Insurers can export risk management skills to governments: Catlin

Insurers can export their risk management skills to global
governments to help manage natural disasters, XL Catlin executive
deputy chairman Stephen Catlin said at the inaugural meeting of the
Insurance Development Forum (IDF) in Washington DC last week.
The forum is a partnership involving representatives of the UN,
the World Bank Group and the insurance industry.
The aim of the forum is to integrate insurance industry risk
expertise into governmental disaster management programmes and to
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