Reinsurance
Executives On The Move at QBE, SCOR and Hamilton Insurance Group
A veteran executive from Chubb is joining QBE Insurance as managing director of its Asia Pacific region, effective Sept. 1. Mark Lingafelter's new responsibilities include continued execution of the ...
2015 Could Be Worst Year on Record for U.S. Wildfires: Munich Re America
When measured in terms of acres burned rather that insured losses, 2015 could go down in the record books as the worst wildfire year, a meteorologist from Munich Re America said last week. Mark Bove, ...
S&P, Fitch Differ on Whether Reinsurance Price Declines Are Moderating
Two of the P/C industry's ratings entities – Fitch and Standard & Poor's – differ as to whether they see a moderation of ongoing reinsurance price declines. Fitch sees the downward trend ...
S&P: Reinsurance M&A Will Follow Berkshire Hathaway Model
Reinsurance M&A activity should continue well into 2016 as competitive pressures continue unabated, Standard & Poor's asserted in a new industry report. The ratings entity said that the ...
Conference Rewind: IIS Global Insurance Forum
One of the main events for insurance and reinsurance executives last quarter was the International Insurance Society's Global Insurance Forum, which took place in New York City in June. More than 500 ...
Progressive Insurance Survey: Millennials Want Fulfilling IT Jobs More Than Higher Pay
Progressive Insurance discovered one clue about millennials that could make it easier for carriers to bring them on board in the future: they're looking for fulfillment over money. That's ...
Fitch: U.S. P/C Insurer Results Mostly Unchanged in First-Half 2015
U.S. property/casualty insurers' operating performance remained largely unchanged in the first half of 2015 compared to the same period a year prior, with $25.5 billion in aggregate operating ...
A Strengthened Tropical Storm Erika Heads Toward Florida
Tropical storm warnings were in effect on Wednesday for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands as Erika, the fifth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, closed in on the Eastern Caribbean and ...