As part of its efforts to share best practice with its clients, Saudi Re has organized a training workshop titled “Commercial Property Underwriting”   The event, held in Riyadh on Jun 19^th & 20^th 2012, 

was attended by an audience of insurance professionals representing 20 companies in the Saudi insurance industry. The training workshop focused on the technical aspects of property underwriting covering the different types of construction and their characteristics, common occupancy hazards, fire protection systems, fire and natural catastrophe exposures, and evaluating the risk of burglary and theft.

Mr. Fahad Al-Hesni, MD-CEO of Saudi Re, commented “Property insurance approximately generates premiums of SAR 1 billion representing 6% of the overall insurance market in Saudi Arabia. Thus, Saudi Re conducts these training programs to strengthen the technical knowledge of property line of business which has a great growth potential especially in the light of the economic and infrastructure developments we are experiencing in the Kingdom.” He also added “this workshop comes as part of a series of training events covering a spectrum of topics which Saudi Re hosts for its clients of insurance companies across different markets”.