Industry News
Florida-based FCCI Moving Into Excess and Surplus Market Oct. 1
Sarasota-based FCCI Insurance Group will soon start writing excess and surplus lines across much of the country, the carrier announced this week. Florida, Georgia and Texas insurance agents can ...
AM Best: Unfavorable Operating Performance Key Driver of Downgrades
Deteriorating market conditions and rising loss costs led to a 60 percent increase in rating downgrades of AM Best-rated U.S.-based insurers in 2023 compared with two years earlier, according to a ...
Akur8 Acquires Arius From Milliman
Akur8, an insurance pricing solution based on machine learning, announced that it has acquired Arius from Milliman Inc.
Arius, an ...
Clyde & Co: First-Half Carrier M&A Activity Falls to 15-Year Low
The first half of 2024 set a 15-year low for first-half insurance carrier mergers and acquisitions, according to Clyde & Co's latest Mid-Year Growth Report. The number of insurance carrier ...
Zurich, Marsh McLennan Call for Public Partnerships to Close Cyber Gaps
A new report from Marsh McLennan and Zurich titled "Closing the cyber risk protection gap" is calling for a closer collaboration between the insurance industry and the public sector as cyber ...
Brokerage Giants Aon, Marsh Unite In Call for Industry Aid to Ukraine
Highlighting the existence of blanket exclusions in reinsurance contracts for risks originating in the region impacted by the ongoing Russia Ukraine conflict, Aon and Marsh McLennan are jointly ...
Hard Market ‘Supercycle’ Likely to Be Prolonged: Lloyd’s CEO Neal
Now that the market has achieved a first-half profit of £4.9 billion with a combined ratio of 83.7—its best interim results in 17 years—does this mean the hard ...
Fitch Ratings Shifts Global Re Outlook to Neutral; Pricing Past Peak
Fitch Ratings announced that it shifted its outlook on the global reinsurance sector to neutral yesterday but the downward shift came with an expectation of continued profitability—and a forecasted ...