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Is the property & casualty insurance economic picture better from the outside looking in, or the inside looking out? A panel of outside experts, followed by a panel of insurance company CEOs, considered this question at the Property/Casualty Insurance Joint Industry Forum, held Jan. 13 at New York's Waldorf-Astoria.

Is the property and casualty insurance economic picture better from the outside looking in or the inside looking out? A panel of outside experts, followed by a panel of insurance company CEOs, found the picture mixed, with all lines facing rate pressure.

A slump in reinsurance prices is playing to the strengths of the biggest global reinsurers, while piling pressure on smaller competitors to diversify or consolidate.

Assicurazioni Generali, Italy's biggest insurer, said on Tuesday it had completed the sale of its U.S. life reinsurance business to France's Scor for total gross proceeds expected to be $910 million.

Reinsurer Scor has lodged a complaint with the European Commission about what it considers Caisse Centrale de Reassurance's unfair dominance of France's natural disaster reinsurance market.

Reinsurer Scor has lodged a complaint with the European Commission about what it considers Caisse Centrale de Reassurance's unfair dominance of France's natural disaster reinsurance market.

A group of 18 reinsurers belonging to the Reinsurance Association of America reported a combined 2013 first-half net income of just under $4.8 billion, up from $3.6 billion for the same companies a year ago, as improved underwriting income more than offset a slight drop in net premiums written.

A group of 18 reinsurers belonging to the Reinsurance Association of America reported a combined 2013 first-half net income of just under $4.8 billion, up from $3.6 billion for the same companies a year ago, as improved underwriting income more than offset a slight drop in net premiums written.