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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
November 10, 2011
The last time buffer liability insurance was in vogue, Ronald Reagan was in the White House. But now, the need for a buffer layer of excess coverage is emerging back into the structure of risk-sharing within the excess and umbrella insurance world—a sign that the market is transitioning from soft...
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
November 10, 2011
The last time buffer liability insurance was in vogue, Ronald Reagan was in the White House. But now, the need for a buffer layer of excess coverage is emerging back into the structure of risk-sharing within the excess and umbrella insurance world—a sign that the market is transitioning from soft...
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By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com |
July 21, 2011
Two-thirds of the top 100 insurance groups saw net premiums written increase in 2010, but combined ratios worsened for just about as many, according to the latest midsummer NU’S Top 100 P&C Ranking. NU looks past $17 billion in reserve takedowns for the industry, a $5 billion boost for Chartis,...
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
June 30, 2011
The soft market remains firmly entrenched on the casualty side of the reinsurance business. But the property and catastrophe marketplace is a much different—and more unsettled—story.
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June 30, 2011
In mid-June Allied World Assurance Co. Holdings AG and Transatlantic Holdings Inc. announced a $3.2 billion merger deal, creating a global specialty insurer and reinsurer operating in 18 countries and on six continents.
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By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 6, 2011
Using his firm’s scoring method to gauge insurers’ financial strength, ALIRT Principal David Paul notes that specialty-insurer composite scores are less volatile than composites for the entire commercial-insurance industry over the long term.
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By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 6, 2011
In spite of competitive conditions in the specialty program business segment, an insurance industry analyst doesn’t see any flashing red alerts signaling major troubles ahead for program carriers so far in 2011.
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By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com |
May 6, 2011
Jeremy Hitzig, CEO of Distinguished Programs and 2011 president of the Target Market Program Administrators Association, describes his firm’s strategies for achieving growth and efficiency, as well as ongoing initiatives at TMPAA.
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By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 15, 2011
In spite of competitive conditions in the specialty program business segment, an insurance industry analyst doesn’t see any flashing red alerts signaling major troubles ahead for program carriers so far in 2011.
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
April 11, 2011
For the agents and brokers writing commercial-lines insurance for Main Street clients, business remains tough—but some tepid signs of improvement have begun, tentatively, to appear.
