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.
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.
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Friday Reading Edition 97 (11th March 2022)
Reputation is about what others see the organisation as, instead of what it is or aspires to become. Enhancing reputational value and safeguarding it requires a concentrated effort across the life-cycle of reputation development.
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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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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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Friday Reading Edition 93 (11th February 2022)
Jen Clark, Senior Risk Engineer, and Paul Redington, Regional Major Loss Manager, discuss the rising risks associated with floods and how flooding across the UK is changing.
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Friday Reading Edition 93 (11th February 2022)
[Free to read upon sharing contact details] The data indicates that larger scale of losses could result if an event of the past were to occur today, given the accumulation of socio-economic value and other dynamics such as changing weather conditions in the intervening years.
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Friday Reading Edition 90 (21st January 2022)
[Free to read upon sharing contact details] Discover how leading insurers make data-driven decisions on cyber risk, learn from past incidents, and identify possible upcoming cybersecurity perils and vulnerabilities to allow underwriters to make informed and profitable decisions.
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Friday Reading Edition 90 (21st January 2022)
[Free to read upon sharing contact details] This report analyses the cyber security threat landscape, its important characteristics and their potential impacts on cyber insurance. It provides a nation state level cyber threat activity update and review current criminal cyber threat actor activities, and also highlight predictions for what to expect in the first six months of 2022.
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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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Friday Reading Edition 85 (3rd December 2021)
In the last instalment of this series, learn about business interruption losses during a cyber event, and how to mitigate them.
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