Insurance protection gaps in healthcare and cyber feature distinctive challenges

Insurance can help address concerns about the sustainability of publicly-funded healthcare systems, as well as the unpredictability of cyber risk, says Kai-Uwe Schanz, Special Advisor at The Geneva Association.

Watch the previous interview, Root causes of insurance protection gaps lie with both demand- and supply-side factors.

Root causes of insurance protection gaps lie with both demand- and supply-side factors

On the demand side, factors include affordability and trust; and on the supply side, transaction costs and limits to insurability hold back insurance supply, say Kai-Uwe Schanz, Special Advisor at The Geneva Association.

Watch the second interview, Insurance protection gaps in healthcare and cyber feature distinctive challenges.

Cyber Insurance as a Risk Mitigation Strategy

Cyber insurance is the fastest growing line of business in the insurance industry. A combined assault of daily front-page news items about cyberattacks, increasing government regulation, and insurance industry awareness is raising the profile of cyber risk. As more regulations are adopted, the corporate sector is looking to insurance to offer solutions that can effectively deal with this emerging risk.

 

Insurance Protection Gaps in Cyber and Healthcare more acute than in Natural Catastrophes

The insurance protection gaps in healthcare and cyber risks are not sufficiently researched even though their respective protection shortfalls are more dramatic than for natural catastrophe risk, according to the study Understanding and addressing global insurance protection gaps released today by The Geneva Association.

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Understanding and Addressing Global Insurance Protection Gaps

This report offers an updated quantification of insurance protection gaps in the areas of natural catastrophe, cyber, healthcare and pension risk. The paper discusses root causes and potential remedies, taking into account commonalities and differences across various lines of business and country income groups.

 

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