TigerRisk News
How to Unlock ‘Trapped Limits’ in Your Reinsurance Program
An insurance company that purchases three $100 million layers of property-catastrophe coverage may find it is short of coverage if three $200 million events occur, even though the total coverage ...
TigerRisk Responding to Retro Demand With New Bermuda Office
Citing demand from a "new group of sophisticated retrocessional buyers," TigerRisk Partners announced the opening of a new Bermuda office on Monday. In a statement announcing the new office, Rod Fox, ...
TigerRisk Names Bartell to Lead UK Retro Practice
TigerRisk Partners, the reinsurance broking and risk/capital management firm, announced Wednesday that Martin Bartell has been named head of the company's UK-based retrocessional and specialty ...
Consolidating Reinsurance Towers to Gain Efficiencies
In addition to raising capacity and lowering reinsurance prices, the influx of new capacity from the capital markets is driving more flexible reinsurance terms and efficiencies that primary insurers ...
Bring on the Competitors, Reinsurance Brokers Say
If you ask Frank Harrison, chief executive officer of New York-based reinsurance intermediary Holborn Corp., whether he worries about competitors coming up behind his firm, you'll hear an unusual ...
Heard at PCI: Re Brokers See Changes Beyond Rate Drops at Jan. 1
Insurance carriers are not sitting around looking forward to lower-priced reinsurance contracts on their Jan. 1, 2014 renewals. For some, the renewal negotiations are done. Others are locking in ...
Reinsurers Target Regional Carriers as Alternative Capital Lures National Accounts
Regional and super-regional carriers may start getting more attention from reinsurers in advance of Jan. 1, 2014 renewals, a broker representative predicted recently. During the PCI Annual Meeting in ...