Is Liability Reinsurance Headed for a Tumble?

In early June, Ken Brandt, chair, president and chief executive officer of TransRe, sounded the alarm on brewing troubles in the liability reinsurance market that could ...

What Liability Insurance Underwriters Should Know About Microplastics

Plastics. What was once the pithy career advice memorably offered in the movie "The Graduate" has some potentially noteworthy similarities to one of today's most ...

Underwriters Wary of PFAS Amid ‘Superstorm’ of Litigation, Regulation

As litigation and regulation increase around per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), insurance underwriting is tightening across lines. Insurance professionals who ...

Are Captives the Answer for Uninsured HOAs? Utah Opens Door

S&P GMI Performance Rankings: E&S Insurer Kinsale Takes Top Spot

A hard market, resilient domestic macroeconomic conditions and strong underwriting results have elevated specialty commercial carriers to the top of S&P Global Market ...

More PFAS Numbers: How Much Will It Cost?

A $165 billion high-range estimate of losses from PFAS litigation isn't the only number about cost burdens that casualty actuaries heard at the CAS Seminar on Reinsurance ...

Judgment Day

In May 2022, a judge at the U.S. District Court in Texas ruled that IBM had breached a 2015 licensing agreement signed with a competitor, BMC Software Inc., awarding BMC ...

Transactional vs. Transformational Leaders

Most insurance organizations are run by left-brain, rational, transactional leaders. Many are actuaries, underwriters, lawyers and former business line leaders. And that ...

U.S. E&S Growth Slower in 2023; Berkshire, AIG Top Premium Rankings

How Reinsurers Can Win in the Game of Volatility

Successful reinsurance businesses strive for profit stability while promising to reduce the volatility that their cedents experience.

But ...