Reinsurance
InsurTech NY Is Sponsoring Virtual Industry Job Fair on Oct. 29
InsurTech NY will be holding what it is billing as the first dedicated virtual job fair and networking event for InsurTech startups and the insurance industry. Scheduled for Oct. 29, 2020, the event ...
PartnerRe Rejoins Largely Unchanged Reinsurance Top 10: A.M. Best
The 10 largest global reinsurers of 2019 represent a paragon of stability, according to A.M. Best's new market segment report. That's largely because so little changed from the year before. Nine of ...
Hurricane Laura Losses Could Have Been Worse, Modelers Agree
Although Hurricane Laura was the strongest cyclone to strike Louisiana since 1856, damages were limited because it made landfall in a relatively sparsely populated area and the highest winds were ...
China Re Group Enjoyed Robust Growth for H1 2020
China Re Group Corp enjoyed rapid growth in premiums and steady profitability in the first half of 2020 despite the pandemic. Overall, gross written premiums in the first half of 2020 increased 20.5 ...
Envelop Risk Paves the Way as InsurTech Reinsurance MGA
Managing general agents for reinsurance are rare. Reinsurance MGAs that write cyber are even rarer, which is the world that Envelop Risk inhabits. "We think we're the only InsurTech firm involved in ...
Reinsurance Experience in Africa, Asia Sets MGA Tempo Apart
Tom Bailey, executive director of Tempo Underwriting, has a theory about what it takes to build a business based on the reinsurance MGA model. "For a reinsurance MGA to be successful and to have a ...
Finding Niches: Reinsurance MGAs Carving Out Special Market Slices
Reinsurance managing general agents are a rare breed as opposed to their more prevalent insurance-focused counterparts. The successful reinsurance MGAs have a niche, a focus. What they have in common ...
Social Inflation and the Risk of D&O-GL Clash
Social inflation is the primary explanation offered for the need to increase general liability and excess casualty premiums in the last two years. With social inflation, injured parties are more ...