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• Will Cat Model Revision Up Inland Pricing, Lower Coastal Rates, S&P Asks

  By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  January 3, 2011

  The planned revision of a catastrophe model set for early spring 2011 could impact reinsurance pricing on Jan. 1, as well as property insurance prices in coastal and inland areas, a rating agency analyst said recently.

• Income Up, Premiums Down For U.S. Reinsurers

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  November 30, 2010

  After nine months, U.S. property and casualty reinsurers saw net income rise to $6.27 billion, nearly five times what the same group of reinsurers recorded during the same time in 2009.

• Income Up, Premiums Down For U.S. Reinsurers

  By Chad Hemenway, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  November 29, 2010

  After nine months, U.S. property and casualty reinsurers saw net income rise to $6.27 billion, nearly five times what the same group of reinsurers recorded during the same time in 2009.

• Foreign Firms Post Biggest U.S. Gains In Shrinking E&S Insurance Market

  By Susanne Sclafane, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  May 24, 2010

  Non-U.S. organizations vaulted up a premium ranking of writers of excess and surplus lines insurance in the United States in 2009, although industrywide U.S. E&S premiums shrank for the third straight year.