30 December 2016Insurance

Wake-up call: higher cat losses a warning, say reinsurance execs in 2016 look back

The higher levels of catastrophe losses in 2016 could represent something of a wake-up call for the re/insurance industry after a number of years of benign loss activity – especially against a backdrop of a continued soft market in most lines of business, according to a number of senior executives interviewed by Intelligent Insurer.

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