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Re/Insurance Communications Platform ‘fuse’ Launches
A communications platform called fuse has been launched for the global commercial insurance and reinsurance industry.
Fuse promises ...
Viewpoint: Get Ready Now for the Soft Market (Because It’s Coming)
While discussing soft market underwriting may seem ill-timed given current strong results and hard market conditions, there are worrying signs that underwriters are beginning to chase market share in ...
Client Needs Rediscovered at Reinsurance Rendez-Vous
One of the themes at this year's reinsurance Rendez-Vous de Septembre (RVS) was that reinsurers have rediscovered client need, client interest and have again started to put clients at the center of ...
‘Hard But More Manageable’ Jan. 1 Renewals; Little Relief on Retentions
The hard reinsurance market in property-catastrophe reinsurance isn't coming to an end at Jan. 1, 2024, but reinsurers are likely to deploy more of their capacity next year, broker executives said ...
When Will the Hard Reinsurance Market End?
Higher retentions on property-catastrophe reinsurance programs are here to stay going into next year's renewals, reinsurance brokers predicted recently.Related ...
Humans Driving High Levels of Weather Losses: Guy Carpenter
While 2023 may well turn out to be the warmest year on record, human activities that generate carbon gas emissions aren't the only ones driving spikes in weather-related insurance losses, a ...
Lockton Re: One-Size-Fits-All Approach to Cyber Reinsurance No Longer Works
A one-size-fits-all approach to cyber reinsurance is no longer suiting an increasingly specialized market, according to The Lockton Re Cyber Centre in a recent report titled, The All Risk Cyber (ARC) ...
MGAs and Fronting Companies: Exploring the New ‘Asset-Light’ Frontier
Premiums underwritten by U.S. managing general agencies not affiliated with insurance companies reached $33 billion in 2022, and fronting companies wrote another $13 billion in the same year, a new ...
Reinsurance Market Soft in 2025? Hard Market Party Still On for Now
Reinsurers are hoping the profitability party will last as reinsurance pricing and structural changes to tighten terms and conditions have increased returns to above the ...