Axa

Ursula Wyman joined the business on 15 November, and reports to Jon Walker, CEO of Axa Commercial.

The UN’s Butch Bucani, speaking on Swiss Re’s COP26 panel, warned that the transition was not just about “putting a thermometer in your insurance portfolio and saying ‘it’s 1.5 degrees’”.

The carrier will stop underwriting and investing in new upstream oil greenfield exploration projects, unless certain conditions are met.

The carrier has said it will strengthen insurance requirements for businesses involved in deforestation.

The inability to strike a deal sends both buyer and seller back to square one.

The French mutual’s attempt to enter reinsurance via an acquisition has been thwarted again, according to French publication L’Argus de l’assurance.

Axa UK has appointed David Ovenden from Willis Towers Watson as CUO for its commercial business, a role where he will be tasked to deliver pricing and underwriting programmes and oversee a continual development of underwriting capabilities.

Nine (re)insurance firms in London took part in the programme for career-break women, organised by diversity and inclusion firm Inclusivity and supported by the Insurance Families Network.

The carrier has finished the sale of its 50% shareholding in Axa Gulf and 34% shareholding in Axa Cooperative Insurance Company.

Insurers have now shelled out just over £968mn to BI policyholders in interim and final settlements.

The company said the divestment was part of its simplification strategy.

The Financial Conduct Authority’s latest release on UK claims data for Covid-related BI losses shows an acceleration of acceptances during June.