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28 April 2025Insurance

Rising cost of US wholesale excess & umbrella pushing insureds out of market

The unending rate hardening for wholesale excess and umbrella coverage has pushed carriers to the wall, forcing select market participants to play with captives, multi-year programmes and forms of heightened self-retentions, analysts at the CRC Group wholesale brokerage have claimed.

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