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Global Insurance Rates Continue Their (Moderated) Fall: Marsh
Global insurance renewal rates fell for the 17th consecutive quarter in the second quarter of 2017, according to Marsh's Q2 2017 Global Insurance Market Index. Despite the continuing decline, Q2 ...
Reinsurers Now Much More Likely to Report Natural Disaster-Related Underwriting Loss: S&P
Things could get rougher for global reinsurers if annual natural catastrophe claims keep moving closer to the long-term average, Standard & Poor's said in a new report. It turns out that upward ...
Post-Hurricane Andrew, Miami Is Increasingly Vulnerable to Catastrophic Storm Damage: Swiss Re
Almost 25 years have passed since a Category 5 hurricane struck south of Miami, and the city's vulnerability to catastrophic storm damage has grown exponentially, according to a new insurance ...
Smaller Businesses Less Happy With Their Insurance: J.D. Power
Not all small businesses are the same when it comes to customer satisfaction with their commercial insurance. There are actually widening satisfaction gaps among small businesses of different sizes, ...
Aon Benfield Is Latest Broker to View Cat Bond Issuance as Hitting Historic Highs
Another insurance broker has concluded that insurance-linked securities are reaching record issuance levels. Aon Securities, Aon Benfield's investment banking division, determined that catastrophe ...
Data Breaches Caused by Employee Error Still a Huge Problem: Beazley
Hacking and malware attacks including ransomware attacks continue to be the leading cause of breaches, accounting for 32 percent of the 1,330 incidents that insurer Beazley's in-house Breach Response ...
M&A, Despite Market Risks, Will Continue at Slower Pace: S&P Prediction
Property/casualty insurers and reinsurers continue in 2017 to seek scale in a tough market through mergers and acquisitions. The pace has slowed considerably, however, and Standard & Poor's sees ...
ILS Issuance Landed at $6.3B in Q2, a Record
Insurance-linked securities (ILS) issuance reached a record-breaking $6.3 billion in Q2 2017, continuing the trend from the first quarter of the year, according to a report by Willis Towers Watson ...