Specialty
D&O Prices Plummeting: Record-Level Q1 Drop for Decade
The year-over-year decline in D&O insurance prices for the first quarter of 2023 is greater than any prior drop over a comparable period in more than a decade, historical information presented in ...
Canopius Has Management Shake-Up With 3 Execs Exiting
Canopius Group, the London-based global specialty re/insurer, has had a management shake-up, with three executives exiting the company.
Claim Professionals’ Perspective: D&O Market Correction Coming
The current directors and officers market is out of balance with insurers facing a soft underwriting landscape just as the volume and severity of claims are rising. The head-scratching imbalance was ...
Different Works: RLI Posts Sub-80 First-Quarter Combined Ratio—Again
As property/casualty insurers preannounce catastrophe loss estimates that will dent first-quarter 2023 bottom lines almost daily, RLI Corp. reported a 68 property combined ratio with a 50 percent ...
Courts Mixed on PFAS Coverage Litigation
A handful of coverage lawsuits have been decided over the application of pollution exclusions to deny coverage for PFAS claims, and rulings have been split on whether ...
D&O Story for 2022: Prices Down; Loss Ratios Up; Top Carriers Ranked
Although analysts at Fitch Ratings estimate that combined ratios for the directors and officers liability line remained below breakeven in 2022, with competition fueling price declines and the ...
Too Soon for ‘All Clear’ in D&O Insurance Market as Banks Fall
D&O insurers breathed a short sigh of relief when the U.S. government pledged to protect depositors of failed Silicon Valley Bank last week. But it wasn't necessarily business as usual for ...
Lloyd’s 2022 Underwriting Results ‘Strong’ Despite Bottom-Line Red Ink
Lloyd's reported an interim full-year 2022 loss before tax of $947.6 million (£800 million ) as a result of investment losses of approximately $3.6 billion (£3 billion). This compares to a profit ...