Click here for the Friday Reading Search, a searchable archive of reading and knowledge resources

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.

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McKinsey & Co, 17th December 2020
Friday Reading Edition 67 (16th July 2021)
Given the profound uncertainties and their varying impact across business lines, insurers must commit strongly to risk-oriented, structured decision-making approaches. It is time for chief risk officers (CROs) to step up to this challenge. With their help, the industry can reinvent itself to stay relevant to customers and attractive to investors.
Airmic, 7th July 2021
[For Airmic members only] Panellists from the International Underwriting Association of London’s (IUA) Non-Marine Environmental Committee (NMEC) discuss key themes appearing in the recently published Practical Buyer’s Guide to Environmental Risk, such as environmental harm and torts, the limitations of environmental coverages provided in other types of non-Environmental Impairment Liability (EIL) insurance policies and environmental loss scenarios that illustrate the role of EIL policies in responding to a broad range of environmental incidents.
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Verisk, 22nd June 2021
On a new framework for climate risk modeling, rooted in high quality data and deep domain knowledge of weather and climate physics, and which will allow us to answer not only today’s new climate questions, but also tomorrow’s.
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International Underwriting Association of London (IUA), 15th June 2021
The Guide in question, as discussed during the Airmic LIVE session.
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Travelers
This white paper outlines a range of practical ways that UK companies can prepare for natural disasters abroad, prevent their operations being affected, where possible, mitigate the impact when a disaster occurs, and restore their business to full operational capacity.
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AXA XL, 20th April 2021
As travel opens up, how are businesses protecting employees, and how are individual travellers staying safe?
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Chartered Insurance Institute (CII)
Friday Reading Edition 64 (25th June 2021)
In 2020, the CII was accepted as a member of the Commonwealth family when we became a Commonwealth accredited organisation. To celebrate this development, A Commonwealth Insured focuses on the vital ways in which the insurance and personal finance professions support the Commonwealth’s priorities.
Herbert Smith Freehills, 19th March 2021
In Rockcliffe Hall Limited v Travelers Insurance Company Ltd [2021], Travelers succeeded in obtaining strike out/summary judgment against a policyholder’s Covid-19 business interruption claim because Covid-19 was not specifically included in the policy’s ‘closed list’ of specified diseases.
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Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies,Lloyd’s of London,Nanyang Technological University
This 2019 report explores a scenario in which companies’ devices are infected with malware that threatens to destroy or block access to files unless a ransom is paid.
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Airmic, 12th April 2021
Friday Reading Edition 54 (16th April 2021)
[For Airmic members only] Biodiversity is intertwined with natural catastrophe risk as degraded coastal habitats offer lower protection against extreme events like storm surges, which will only become more intense and frequent with climate change. The Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) is the world’s leading risk screening tool for biodiversity. This session discusses the use of the tool in the context of insurance to help manage risk, identify opportunities and encourage good practice. [Webinar recording]
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