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Insurance

Ryan Specialty revamps transport after M&A; acquired talent to lead

Ryan Specialty Transportation Underwriting Managers takes life admitted & E&S in 50 states.   12 September 2022

Reinsurance

Exclusive: Bermuda’s delegated data reckoning: Is the market still in denial?

VIPR executive highlights the island’s mindset as an Achilles heel in the face of rapid MGA expansion.   18 June 2026

Reinsurance

Hannover Re eyes uplift in structured solutions as hard market drives greater cedant interest

Reinsurance hailed as a pillar of resilience, with 2022–23 hardening spurring demand for structured deals.   21 October 2025

Insurance

Insurtech’s effects become clearer

Insurtech and its potential for re/insurers was the main theme of the annual Baden-Baden Intelligent Insurer Roundtable sponsored by S&P Global Ratings. Executives representing reinsurers, service providers, cedants and brokers debated a number of key issues at the event.   24 October 2017

Reinsurance

Capital, credit and credibility: inside the BMA’s latest long-term insurance stress test

How 2024’s capital strength, liquidity and recovery planning held up under a 2008-style shock.   8 January 2026

Insurance

S&P questions logic of including insurers on systemic risk list

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has questioned the validity of including insurers on a global list of companies regarded as posing a systemic risk to the global financial system should they fail.   4 June 2014

Insurance

Only real insurers can turn InsurTech into a competitive advantage

While technology start-ups have the potential to provide very valuable information about customers, insurance companies are in better position to turn this data into a competitive advantage, according to a report from S&P Global Ratings.   23 November 2016

Insurance

Insurers will bear brunt of Harvey losses; downgrades possible

Based on the initial loss estimates relating to Hurricane Harvey, primary insurers - as opposed to reinsurers - will bear the brunt of the covered losses from Hurricane Harvey, according to S&P Global Ratings. But the rating agencies also stressed that some companies will be better able to absorb the losses than others.   29 August 2017

Insurance

UK cyber claims tripled in 2024, says trade body

Last year's record payouts were before string of 2025 high-profile attacks.   11 November 2025

Insurance

The power to move the market?

Five seasoned executives from the re/insurance industry discussed technology, talent, reserves and, of course, pricing in the context of potentially costly hurricane losses at the annual S&P Reinsurance Roundtable at the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous.   11 September 2017

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