After record 2011 first-quarter catastrophe losses that outpaced man-made and natural catastrophe losses for all of 2010, facultative reinsurance rates in many regions have begun to firm, and are set to increase through 2011, according to an Aon Benfield report.
With chatter about the next market turn heating up, it’s a good time to explore the impact on program business to see if there could be a replay of the gut-wrenching turmoil that left some program administrators (PA) out in the cold during the last soft-to-hard transition.
With chatter about the next market turn heating up, experienced niche-market participants don’t anticipate a replay of the gut-wrenching turmoil that left some program administrators out in the cold during the last turn. But that doesn’t mean program books won’t need to be mended or that some carrier retrenchment from...
MGAs and MGUs are targets for M&A because of their perception as "virtual insurance companies" and their ability to generate underwriting profits.
The New Jersey Assembly approved the final version of a bill that can make New Jersey a captive insurance domicile, but also removed a portion of the bill that would