Knowledge articles

In this article, three challenges faced by the insurance market in regards to modern methods of construction are discussed. Consideration is then given to how these might be mitigated.

As the world pivots from fossil-fuelled internal combustion engines (ICEs) to electrically powered vehicles (EVs), global capacity for battery production is set to grow exponentially in the next few years. This article examines where and how EV batteries are made, and why this fast-evolving production process could have profound implications for insurers.

Torben Bell provides his summary of the Mining Insurance Risk Association (MIRA) conference in Vancouver, Canada back in November 2023. In this article he covers some of the major challenges facing the mining industry now and into the future.

Following MDD’s Energy Insights Event in January 2024, Integra CEO, Leo Dixon, caught up with Conrad Biegel and Brad Ebel from MDD to delve a little deeper into their presentation on the day and discuss what lies ahead for the mining sector

Refinery losses with time element exposure tend to the most challenging property claims. They require knowledge of process engineering, refinery configuration, the licensed technologies employed and the economics of the markets served. Against this backdrop, Ewan Cresswell set out to find a simplified approach to these refinery losses and address some pertinent underwriting concerns. In […]

Integra’s loss adjusters are the custodians of significant amounts of data relating to an insured’s assets, their main contracts, their insurance policies and the claims that emanate from their assets. Following a number of complex losses to hit the downstream energy insurance market over the last few years and at the request of leading European […]

In the USA, the Clean Air Act (CAA) establishes a number of permitting programmes designed to enforce the goals of the act. Some of these programmes are directly implemented by the Environmental Protection Agency through its regional offices, but most are carried out by individual states and local agencies. The CAA requires facilities that are […]

There is no silver bullet to reverse the growth in carbon emissions. Instead, we rely on a raft of technologies to deliver more sustainable energy sources and suppress the release of greenhouse gases. Only then can we realise the pledges of the Paris Climate Accords and the net-zero commitments of individual organisations. Other than its […]

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 started a bloody conflict which continues today and shows no sign of a peaceful resolution. But, whilst the Ukraine war marks a historic milestone as Europe’s most serious hostility since WW2, it has also created an unprecedented shockwave across the insurance world. The conflict presents a new challenge […]