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Alternative Risk Transfer
Markel CATCo Investment Management has implemented a specific loss reserve to cover the 2018 events hurricane Michael and typhoon Jebi and has warned over potential California wildfire losses and a loss creep from 2017 nat cat events. 22 November 2018
News
The risk transfer industry understands that more could be done to close the protection gap, and more risk pools linked to governments could help solve this problem, argues Laurent Montador of French reinsurer CCR, which is backed by the French government. 22 November 2018
Insurance
Commercial insurance pricing increased for the fourth consecutive quarter in the third quarter of 2018 by more than 1 percent, driven by property and financial and professional lines, according to the most recent Global Insurance Market Index compiled by Marsh. 22 November 2018
Insurance
AM Best has assigned a Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of B (Fair) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of “bb+” to UK-based Folgate Insurance Company. The outlook assigned to these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable. 22 November 2018
Insurance
Property/casualty insurer Liberty Mutual is realigning its excess casualty operations and increasing its capacity to $100 million. 21 November 2018
Insurance
The US insurance industry has only limited exposure to PG&E Corporation, the California utility whose equipment is being investigated as having a potential role in the deadly Camp Fire, according to AM Best. 21 November 2018
Insurance
Fitch Ratings sees ongoing pressure on underwriting margins and expects catastrophe claims to continue to undermine insurers’ operating stability. 21 November 2018
Insurance
Reinsurance broker Guy Carpenter & Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies, has appointed Ross Howard, chairman of JLT Re, to become vice chairman of Guy Carpenter. 21 November 2018
Insurance
Losses from the ongoing California wildfires will likely negatively impact fourth-quarter earnings of companies with material property exposure in the state, Fitch Ratings said. 20 November 2018
Insurance
Global premiums in non-life and life businesses are forecast to grow by around 3 percent annually in 2019 and 2020 while the expansion in emerging Asia will be three times higher, according to the latest Swiss Re sigma report. 20 November 2018
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