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InsurTech will drive premiums lower: Noonan

Savings from efficiency gains and underwriting improvements brought by technology will be passed on to consumers in the form of cheaper...

Insurance Insider / Article / 3 days ago
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InsurTech

‘Between us and Lloyd’s, we’ve moved the market’: Duperreault

Thank you letters have been “pouring in” in to AIG from industry rivals grateful for the rate increases that have arisen from the insurer’s moves to turnaround its General Insurance...

Insurance Insider / Article / 10 days ago
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Topical Trends

Underwriters can’t be expected to take views on questions of capital supply and demand

A changing market brings a new dimension for underwriters...

Insurance Insider / Article / 10 days ago
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Rates

Citizens falls short of $1.58bn reinsurance target

Citizens has placed $1.45bn of reinsurance limit for its 2019/20 programme at a cost well below its budgeted premium outlay...

Insurance Insider / Article / 10 days ago
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Casualty treaty market pushes for rate as loss-cost trends worsen

US casualty treaty underwriters are beginning to enjoy the benefits of an uptick in primary rates, but there are concerns that pricing improvement is failing to keep pace...

Insurance Insider / Article / 12 days ago
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Casualty

Reinsurers squeeze Floridians but wide-scale repricing absent

Reinsurers will secure an incrementally better pricing outcome than the initial pricing offered by Floridian cedants, but the market resistance led by Nephila and...

Insurance Insider / Article / 16 days ago
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Rates

Talbot retreats from Lloyd’s China and from Australia

Talbot Underwriting will shut down its operation at Lloyd’s China and its Sydney office as it centralises regional underwriting at a Singapore hub..

Insurance Insider / Article / 23 days ago
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Strategy

Florida tightness again in focus as cat bonds price up and shrink

Cat bonds from Floridians American Integrity Insurance and Safepoint have underlined the tightness of the ILS market and added to the overall picture of a hardening cat market in the Sunshine State...

Insurance Insider / Article / 24 days ago
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Alternative Capital

Lockton revenue rises amid reinsurance push

Revenue at Lockton grew by 10.3 percent to $1.72bn during the past financial year to 30 April 2019, marking what the privately-held broker has described as its best year ever...

Insurance Insider / Article / 25 days ago
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Financial Results

Markel Catco offers no mid-year quotes as retro capacity dries up

Markel Catco is not offering mid-year capacity after investors controlling more than 90 percent of its $6bn+ of assets under management indicated that they wanted to redeem their money...

Insurance Insider / Article / 25 days ago
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Alternative Capital