Company: AHL
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form Type: 424B4
Source: 0001628280-25-023859
Chunk: 45

Company: ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LTD
Filing Date: 2025-05-08
Form: 424B4
Chunk 45
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 major topics that encompass a wide range of issues, including climate change and other environmental risks, and the potential negative impacts of climate change have led and will continue to lead to new regulatory responses. We are subject to complex and changing laws, regulations and increasingly divided or polarizing public policy debates relating to climate change, including differences, and increasingly, potential conflicts in policy perspective across the jurisdictions within which we operate, which are difficult to predict and quantify and may have an adverse impact on our business. Changes in regulations relating to climate change (including the slowing, stopping, changing or reversal of such regulations) or our own leadership decisions implemented as a result of assessing the impact of climate change (or associated regulatory obligations) on our business may result in an increase in the cost of doing business or a decrease in premiums. For further information, see “—Strategic Risks—Increasing scrutiny and evolving expectations from investors, customers, regulators, policymakers and other stakeholders regarding environmental, social and governance matters may adversely affect our reputation or otherwise adversely impact our business and results of operations . ”

The effects of emerging claim and coverage issues in our business and social inflation are uncertain.

As industry practices and legislative, regulatory, judicial, socio-economic, financial, technological and other environmental conditions change, unexpected and unintended issues related to claims liabilities and coverage may emerge. These issues may adversely affect our business by either extending coverage beyond our underwriting intent or by increasing the frequency and severity of claims. Moreover, legislative, regulatory, judicial or social influences may impose new obligations on insurers or reinsurers in connection with climate change that extend coverage beyond the intended contractual obligations, or result in an increase in the frequency or severity of claims beyond expected levels, as described in “—Global climate change, as well as increasing laws, regulation and litigation in the area of climate change, may have an adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition or liquidity.”

In addition, increasing fraud and abuses at the primary claims level, as well as social inflation, including increased litigation, expanded theories of liability and rising settlement amounts and jury awards, have affected our reserving practices and loss exposures, and these trends may continue. In some instances, these changes may not become apparent until after we have issued insurance or reinsurance contracts that are affected by the changes. We regularly review the impact of these trends on loss reserves for notified claims to ensure our reserved position aligns to the latest information. In addition, actual losses may vary materially from the current estimate of losses based on a number of factors, as described elsewhere in these risk