Content from Susanne Sclafane
S&P Ups XL Rating to A+; 3Q Earnings Fall on Large Losses
Standard & Poor's boosted the financial ratings of the operating subsidiaries of XL Group to A+ on Tuesday, providing external affirmation of positive progress made over the last five years. ...
Reinsurers Target Regional Carriers as Alternative Capital Lures National Accounts
Regional and super-regional carriers may start getting more attention from reinsurers in advance of Jan. 1, 2014 renewals, a broker representative predicted recently. During the PCI Annual Meeting in ...
Top-Ranked Carriers Build Agent Satisfaction Into Culture: Consultant
Property/casualty insurance carriers that make their agents happiest—landing themselves repeatedly on top-10 rankings in agent surveys—are those that build the goal of doing so into their ...
Are Multiyear Policies the Answer For Flood? Behavioral Economics Meets Insurance
Buyers and sellers of flood insurance can benefit from a longer-term perspective, and long-term multiyear policies may be the key to reforming the current system, a Wharton School professor said last ...
Terror Risk Bond Market Unlikely, Says Swiss Re Americas CEO
Testifying before the House Committee on Financial Services on the future of the federal terrorism backstop Thursday, a reinsurance executive said the capital markets will not solve terrorism ...
TRIA Structure Will Change, But Renewal Expected: Analyst
After property/casualty insurance industry representatives presented testimony before the House Committee on Financial Services on the future of the federal terror backstop, a research firm predicted ...
XL’s Seraina Maag: Building a Culture of Collaboration
"Work-Outs" and "Rapid Results Initiatives" are now a natural part of the language of the U.S. insurance professionals working for XL Group, where a culture of collaboration has taken hold over the ...
Let’s Not Exaggerate Alt Re Impact: Munich Re’s Jeworrek
With catastrophe excess-of-loss reinsurance premiums making up less that less than 10 percent of its overall portfolio, the influx of capital from institutional investors into the reinsurance market ...