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Insurance

SiriusPoint improves combined ratio to 88.9% in Q1

Strong underwriting performance boosts profits, buoys strategy.   8 May 2026

Insurance

Specialty rate decreases accelerate, drop back to 2021 levels

Last two years have eroded half of rate gains seen during good years.   7 May 2026

Insurance

Nat cats deliver $61bn bill to insurers in H1; US storms dominate

Gallagher Re tally shows the second costliest US SCS hit on record behind 2023 at $37bn.   17 July 2024

Insurance

Growing pains and teenage tantrums: watching cyber risk come of age

As the cyber insurance market matures, it will need both standardisation and innovation to sustain its growth. But even those things won’t necessarily protect the market from some difficult times as the market develops.   14 May 2021

Insurance

Insurance sector M&A set to be very active in 2025, says MarshBerry

Buyer demand still very strong, says US consultancy, as deal numbers rise after decline.   28 January 2025

Reinsurance

Buffett questions rate adequacy as re/insurance units hit the brakes

Reinsurance written premium fell 7% Q4 after 5% slide in renewal-laden Q2.   24 February 2025

Insurance

Extratropical windstorm Nils to cost insurers €586m insured loss

Destructive wind footprint mirrors 2009’s Klaus, which delivered €1,6bn hit.   27 March 2026

Insurance

Property softening is offset by more demand: Beazley

Reinsurers and insurers are in sync on pricing, with both sets of carriers benefiting from improvements.   7 October 2025

Reinsurance

Global P&C reinsurers report record 2025 income, rate reductions to stay

Softening will ‘likely’ persist unless loss patterns shift sharply: Morningstar DBRS.   17 March 2026

Insurance

August storms lift Allstate catastrophe losses to $213m

Ten events drove losses, with three major wind and hail storms behind 70%.   19 September 2025

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