The Perfect Storm – how capacity is disappearing fast from the UK insurance market

Back by popular demand, we welcome all members & guests to attend a lunch time webinar, via Zoom, which will be presented by Mr Alan Chandler who has recently delivered the very well received BI and Covid-19 webinar and coverage issues caused by Covid-19 webinar.

Overview

This presentation entitled The Perfect Storm, will be exploring why capacity is draining out of the UK insurance market and why we are moving into a very hard market where niche covers will be difficult to place.

John Neal CEO Lloyd’s of London has estimated Covid-19 will cost the insurance industry $203 billion nearly twice that of Katrina, making it by far the worst incident ever in the history of insurance, no wonder Oliver Bate CEO of Global giant Allianz has used the expression ‘the virus has hit insurers like a meteorite’.

It is difficult to imagine a worse start to a year for the UK insurance market than 2020, and the problem is that the market was already in all sorts of trouble coming into 2020!!

The presentation will be delivered by Alan Chandler who is one of the most popular presenters in the UK insurance market.

Alan will explore how Solvency II, the recent stock market crash, the Ogden change, soft rating, recent floods and now Bi and Covid-19 have all combined to create the perfect storm and how rates will have to significantly increase with many high risk businesses facing the prospect of getting no alternative quotes.

The webinar will allow for Q&A's at the end.

Learning Objectives

By the end of the session, participants will be able to understand:

• How Solvency II has taken capacity from the insurance market;
• How the recent stock market crash will make capacity issues worse;
• How insurers have struggled because of the Ogden rate change and soft rates;
• How insurers have probably had the worst start to a year from an underwritng perspective ever and what this will mean for rates and coverage;
• How the market will change following Covid-19 and how some risks may struggle to get any cover.

About the speaker:

Alan has undertaken operational management roles in three major global companies - NatWest Insurance Services, RBS Insurance Group and Allianz Insurance. He has run underwriting, broking and claims functions. Eleven years ago he set up his own training company, something that he had always longed to do as he is passionate about training. Since then he has trained well over a thousand people to become ACII qualified including six individuals who have achieved the best ACII completion in the whole of the United Kingdom, he has also trained many national prize winners. Alan has delivered training for almost all the institutes in the UK over the past few years with his enthusiastic presenting style proving very popular. He is one of the few individuals who can teach at all levels of the CII examinations, he teaches almost all certificate, diploma and advanced diploma subjects and is one of the few people who can take someone from certificate all the way through to fully qualified ACII and his pass rates exceed 96%. Alan has presented across Europe on many technical subjects to companies including Allianz, Zurich, Aon, Marsh and Willis. He has been involved in the setting up of many diploma and advanced diploma programmes in both the UK and Ireland and is driven by a passion to see increased professionalism within the insurance industry.

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