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22 April 2025Insurance

Professional liability rate inadequacy hits a slippery slope: Berkley

Select US professional liability lines have become "particularly competitive" with excessive softness now extending into cyber and with transactional liability turning outright “stupid”, the CEO of US carrier WR Berkley has argued.

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