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Hiscox launches $5mn consortium in hard D&O market

Hiscox has launched a new directors’ and officers’ consortium with a maximum capacity of $5mn, Insurance Insider can reveal...

Insurance Insider / Article / 14 hours ago
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Directors & Officers Launches/New Products

Year-end capacity crunch looms in ‘hardest of hard’ London D&O market

The London directors’ and officers’ (D&O) market is facing a tumultuous end to the year as exhausted income, soaring rates and the withdrawal of crucial...

Insurance Insider / Article / 3 days ago
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Directors & Officers Rates

Airline insurers push 20%-25% rate rises but premium levels still threatened

The airlines market is treading a fine line at its key renewals between October and December as it balances the need to increase rates with supporting financially distressed clients...

Insurance Insider / Article / 6 days ago
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Aerospace Rates

Chubb imposes minimum 100% D&O rate hike on UK SMEs

Chubb is to hike UK SME management liability premiums by a minimum of 100% for both renewal and new business, irrespective of claims record, Insurance Insider can reveal...

Insurance Insider / Article / 8 days ago
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Directors & Officers Rates

Insider In Full: Munich Re, Swiss Re and the multi-billion Covid-19 BI question

Munich Re and Swiss Re are taking a lead on pressing the case that contract terms will militate against successful Covid-19 BI claims on many excess-of-loss (XoL) cat treaties...

Insurance Insider / Hosted article / 8 days ago
Claims & Losses Covid-19 (Coronavirus)

Cyber market competition steadying as rates improve: PartnerRe

Competition in the cyber insurance market is levelling off, with evidence that rates are starting to increase, according to PartnerRe’s third annual cyber survey...

Insurance Insider / Article / 9 days ago
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Cyber Rates

FCA pushes to stop GI ‘price walking’ in final report

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has proposed a range of measures to tackle the general insurance “loyalty penalty” in its final report on pricing practices in home and motor insurance...

Insurance Insider / Article / 9 days ago
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Motor (Commercial) Rates

Property rate environment ‘isn’t near where it needs to be’: Ascot’s Zaffino

Ascot Group president Jonathan Zaffino has said that some parts of the (re)insurance market still have more rate hardening ahead, as underwriters push for rate adequacy...

Insurance Insider / Article / 13 days ago
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Property - International Property - North America

Maloney: Industry cannot plan for future on foundation of weak returns

The (re)insurance industry must get back to making sustained and robust returns if it is to move forward in terms of technology, product and talent, Lancashire CEO Alex Maloney has said...