Major risks

In 2023, Swiss pri­vate in­sur­ers’ pre­mi­um vol­ume once again ex­pe­ri­enced pleas­ing growth, ac­cord­ing to pro­jec­tions by the Swiss In­sur­ance As­so­ci­a­tion SIA. 

The Swiss in­sur­ance in­dus­try saw a 2.7 per cent in­crease in pre­mi­um vol­umes for non-life busi­ness in 2021 com­pared with the pre­vi­ous year.

What virus­es are par­tic­u­lar­ly dan­ger­ous to hu­mans? In her in­ter­view, the vi­rol­o­gist Karin Moelling ex­plains why the virus that caus­es COVID-19 was able to spread so quick­ly.

There has been a marked in­crease in In­ter­net crime. Flo­ri­an Schütz, Fed­er­al Cy­ber Se­cu­ri­ty Del­e­gate, an­swers the most press­ing ques­tions.

How has the in­sur­ance in­dus­try coped with the COVID-19 cri­sis so far? Rue­di Ku­bat (Al­lianz Su­isse) and Ivo Men­zinger (Swiss Re) take stock of the sit­u­a­tion.

In this in­ter­view, Mau­rice Di­er­ick from Swiss­grid, the na­tion­al grid com­pa­ny, ex­plains why an elec­tric­i­ty short­age is one of the biggest risks fac­ing Switzer­land.

The coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic has af­fect­ed the in­di­vid­ual in­sur­ance lines to dif­fer­ent de­grees over the past year.

Why can’t a pan­dem­ic be in­sured by pri­vate in­sur­ers alone? Our lat­est ex­plana­to­ry video shows the rea­sons. 

Pop­u­la­tion growth, glob­al mo­bil­i­ty or eco­log­i­cal changes in­crease the risk of pan­demics. Is pan­dem­ic risk in­sur­able? The an­swer is, on­ly with gov­er­nance par­tic­i­pa­tion.