Specialty
For QBE, a Focus on Profitable Underwriting Begins to Pay Off
QBE's restructuring over the last year has focused on exiting loss-making businesses and portfolios, while rigorously emphasizing profitable underwriting across the group. Good progress has been made ...
The Hartford, Eyeing Specialty Markets, Will Grab Navigators in $2.1B Cash Deal
The Hartford plans to snatch up The Navigators Group in a $2.1 billion cash deal that will boost its specialty insurance and reinsurance offerings while giving it a larger global reach. Plans call ...
W.R. Berkley Corp. Forms Berkley Healthcare; Piltch to Lead
W.R. Berkley Corporation announced the formation of Berkley Healthcare on Monday, explaining that the business will be made up of Berkley Healthcare Professional Underwriters and Berkley Healthcare ...
Think Tank Examines Sustainability of Cyber Insurance Market
Although cyber risk premiums have expanded sizably in recent years with loss ratios that compare favorably to other product lines, the danger of accumulation risks is a key concern for the market, ...
Argo Group’s Tech Investments Earn Kudos, Outlook Upgrade From S&P
Argo Group's investment in a digital infrastructure and new growth earned a vote of confidence from Standard & Poor's, which raised its outlook for the specialty insurer and reinsurer to positive ...
Insurers’ H1 Featured Spike in Downgrades, But Upgrades Still Came Out on Top: A.M. Best
Catastrophic weather events in 2017 helped spur an increase in rating downgrades for the U.S. property/casualty industry during the first half of 2018, according to an A.M. Best report. But the ...
Global Insured Catastrophe Losses Improve in H1: Swiss Re
Global insured losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters during the first half of 2018 were $20 billion, down from $30 billion in H1 2017, according to Swiss Re Institute's latest sigma ...
QBE Insurance Rises in an H1 Featuring Fewer Disasters
Australia's QBE Insurance Group Ltd posted a better-than-expected 4 percent rise in first-half profit, helped by fewer natural disasters in its biggest markets, sending its shares up almost 9 percent ...