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Insurance
Lloyd’s insurer Chaucer has expanded its marine practice with the addition of Lonham Insurance Underwriters, a specialist cargo and freight liability underwriting team. 16 October 2015
Alternative Risk Transfer
Despite a multitude of other catastrophes in 2018, the single biggest loss event for reinsurers was so-called loss creep from 2017’s Hurricane Irma. Dirk Lohmann of Schroders examines what went wrong and what the industry must learn. 28 February 2019
Insurance
The natural catastrophes which struck North America represented the most important development in the non-life re/insurance sector in 2017, according to executives interviewed by Intelligent Insurer for our year-end questionnaire. 29 December 2017
Insurance
The implications of retro and reinsurance rates moving from a soft to a hard market and how fast such increases could be reflected by cedants in their own tariffs on a direct basis will be the main talking point at SIRC this year, according to Laurent Montador, deputy CEO of CCR Re. 31 October 2017
Insurance
In the wake of recent US nat cat losses, the perceived value of insurance-linked securities (ILS) collateral over a rated “promise to pay” model will rise if reinsurers have failed to use modelling and retrocession to better manage their tail risks, according to Willis Towers Watson’s Q3 ILS market update. 25 October 2017
Insurance
Notwithstanding the nat cat events of 2017, the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) is confident that its balance sheet is adequately set up to absorb the risk of high payouts in years of multiple extreme events, Isaac Anthony, CEO of CCRIF, told Baden-Baden Today. 25 October 2017
Insurance
The increasing number of captive domiciles in the US – with around 40 states now adopting some form of legislation – is good for the industry, giving prospective captive owners more choice and keeping the older domiciles such as Vermont, South Carolina and Hawaii on their toes. 8 August 2017
News
Federated National Holding Company lowered its reinsurance spend in the second quarter of 2017; the decrease was mainly due to the expiration of a Florida-only property quota share but the company did buy additional excess-of-loss reinsurance. 8 August 2017
Insurance
Mexico’s Fund for Natural Disasters (FONDEN) has returned to the insurance-linked securities (ILS) markets to secure coverage against natural catastrophes for the first time since 2012. 7 August 2017
Insurance
The casualty market in the US remains competitive for reinsurers, with rates still very soft in several lines of business and loss trends increasing. But there remain pockets of opportunity and rate decreases will likely slow in the aftermath of the recent hurricane losses. 16 October 2017
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