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Just Around the Corner: Insurance Challenges in the Next 10 Years

The Just Around the Corner: Insurance Challenges in the Next 10 Years seminar took place on Thursday, May 18, 2017. This seminar explored some of the challenging mega-trends (environmental, social, economic and technological) impacting the insurance industry and provided strategies the industry can develop to prepare for the future.

  1. Floods, Fires and Droughts - Insurance in the Era of Climate Change | Dominic T. Clarke
  2. Social Engineering, Ransomware and Bitcoin:Challenges for Commercial Crime Insurers in the 2020s | Chris McKibbin
  3. Claims Arising Out Of Privacy and Technology Issues | David R. Mackenzie
  4. Automobile Insurance: “The Times They are a Changin’” | Stephen R. Moore

Floods, Fires and Droughts - Insurance in the Era of Climate Change

Dominic T. Clarke

Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and more severe. Climate change will produce novel claims involving unprecedented issues. What are the risks facing insureds, and how will insurers react?

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Social Engineering, Ransomware and Bitcoin: Challenges for Commercial Crime Insurers in the 2020s

Chris McKibbin

This presentation looks ahead to new issues that commercial crime insurers will face in the 2020s – or a lot sooner. After a recap of the evolving jurisprudence on social engineering fraud (including the recent Apache and Taylor & Lieberman decisions), we will turn to emerging challenges, such as Ransomware and the treatment of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and how crime insurers might address them.

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Claims Arising Out Of Privacy and Technology Issues

David R. Mackenzie

This presentation will explore coverage for technology and emerging privacy intrusions under cyber, e&o and general liability coverage forms. Developments in regulations and case-law on a number of important cyber and tech coverage issues will be discussed as well as predictions on issues that will soon be facing insurers and their claims handlers.

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Automobile Insurance: “The Times They are a Changin’ ”

Stephen R. Moore

Between nanny features on current cars, the growth of ride sharing and Zip Car, together with the potential for self-driving cars and trucks, automobile insurance is about to undergo tectonic shifts over the next decade.

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