Despite pandemic risk being a regular feature within Company financials, Covid-19 took the market by surprise. The question on everyone's mind is: Is this an insurable risk?

Rob Ashton at Radius believes that the current pandemic has created new opportunities in our market. He will take us through Radius' approach to pandemic cover, what the market looks like and the type of products that suit the risk, with particular focus on the reinsurance sector. He will also share his thoughts on how as an industry we can respond to the risk and assist in the development of a market.

Rob Ashton, CEO - Radius Specialty Limited

Rob has underwritten an array of specialty classes over twenty years as an underwriter. Rob was previously the Head of Specialty at Hiscox Re, part of Lloyd’s Syndicate 33, Hiscox. Rob is a market leader in cyber excess of loss treaty and a well-respected underwriter of political violence, personal accident, financial lines and nuclear reinsurance, as well as being the driving force behind the development of a portfolio of idiosyncratic treaty business around one-off, specialised classes of reinsurance and niche structures.