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By Susan R. A. Honeyman |
October 24, 2011
Experts say factors contributing upward movement on mid-year reinsurance rates will continue to drive rates higher in 2012.
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By Susan R. A. Honeyman |
October 20, 2011
Almost every discussion of 2012 reinsurance rates for U.S. property risks touches on major changes in catastrophe models—both the recently released Risk Management Solutions (RMS) version 11.0 U.S. Hurricane Model; and, to a lesser extent, AIR Worldwide’s revisions released last year but only now making their way through the system....
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By Susan R. A. Honeyman |
October 20, 2011
Almost every discussion of 2012 reinsurance rates for U.S. property risks touches on major changes in catastrophe models—both the recently released Risk Management Solutions (RMS) version 11.0 U.S. Hurricane Model; and, to a lesser extent, AIR Worldwide’s revisions released last year but only now making their way through the system....
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
September 12, 2011
Ample capacity within the reinsurance market indicates no broad-based hardening in the insurance marketplace, but the three major insurance brokers differ over what direction the industry will be taking in the future.
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
December 20, 2010
The United States continued to be a source of insured catastrophe losses this year despite avoiding a hurricane landfall.
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
December 17, 2010
The United States continued to be a source of insured catastrophe losses this year despite avoiding a hurricane landfall.
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By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com |
December 16, 2010
The United States continued to be a source of insured catastrophe losses this year despite avoiding a hurricane landfall.
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By Staff Writer |
November 11, 2010
Insurers and reinsurers should prepare for higher rating agency scrutiny of catastrophe risk in Asia, and many companies will have to make substantial
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By Staff Writer |
October 12, 2010
While the U.S. will "almost certainly" continue to be the prime destination for "Supercat" events--events that cause insured losses of at least $10 billion--Aon Benfield is warning insurers that Asian countries could also see such events.
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By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com |
January 11, 2010
Reinsurers recapitalized significantly in 2009, but while pricing was down for the latest Jan. 1 renewal season as a result, underwriting remained disciplined in a softening market characterized by one top broker as "orderly."
