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Say its name too loud and it might disappear—the onset of a hard market has been whispered about for some 12 months. Even if rates are hardening, is the industry clutching at straws when underlying exposures also seem to be increasing, and with so much capacity waiting in the wings? Intelligent Insurer investigates. 4 September 2019
Insurance
Major Swiss insurer Zurich is working with accelerator Startupbootcamp to influence the strategy of insurtech, group head of business transformation Antony Elliott told Intelligent Insurer. 14 June 2017
Insurance
XL Catlin has opened a reinsurance unit to provide facultative and treaty reinsurance across Africa. 18 July 2016
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With the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) due to sunset in September, now is the time to embrace and facilitate the development of a private flood market, say Nicole Austin and Dennis Burke of the Reinsurance Association of America. 27 June 2017
Insurance
Property and casualty insurer Hallmark Financial Services has launched a specialty property unit. 19 August 2015
Alternative Risk Transfer
As the pandemic stress test continues, re/insurers are preparing for what comes next, including expectations of a hardening market. This is driving a growing trend for equity raises, with some building war chests and some taking advantage of new opportunities, while others look to protect their credit rating in a fight for survival. Intelligent Insurer reports. 12 June 2020
Insurance
Endurance Global Weather, part of Endurance Specialty, has completed an innovative, multi-year wind hedging transaction that protects Meridian Energy Australia, an Australian electricity supplier, against fluctuations in its earnings due to the weather. 11 February 2016
Insurance
Reinsurance rates will increase almost across the board in the aftermath of losses from hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria as reinsurers “refill the buckets” in anticipation of future cat losses, Axel Freiboth, managing director, North America, Hannover Re, told PCI Today. 16 October 2017
Insurance
The US property/casualty market must focus on a number of long-term challenges that threaten insurers and reinsurers, according to David Sampson, the president and chief executive officer of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI). 16 October 2017
Insurance
The recent hurricanes have turned the spotlight on to the importance of flood modelling, which has come a long way in a short amount of time, Pete Dailey, vice president and head of global flood models at RMS, told PCI Today. 16 October 2017
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