Articles

Insurance

Increased new business formation feeds into wholesale and E&S markets

Hardening market especially evident in excess liability, property and D&O.   14 October 2020

Insurance

Insurtech Oscar secures $375m from Google parent Alphabet

New York-based Oscar Health, a technology-focused health insurance company, has secured $375 million from Google’s parent company Alphabet.   24 August 2018

Insurance

Kingstone reduces quota share of reinsurance treaty

Kingstone Insurance Company (KICO), a wholly-owned subsidiary of property/casualty insurer Kingstone Companies, has reduced its personal lines quota share treaty ceding percentage to 10 percent, down from 20 percent, effective July 1, 2018.   24 August 2018

Insurance

Liberty appoints Heinesch to develop its Swiss cyber book

Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM) has appointed Roland Heinesch as new cyber underwriter in its Zurich office, citing that the company is “seeing a real increase in demand” across the country.   16 October 2018

Insurance

Insurers in the US should prepare for there being no terror backstop: Guy Carp

The market should brace itself for some disruption if the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) is not extended in 2020—and carriers should definitely assume that changes to the terrorism backstop will be made, and prepare accordingly.   21 October 2019

Insurance

San Francisco M7.0 earthquake would damage more than a million homes

A hypothetical magnitude 7.0 earthquake epicentered in Oakland would damage more than a million homes and less than 10 percent of total residential losses would be insured because of a low residential earthquake insurance take-up in the Bay Area, according to a scenario developed by the US Geological Survey (USGS).   19 April 2018

Insurance

London insurance market warned 'turbo charge contingency plans' after Brexit delay vote

Last night the UK Parliament voted in favour of requesting an extension to Article 50 and consequently a delay to Brexit beyond the 29 March deadline.   15 March 2019

Insurance

AXA XL appoints new CUO of London Market wholesale

Re/insurer AXA XL has appointed Dan Curran as chief underwriting officer responsible for the company's property & casualty London Market Wholesale business.   15 October 2018

Insurance

FedNat estimates Hurricane Florence loss at $4m

FedNat currently estimates that its aggregate gross liabilities as a result of Hurricane Florence will be $4 million based on preliminary post-landfall catastrophe model estimates.   18 September 2018

Insurance

China Life names successor to CFO who stepped down in August

China Life Insurance Company has appointed Zhao Lijun as chief financial officer (CFO). His nomination has been approved by China’s Insurance Regulatory Commission – CIRC.   25 November 2016

Not finding what you're looking for, please try resetting your applied search and filters,
or try the full site search.