{"id":58480,"date":"2026-04-30T22:58:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/58480\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:58:25","slug":"cybers-reckoning-year-zurich-joins-the-sme-race-as-rates-wobble-and-ransoms-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/58480\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber&#8217;s reckoning year: Zurich joins the SME race as rates wobble and ransoms climb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A market at an inflection point<\/p>\n<p>Specialist underwriter DUAL has warned that international cyber rates have fallen 43% since the fourth quarter of 2023, even as claim severity climbs. This slide, said DUAL, is pushing the sector toward an inflection point in 2026. S&amp;P Global Ratings has forecast premium increases of 15% to 20% in 2026 as severity catches up, while Coalition data placed the average ransom demand above US$1 million last year \u2014 a 47% jump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A market at an inflection point Specialist underwriter DUAL has warned that international cyber rates have fallen 43%&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[2004,51],"class_list":["post-58480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zurich","tag-cyber","tag-zurich"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116496138394831964","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}