{"id":1095,"date":"2019-07-25T20:46:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/?p=1095"},"modified":"2019-07-25T20:46:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:46:58","slug":"the-future-of-insurance-is-happening-without-insurance-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/2019\/07\/25\/the-future-of-insurance-is-happening-without-insurance-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of insurance is happening without insurance firms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> The industry\u2019s plodding giants face mounting threats from restless reinsurers and Big Tech.  Since the 1980s average annual losses from natural disasters have more  than sextupled in real terms. Other risks are variations on  old themes, such as pandemics or the fallout from increasing  protectionism. And new ones have emerged. Ageing populations push up  health-care costs. Cyber-attacks can shut power plants, paralyse firms  and siphon fortunes from banks\u2019 coffers. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/finance-and-economics\/2019\/07\/20\/the-future-of-insurance-is-happening-without-insurance-firms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The Economicst (opens in a new tab)\">The Economicst<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The industry\u2019s plodding giants face mounting threats from restless reinsurers and Big Tech. Since the 1980s average annual losses from natural disasters have more than sextupled in real terms. Other risks are variations on old themes, such as pandemics or the fallout from increasing protectionism. And new ones have emerged. Ageing populations push up health-care [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1096,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1095\/revisions\/1096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefan.schleicher.at\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}