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Insider In Full: Stand-off in Lloyd’s as casualty XoL reinsurers push for rate hikes

Lloyd’s writers of US excess of loss (XoL) casualty treaty are in a stand-off with cedants in their 1 January renewal discussions as pressure for higher pricing weighs on negotiations...

Insurance Insider / Hosted articles / 9 days ago
Alternative Capital

Industry in a US medmal claims crisis: TransRe’s Sapnar

Casualty rates and T&Cs should improve for 24-36 months, the executive said...

Insurance Insider / Article / 29 days ago
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Casualty

AmTrust restructures professional indemnity division

AmTrust has appointed Steven Moore as lead underwriter for professional indemnity (PI) in a reshuffle in which Russell Newell moves to head up AmTrust’s PI MGA Collegiate...

Insurance Insider / Article / 1 month ago
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P I (E&O)

Willis Re hires Lockton Re MDs Jones and Cole

Willis Re has hired Anthony Jones and Brian Cole from Lockton Re as it looks to build out its professional liability capabilities in the US, The Insurance Insider can reveal...

Insurance Insider / Article / 2 months ago
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Market Moves

Ex-JLT PI partner Harrison-Sleap joins McGill

Andrew Harrison-Sleap, formerly a senior partner and head of the construction professional indemnity team at JLT, has joined broking start-up McGill & Partners...

Insurance Insider / Article / 2 months ago
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Construction

AmTrust wins dismissal of securities suit over accounting claims

A securities class action against AmTrust Financial Services over alleged accounting irregularities has been thrown out, as a US judge found the plaintiffs...

Insurance Insider / Article / 3 months ago
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Law

Lloyd’s not afraid to ‘hang’ those guilty of misconduct: Carnegie-Brown

Lloyd’s chairman Bruce Carnegie-Brown said the Corporation was not afraid to “hang” those found guilty of misconduct as it cracks down on inappropriate behaviour in the market...

Insurance Insider / Article / 3 months ago
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Directors & Officers

IQ Autumn 2019

The talk on the terraces and under the parasols of Monte Carlo is bound to focus on the decidedly mixed picture at recent treaty renewals...

Insurance Insider / Report / 3 months ago
Accident & Health / Contingency

Darag inks deal for Zurich architects’ PI legacy book

Legacy acquirer Darag has agreed to acquire a EUR180mn ($198.4mn) run-off portfolio of German architects’ and engineers’ professional indemnity business from Zurich, it announced today...

Insurance Insider / Article / 3 months ago
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Mergers & Acquisitions

Social inflation could turn casualty market: WRB chairman

An uptick in jury awards stemming from social inflation is likely to “drive significant trend and hardening” in the casualty and professional indemnity markets, WRB chairman William...

Insurance Insider / Article / 3 months ago
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Casualty

Insider London

28th January 2020, London