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Global P/C Markets Falling Short on Sustainable Returns: Swiss Re Sigma
Global property/casualty insurance markets are underperforming and have a way to go before producing sustainable returns, Swiss Re said in its latest sigma report. "Most markets remain in a phase of ...
The Fine Art of Underwriting Through Soft and Slightly Harder Market Cycles
Twenty or so years ago, a London market marine underwriter declared he was going golfing one particular afternoon because he had reached his annual capacity level. That was an underwriting model ...
Munich Re, Swiss Re, Hannover Re, SCOR Are Keeping Pricing Discipline in Tough Market: Fitch
The four largest European reinsurers – Munich Re, Swiss Re, Hannover Re and SCOR – have largely maintained pricing and policy terms without a significant drop in their business volumes, despite ...
Burand’s State of P/C Insurance Industry, Part 1: Agencies Facing Paradigm Shift
The property/casualty insurance and group benefits industry is changing faster than ever—or at least faster than any time in any reader's history. Many factors are responsible for the change. Part ...
Many Pressures Will Spur More Insurance M&A Deals in 2017: Conning
Insurance industry M&A activity should swell through the rest of 2017 in all areas, with multiple factors driving the trend Conning said in a new report. "The property/casualty sector should ...
A Medical Professional Liability Capital Cushion Is Also a Barrier to Profit
For all the changes in health care over the past 10 years, the principal challenges facing medical professional liability (MPL) insurance have mostly remained the same since its crisis in the ...
Reinsurance Capacity Still Outpacing Demand Growth
Capacity continues to outpace the growth of reinsurance demand despite insurers' continued efforts to optimize their view of reinsurance as capital and expand into growing lines of business and ...
A Soft Reinsurance Market May Be Hitting Bottom: A.M. Best
Some observers believe the bottom of the reinsurance market may be in sight because brokers are having greater difficulty filling out underpriced programs and further concessions in terms are ...