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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 ...
Re Market ‘Past Convergence’ With Capital Over Half-A-Trillion
Global reinsurer capital, which had reached a peak of $515 billion at the end of first-quarter 2013, still stood above the half-trillion mark at June 30, dropping slightly to $510 billion, according ...
P/C Loss Reserve Cycles Are Real: AM Best Analysis
The idea that carriers release loss reserves when property/casualty insurance markets soften and strengthen them in hard markets is more than a theory, according to a new analysis by rating agency ...
Commercial Insurance Rate Hikes Continuing; WC Profit Ahead in ’14: Moody’s
Moody's expects property/casualty commercial insurance rate hikes to continue for the balance of the year, making 2013 the third straight full year of rising rates for commercial lines carriers, ...
Top 10 Non-Life Reinsurers: A.M. Best Ranking
There is only one new name on the latest ranking of the top 10 global non-life reinsurers, with China Reinsurance (Group) Corp. replacing Transatlantic Reinsurance Co. on a list extracted from an ...
Is Third-Party Capital Wave Overshadowing Re Market? A.M. Best Weighs In
Although the true reinsurance appetite of third-party capital may not be as big as recent industry headlines suggest, the likely result of the actual influx, when combined with existing capital, will ...