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Insurance
Insurers increasingly want their reinsurance to potentially give them a competitive advantage—and they expect their reinsurance brokers to innovate to achieve this, Mike Schnur, partner, TigerRisk Partners, told PCI Today. 29 October 2018
Insurance
US homeowners’ direct written premiums increased from $91 billion in 2016, to $94 billion in 2017, and could reach $96 billion in 2018 given rate activity through September, according to Aon’s Reinsurance Solutions’ annual Homeowners’ ROE Outlook report. 29 October 2018
Alternative Risk Transfer
The prevalence of alternative capital meant the industry’s response to the 2017 losses was very different from the past, with the new capital that entered the industry behaving in a way that was transactional and short-term—and almost desperate in some instances. 28 October 2018
Insurance
AmTrust at Lloyd’s (ATL) has appointed Lucy Forcey as senior underwriter of North American property catastrophe treaty, a new line of business for ATL Syndicate 1861. 26 October 2018
Insurance
Bermuda-based AXIS Capital has experienced lower catastrophe losses in the third quarter of 2018, improving the combined ratio in both the insurance and reinsurance segments and allowing the group to return to profit. 25 October 2018
Insurance
Asta, a third-party managing agent at Lloyd's, has appointed Paul Jardine and Bob Stevenson to the board of Asta Managing Agency as independent non-executive chairman and independent non-executive director, respectively. 25 October 2018
Insurance
AM Best has upgraded the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings to “a+” from “a” of Bermuda-based Lancashire Insurance Company and its affiliate in the UK. 25 October 2018
Insurance
Suppliers are at risk of having insufficient trade credit insurance as some British firms, such as retailers and manufacturers, stockpile goods amid mounting concerns of a no-deal Brexit, according to Marsh, an insurance broking and risk management solutions provider. 25 October 2018
Insurance
Bermuda-based Aspen Insurance Holdings has reduced its loss in the third quarter of 2018 as the company experienced a lower catastrophe impact. 25 October 2018
Insurance
Florida-based Universal Insurance Holdings is passing the expected $300-350 million gross losses and loss adjustment expenses from hurricane Michael almost entirely to its reinsurance panel. 25 October 2018
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