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29 04, 2021

Life After Gamestop: The Phenomenon, Experiences and Industry Reactions

By PLUS|2021-04-29T13:07:22-05:00April 29, 2021|@PLUS, PL Insurance|0 Comments

Lucy Macdonald moderates a discussion with Laurence Fletcher, Simon Johnston, and James Wickes on the impact of the recent Gamestop phenomenon on the hedge fund industry, professional liability insurance policies, and underwriting claims and considerations issues already arising. Listen below to the podcast, or listen on the PLUS Connect App: Lucy Macdonald, Senior Underwriter, Financial Institutions, Aviva Lucy Macdonald is a Senior Underwriter in the Financial Institutions team at Aviva plc and a member of the PLUS London committee. Lucy is a qualified solicitor and previously worked in the Financial Institutions insurance litigation team at RPC LLP, before [...]

Ransomware in 2021: Three Trends Cyber Insurers are Seeing Now

By PLUS|2021-04-28T13:36:07-05:00April 28, 2021|@PLUS, Cyber, Guest Blog, PL Insurance|0 Comments

Lauren Winchester is Vice President of Smart Breach Response for Corvus Insurance. In this role, Lauren guides policyholders of all sizes through cyber security incidents, ensuring efficient coordination of counsel, digital forensics firms, and other key incident response resources. She also manages Corvus’s risk mitigation services, such as tabletop exercises and incident response planning, that are designed to minimize the frequency and severity of data breaches. Lauren has handled over 1,000 cybersecurity incidents for organizations in healthcare, financial services, higher education, retail, professional services and more. The nation-state hack of SolarWinds, thought to be an act of espionage, has stolen [...]

Why technology is about to revolutionize the specialty commercial insurance market

By PLUS|2021-04-21T13:06:20-05:00April 21, 2021|@PLUS, Cyber, PL Insurance|0 Comments

Jonathan Sherling is the Head of Financial Institutions at Corvus Insurance. He has extensive experience working as a senior leader in professional lines, from commercial management liability to financial institution products. At Corvus, he leads the team working to broaden its portfolio of Smart Commercial Insurance products to include Smart FI Insurance. He is based in the New York City office. It’s impossible to ignore how software has changed our world in the past decade — we now use ride-hailing apps for transportation, turn to streaming services for limitless entertainment, and track our food deliveries through third-party apps. Companies [...]