Unfinished business in property; casualty needs attention

Hannover Re heads towards the 1/1 renewals with an eye on sweeping up bits of unfinished business in US property while digging deeper into issues in the increasingly concerning casualty segment, Axel Freiboth, Hannover Re’s managing director & chief underwriting officer for treaty reinsurance in North America, told Intelligent Insurer.

Neither of those things should mean significant change for the German reinsurer, however. Its approach is more subtle and nuanced—seeking incremental improvements as opposed to major changes in the Hannover Re North American book.