Cardiovascular disease is considered to be the number one killer worldwide by the World Health Organization. On World Heart Day, Dr. James Kadouch, Medical Director for SCOR Global Life in the Americas, shares insights...
Political risk is blocking reinsurers' best efforts to push back the frontiers of reinsurability, says Denis Kessler, Chairman and CEO of SCOR in an article published in Reactions
World Alzheimer’s Day marks a longstanding partnership between the SCOR Foundation and France's Alzheimer’s Disease Foundation to seek advances in the treatment, early diagnosis and prevention of this debilitating...
The agricultural industry is faced with a plethora of risks, and some of its major loss drivers are weather-driven natural catastrophes. SCOR’s latest technical newsletter takes a look at winterkill, caused when crops...
Viral hepatitis is currently the world’s 7th deadliest human disease. To mark World Hepatitis Day on June 28, SCOR Global Life Medical Director Dr. Gabriela Buffet shares some key points about this widespread pathology.
Automated vehicles (AV) are keenly anticipated for the benefits they are expected to bring to society: greater safety, fewer traffic accident victims, improved access to mobility, and more efficient traffic flow...
In the video interview below, Thomas Sterner, Professor of Environmental Economics at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, explores the risks associated with climate change and the uncertainty surrounding their...
The SCOR Paper “Health Impacts of Air Pollution” addresses the impacts of air pollution on human health, and its consequences on the (re)insurance industry.
The growing medical issues arising from the global obesity epidemic, the serious impact on the human body, and the potential consequences on personal insurance are addressed by SCOR Life experts Dr. Christine Abalain...
Together with the Paris School of Economics (PSE), the SCOR Corporate Foundation for Science created a chair on Macroeconomic Risk that aims to promote the development and dissemination of macroeconomic risk research.