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Solventum built a global insurance program in time for its spin-off
Solventum had 90 days to stand up 22 separate insurance programs across 30 countries, with all coverage set to bind on April 1, 2024.
Risk & Insurance reports Solventum, spun off from 3M in April 2024, faced a compressed timeline to create its own insurance program as a newly public health care company.
According to Risk & Insurance, the risk team had just 90 days to build a global setup from scratch, covering every line of insurance across 30 countries, with 22 distinct programs required to bind simultaneously on April 1, 2024.
The outlet said Solventum’s health care exposure profile differed from how 3M’s industrial insurance was underwritten, and some manufacturing sites remained commingled with 3M during the transition, creating a data challenge for delineating risk at the site level.
Risk & Insurance adds that the company also had to navigate timing risk in a hard casualty market and a product liability timeline, including a property program that required coordinating a tower of 46 markets with access points in the U.S., Bermuda, London, and Europe, before all programs were bound on time at launch.