Excess & Surplus Lines

Rate stability returns to E&S casualty but nuclear verdicts persist
25 November 2025   Capacity improves, yet steep casualty pricing still lingers amid social inflation litigation pressures.

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‘No COVID-19 impact on Q2 underwriting results’ but pandemic has hit investment income, firm reports.
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Softening rates in the mainstream reinsurance market have driven players to seek growth in alternative lines. Focusing on one of those lines—excess and surplus—Intelligent Insurer looks at new entrants seeking a part of the action and asks whether this market has the sustainability for increased capacity.
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A mixture of economic incentives and new regulation has brought change to the US excess and surplus lines market. We ask which companies won and lost in 2010, and who will gain in 2011.
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6 November 2025   General liability now coming on line, proving Lancashire’s anti-cyclical chops.
4 November 2025   Boost comes on top of E&S casualty flows that may be slowing: Bowhead.
4 November 2025   Underwriting overhaul, cost discipline drive sharp improvement; CoR falls 41.5 pts.
31 October 2025   Unutilised capacity at the Atlantic’s season end could get ‘really aggressive.’
29 October 2025   Bermuda re/insurer sees rates bottoming out in D&O and cyber.
24 October 2025   Revenues grow even faster as Kinsale backs away from reinsurance cessions.
24 October 2025   The E&S pure play carrier can still beat E&S market growth by 20 pps.
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