompted many buyers to seek to increase the amount of risk they retain with their captives. This article explains how a structured solution can help buyers of cyber coverage to take higher retentions and manage risk volatility within their captives.
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Balkerne, 1st February 2022
Friday Reading Edition 94 (18th February 2022)
On weather modelling, the fundamental importance of data assimilation and quality control, the methodology of multi-model forecasting and achieving the most possible from computing resource. Balkerne speaks to James Burn, Meteorologist with the IBM Weather Company, on the growing importance of weather forecast and observation data to the property insurance industry.
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Marsh, 8th January 2022
Friday Reading Edition 125 (7th October 2022)
As UK companies grow in their understanding of ESG and strategically approach risk mitigation, insight into how insurers perceive ESG risk is essential. To provide some initial information on this, Marsh undertook a survey of 30 insurers representing a significant cross section of the UK insurance market.
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Howden, 4th January 2022
Friday Reading Edition 88 (7th January 2022)
Shifting views of risk replace capacity as the pre-eminent driver of renewals. The mix of heightened secondary catastrophe perils, rising core inflation, temporarily subdued social inflation and a dislocated cyber market have reset the risk landscape, adding a large dose of complexity to an already complicated underwriting environment.
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Marsh, 18th November 2021
There is no doubt the next decade is “the critical decade” for climate action, with the COP26 summit in Glasgow last November seen as the turning point. The summit allowed countries to establish a common ground, and collectively find ways to overcome barriers to achieve climate objectives.
Airmic,AIR Worldwide, 11th November 2021
Friday Reading Edition 82 (12th November 2021)
Scientists at AIR Worldwide explain how acute physical risk from climate change is being measured in the insurance industry. They describe how catastrophe models are being built to account for climate change that has already occurred and are being adapted to quantify the future impact of climate change under a range of scenarios.
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