Industry News
RenaissanceRe Expands Global Re Operations By Launching U.S. Platform
RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. announced the formation of RenaissanceRe Underwriting Managers U.S. LLC, a specialty reinsurance agency based in Connecticut, on Thursday. The agency will support the ...
Commercial Lines Rate Increases Slowed in Q2: The Council
Commercial property/casualty pricing continued to gently creep upwards in the second quarter, however signs of some moderating of increases also surfaced. The Council of Insurance Agents & ...
ILS Issuance Just Short Of Record For Second-Quarter 2013; Is Casualty Next?
Tallies of catastrophe bond issues for the first-half have been coming in from reinsurers and brokers over the last two weeks, with the numbers all suggesting that 2013 could be a record year of ...
ACE CEO Greenberg Cautions on Wall Street Draining Reinsurance Pond
ACE Limited Chief Executive Officer Evan Greenberg said the influx of Wall Street capital into the reinsurance industry is pressuring rates and that he is prepared to cut sales of backstop coverage. ...New York Widens Probe Into Insurers’ Compliance with Iran Sanctions
Zurich Insurance Group AG is among companies being questioned by New York's insurance regulator in a widening investigation into compliance with a law imposing sanctions against Iran, a person ...
First-Half Insured Disaster Losses $20B Globally: Impact Forecasting
Insured losses from natural disasters around the globe reached $20 billion in the first six months of 2013, but still fell 20 percent below last year's first-half figure of $25 billion, according to ...
ACE Promotes Talbott to President of North American Property, Specialty Lines
The ACE Group promoted Derek Talbott to division president, North America Property & Specialty Lines. Talbott succeeds Paul McNamee, who has been named deputy president of ACE's Asia Pacific ...
ACE CEO Greenberg Looks to Mexico to Grow as Brazil Slows
Evan Greenberg, the chief executive officer of Ace Ltd., said the insurer is looking beyond Latin America's largest economy as he seeks growth in the region. "It's obviously slowed down a lot in ...