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21 November 2025Insurance

Capacity in E&S casualty climbs, can’t top social inflation challenge

E&S casualty is drawing an ever broader flow of capacity but is still unable to significantly slow a market still hardening from severity risks anchored in social inflation and nuclear verdicts, analysts at Gallagher's wholesale brokerage and delegated authority group RPS have claimed. 

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