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AIG Buys Reinsurance From Enstar Covering $400M of Potential Adverse Development
Bermuda-based Enstar Group Limited announced that one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries has agreed to provide AIG with protection against adverse development on the portion of Validus Re's loss ...
S&P Raises Reinsurance Sector View to Stable as Rates Keep Rising
S&P Global has raised its view of the global reinsurance sector to stable from negative, it said on Tuesday, due to higher reinsurance rates and increasing investment income, while rival Moody's ...
Billion-Dollar Satellite Risks Upending Space Insurance
Viasat Inc. has more than $1 billion of orbiting satellites in trouble, and space insurers are girding for market-rattling claims. The company's roughly $1 billion ViaSat-3 Americas satellite, ...
Idalia Rumbled Ashore as Cat 3, Lashing Tallahassee and Much of Florida and Georgia
Just when parts of the property-casualty industry thought it was safe to re-enter the Florida market, Hurricane Idalia made landfall closer to the heavily populated Tallahassee area than expected and ...
Chubb Loses Bid to Enforce D&O Coverage Exclusions in Opioid-Related Case
A federal judge in North Carolina has ruled against a Chubb subsidiary in its attempt to rid itself of defense-cost obligations in opioid-related litigation by enforcing two policy exclusions. ...
Reinsurers’ Cyber Rates Expected to Rise as They Seek to Regain Profitability: S&P
More cyber reinsurance rate increases can be expected as reinsurers seek to regain underwriting profits in their cyber portfolios, according to a report published by S&P Global ...
Hurricane Idalia Strikes Florida With Powerful Cat 3 Winds
Hurricane Idalia came ashore on Florida's west coast with destructive Category 3 winds, triggering blackouts and unleashing flooding rains and dangerous storm surge. Idalia's maximum sustained winds ...
Understanding the Impact of Recessions on Workers Compensation
Workers and employers in the U.S. have endured 17 recessions during NCCI's 100 years of operation. Recessions produce far-reaching consequences on the economy, and the extent of those impacts depends ...