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The rating agencies have started to react to the news that Liberty Mutual will acquire Ironshore – just over a year after Fosun International, China’s biggest conglomerate, acquired the remaining 80 percent stake in the Bermuda-based property/casualty insurer. 6 December 2016
Insurance
Italian motor insurance premiums are likely to rise in 2017 for the first time in years as low investment returns push insurers to target underwriting profits, according to Fitch Ratings. 6 December 2016
Insurance
Liberty Mutual has agreed to acquire Ironshore – just over a year after Fosun International, China’s biggest conglomerate, acquired the remaining 80 percent stake in the Bermuda-based property/casualty insurer. 5 December 2016
Insurance
The UK regulatory should be wary of deviating too far from Solvency II in the way it regulates UK insurers, despite having the potential flexibility to do so following its exit from the European Union, S&P Global Ratings has warned. 5 December 2016
Insurance
The sector outlook for German life insurance remains negative due to the challenging operating environment, Fitch Ratings has said in a new report called ‘2017 Outlook: German Life Insurance - Low Interest Rates Put Capital Ratios Under Pressure’. 5 December 2016
Insurance
A combination of sustained low investment yields and pressure on profits as a result of regulatory scrutiny into how insurers treat their customers, has prompted Fitch Ratings to maintain its negative sector outlook for UK life insurance in 2017. 2 December 2016
Insurance
Rating agency AM Best has added nine insurers to its 2015 list of impaired insurers in its latest update on the long-term impairment rates of AM Best rated US-domiciled insurance companies. 1 December 2016
Insurance
Further declines in profitability and earnings driven by competitive market conditions has prompted rating agency Fitch to revise its sector outlook for the US property/casualty insurance sector to negative from stable. 1 December 2016
Insurance
The US National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has tested the transfer of flood risk to the private reinsurance sector, paving the way for a large-scale privatisation of US flood risk. While the potential business for reinsurers is significant, it is likely to be a long and complex process. 30 November 2016
Insurance
US property/casualty insurers can expect losses from third-party liability asbestos claims to increase 18 percent to $100 billion, according to an AM Best report. 29 November 2016
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