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Reinsurance Demand Rises, Along with Flight to Quality, Say Industry Experts
Not only has reinsurance buying increased, but there also has been a flight to quality reinsurers by ceding insurance companies, according to several reinsurers and brokers in recent webinars held in ...
Catastrophe Losses Driven Higher by Secondary Perils – And Climate Change
Secondary perils, exacerbated by climate change, are driving catastrophe insurance losses, warn a growing chorus of reinsurers and brokers. Indeed, broker Aon reveals that more than 60% of 2020's ...
Independent Brokers Will Remain Competitive by Adding Value to the Insurance Transaction
The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the need for brokers to add value to the insurance transaction, according to Toby Esser, chairman of AFL Insurance Brokers, a London-based independent broker. ...
The Big Re: What You Missed
Launched during the week of what would have been the Reinsurance Rendez-Vous de Septembre, Big Re, Carrier Management's hub for reinsurance, aims to provide complete reinsurance coverage of, by and ...
ITC Promises to Maximize Networking With One-Month Virtual Conference Delay
InsureTech Connect has postponed its annual (now virtual) fall conference by one month, four days before it was scheduled to go live. ITC, which produces one of the world's largest insurance ...
What Distinguishes This Market? Here’s Lockton Re Leaders’ Insights
Lockton Re's Tim Gardner, global CEO, and Ross Howard, global chairman, have been through their share of hard markets. Like many in the reinsurance business, they agree no two hard markets are ...
Arcadian Risk Capital Launches New Bermuda Underwriting Operation
Arcadian Risk Capital is launching as a new underwriting operation based in Bermuda that will initially underwrite excess casualty and professional lines insurance. John Boylan, a 30-year veteran of ...
How Insurance Industry Might Respond if a Pandemic Is an Act of Terror
Imagine a scenario where COVID-19 was manufactured in a lab and was released as an act of terror. Tracey Gibbons, senior vice present, Underwriting, at Third Point Re, considers this possibility ...