While our primary duty as an industry and as a market is to pay our customers’ claims, unprecedented times call for a more concerted market response.
Lloyd’s COVID-19 response package
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Supporting global recovery and resilience for customers and economies
On 1 July 2020, we published a report entitled Supporting global recovery and resilience for customers and economies: the insurance response to COVID-19, together with a supplementary document, Open source frameworks for systemic risk.
The Report sets out three proposed ‘open source’ frameworks that are freely available for application around the world, two of which require government and (re)insurance industry partnerships. If implemented, these three frameworks could provide customer protection for further waves of COVID-19 and other future pandemics, as well as strengthening societal resilience against future systemic catastrophic events.
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Building simpler insurance products to better protect customers
On 12 October 2020, we published our second report in our ‘The insurance industry response to COVID-19’ series, Building simpler insurance products to better protect customers.
Insurance plays an essential role globally for society – by providing financial relief to customers during challenging times, it helps people, businesses and economies recover from unexpected disasters. For many, this worked as intended during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in some instances there has been confusion.
The recommendations set out in our second report address the urgency with which the global insurance industry must invest and focus on clarifying and simplifying its products. Doing so will mean customers have improved understanding of the cover they have in place and the most relevant protection for the risks they face. While product complexity presents a challenge for all customers, the need is particularly pressing for small to medium-size enterprise (SME) customers, who make up a substantial proportion of insurance policies sold globally but who typically have significantly less access and resource dedicated to risk management than larger corporate firms.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to devastate economies and communities, and with impacts requiring resources that can only be accessed by governments, both reports seek to present potential solutions to address the many complex challenges ahead.