Middle East conflict-driven energy disruption could test insurers’ resilience across the region, though insurers hold sufficient capital to absorb near-term stresses.
Iran's offer of conditional passage may ease the bottleneck in a limited sense for the 3,200 stranded vessels, but ships linked to the US, Israel, and countries deemed hostile to Tehran will remain bl...
Charter flights into the Gulf continue to attract high war risk premiums, some even doubling the total cost, as commercial aviation gradually recovers across the region.
4.97bn rupee (approx. US$53.5m) scheme sees India joins a growing list of governments mobilising state-backed insurance support in response to conflict.
India's long-delayed plans for a domestic P&I club have gained fresh urgency as the Strait of Hormuz blockade disrupts the country's energy cargo flows.
Fitch has identified correlated aggregation risk as the key near-term concern for specialty insurers, even as the agency maintains a broadly contained ratings outlook.
