Underwriting
Survey: Cyber Attacks + Terrorism Top Reinsurance Worries
Cyber attacks and terrorism may be shaping up as the big emerging risks reinsurers face in 2015. About 40 percent of industry respondents to a recent Guy Carpenter & Co. survey said cyber attacks ...
Hudson Insurance Acquires Surety Business Portfolio
Hudson Insurance Group has acquired the underwriting operations of Surety Partners of America, Northeast. As part of the transaction, Michael Blount and James Balzan will join the team at Hudson ...
Liberty Mutual Discloses Major Q3 Gains
Liberty Mutual Holding Company concluded its 2014 third quarter with another jump in net income, higher revenues, a new reinsurance agreement and more than $1 billion in debt raised to help ...
Allied World Makes Buy in Bid to Boost Its Specialty Coverage
Allied World Assurance Company Holdings is making an acquisition designed to boost its specialty coverage business involving trade credit and political risk. The Swiss property/casualty and specialty ...
An Arctic Blast Returns the P/C Industry to Winter Cat Risks
An arctic blast began to dump heavy snow in parts of the northern Rockies, Plains and the Great Lakes regions on Monday and meteorologists said temperatures are expected to plummet throughout the ...
Sunlight Drives Away the Shadows: The Value of Open Source
In its 20-plus years, catastrophe risk modeling had developed nearly insurmountable barriers to alternative views of risk. Except for the largest companies, insurers and reinsurers have had little ...
The Wealthy Take a Risk on Post-Hurricane Sandy Jersey Shore
When Hurricane Sandy roared through New Jersey two years ago, it not only tore up the shoreline. It also pushed out much of the middle class. From Ocean City to Toms River, one-story cottages and ...
Swiss Re’s P/C Reinsurance Unit Excelled in Q3
While the property/casualty reinsurance industry continues to be hammered by heavy competition and soft pricing, Swiss Re can celebrate its 2014 third quarter results. The Zurich company reported a ...