FERMA president urges risk professionals to challenge insurance cycle status quo and address AI paradox

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Association leader encourages event attendees to ’take risks’ and ’be open to leaving your comfort zone’

Philippe Cotell, president at FERMA, has issued two insurance-centric calls to action to the 3,000 risk professional delegates attending this year’s FERMA Forum conference in Rotterdam (5 October 2026), asking them to “challenge the status quo” of annual insurance cycles and seek to address the “artificial intelligence (AI) paradox”.

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