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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. ...
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 ...
No Rendez-Vous, No Problem
Reinsurance executives who would normally be heading to the Rendez-Vous de Septembre in Monte Carlo are missing the experience but carrying on business just fine without the in-person interactions in ...
COVID Not a Capital Event for Global Reinsurers—Yet
While analysts at Standard & Poor's Global Ratings agree with the popular assessment that COVID-19 is an earnings—not a capital—event, COVID plus catastrophes could be a different story. In a ...
Some Reinsurers Will Try Pandemic Exclusions for Casualty at 1/1
Whether they are convinced that they absolutely need them or not, some reinsurers aim to try to put pandemic exclusions into casualty reinsurance contracts next year, a reinsurance broker ...
AM Best Keeps Stable Outlook for Reinsurance Industry
The tailwinds propelling the global reinsurance sector are sufficient impetus for the ratings agency AM Best to retain its stable outlook for the reinsurance industry, despite multiple challenges. ...
Hardening Re Market Doesn’t Look Like Mid-1980s or 2005
Reinsurance price hikes and capacity changes are not reminiscent of prior hard markets, participants said in quasi-Rendez-Vous meetings, with some going as far to say that current price changes are ...