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Advantage: Reinsurance Buyers; 10% Prop-Cat Re Price Drops Possible
While the U.S. Open Tennis tournament was entering its final days in North America, reinsurance brokers preparing their trips to Monte Carlo predicted a common outcome in the 1/1/2026 match between ...
7 Years of Double-Digit Growth; New Players on Top 25 E&S Insurers List
2024 marked the 7th straight year of double-digit growth for the U.S. excess and surplus lines market, but the top 25 players no longer command 70 percent of the pie, according to a new report. AM ...
How Fast Will the Reinsurance Market Soften?
A softer reinsurance market will prevail during the Jan. 1 reinsurance renewals. The only question is how much more softening will happen and how fast, leaders of Guy Carpenter said during a recent ...
Small Biz Customers Rank Erie, Cincy, PHLY Top Insurers; Industry Scores Flat
According to the latest J.D. Power survey of small business insurance customers, overall satisfaction levels are about even with last year, but a lower percentage say they will definitely stay with ...
5-Year Cost of Litigation Funding to Commercial Insurers Could Top $25B
"Are you being serious?" Christopher Swift, chair and chief executive officer of The Hartford, was taken aback by a question from an analyst during the company's second-quarter earnings call about ...
Human Responses: Did Jurors React to Musk in Damage Award Against Tesla?
During a webinar this week devoted to analyzing possible factors that fueled a $243 million jury verdict against Tesla, a lawyer not involved in the case fielded a question about Elon Musk's impact. ...
Digging Into Tesla’s Liability in Crash Case: Where’s the Data?
Two experts on autonomous vehicle safety recently dove into legal arguments and engineering factors that shaped last week's landmark jury decision against Tesla, at one point surfacing an important ...
Death of Pilots and MGA Burn: Execs Offer InsurTech Partnership Basics
Cultural fit, strategic alignment and systems compatibility are among the ingredients of successful carrier-InsurTech partnerships, according to a group of executives who spoke at a recent webinar ...